“You’ve got to make your own worlds. You’ve got to write yourself in.” — Octavia E. Butler Butler became a groundbreaking author and Afrofuturist icon, emerging as a powerful voice in science fiction in the 1970s. She used her work to challenge perceptions of identity, sexuality, belonging, hierarchy, community, and history while often exploring what it truly means to be human. Rather than mimic the styles of white male authors who dominated the field, she used Afrocentric themes in stories abou
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As Democracy Now! marks 25 years on the air, we are revisiting some of the best and most impactful moments from the program's history, including one of the last television interviews given by the visionary Black science-fiction writer Octavia Butler. She spoke to Democracy Now! in November 2005, just three months before she died on February 24, 2006, at age 58. MORE: bit.ly/3pQF9ip | Democracy Now!
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