#Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories From Social Justice Movements

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Appendix 3: Further Reading

Though we have used direct quotes and endnotes as a way to acknowledge our intellectual debts and sources throughout the book, we often found ourselves wanting to include more of the currents and perspectives that have shaped this work. With that in mind, we have assembled some articles, zines, books, films, interviews, and stories for those who want to go further with some of the ideas explored in each chapter, providing links to online versions where possible. This list is diverse, and elements of these texts are in tension with each other and our own work, and we think they are all worth approaching in the spirit of critical and affirmative reading. We also recommend checking out work by everyone we interviewed and cited, and we are planning to create a fuller list on our website: joyfulmilitancy.com

Chapter 1: Empire, Militancy, Joy

Zainab Amadahy, Wielding the Force: The Science of Social Justice, Smashwords Edition, 2013 (non-fiction book).

Anonymous, “The Tyranny of Imagery, or, How To Escape the Zoopraxiscope,” Hostis 2, 2016 (essay).

adrienne maree brown and Walidah Imarisha, eds., Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, AK Press 2015 (collected short fiction).

Colectivo Situaciones, “On the Researcher Militant,” 2003 (essay), http://eipcp.net/transversal/0406/colectivosituaciones/en.

Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation, Autonomedia, 2004 (non-fiction book).

John Holloway, Change the World Without Taking Power, Pluto Press, 2005 (non-fiction book).

Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider, Crossing Press, 1984 (collected essays).

Brian Massumi, “Navigating Movements” interviewed by Mary Zournazi, https://archive.org/stream/InterviewWithBrianMassumi/intmassumi_djvu.txt.

P. M. bolo’bolo, Autonomedia, 1985 (non-fiction book), http://sfbay-anarchists.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/bb_3.pdf.

Stevphen Shukaitis, Imaginal Machines: Autonomy & Self-Organization in the Revolutions of Everyday Life, Minor Compositions, 2009 (non-fiction book), http://www.minorcompositions.info/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/ImaginalMachines-web.pdf.

Chapter 2: Friendship, Freedom, Ethics

Taiaiake Alfred, Wasase: Indigenous Pathways of Action and Freedom, University of Toronto Press, 2005 (non-fiction book).

Anonymous, “Robot Seals as Counter-Insurgency: Friendship and Power from Aristotle to Tiqqun (blog post), https://humanstrike.wordpress.com/2013/08/27/robot-seals-as-counter-insurgency-friendship-and-power-from-aristotle-to-tiqqun/.

Richard Day, Gramsci is Dead: Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social Movements, Between the Lines, 2005 (non-fiction book).

Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend, Europa, 2012 (novel).

Knowing the Land is Resistance, “Towards an Anarchist Ecology” (blog post/zine), https://knowingtheland.com/2014/01/28/new-zine-collecting-towards-and-anarchist-ecology/.

Maria Mies, Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour, Zed Books, 2014 (non-fiction book).

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, “Decolonial Love: Building Resurgent Communities of Connection,” 2014 (video recorded talk), http://emmatalks.org/session/leanne-simpson/.

Harsha Walia, “Decolonizing Together,” Briarpatch, 2012 (essay), https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/decolonizing-together

Irvin Yalom, The Spinoza Problem: A Novel, Basic Books, 2013 (novel).

Chapter 3: Trust and Responsibility as Common Notions

carla bergman and Corin Brown, Common Notions: Handbook Not Required, 2015 (documentary).

Gustavo Esteva and Madhu Suri Prakash, Grassroots Post-Modernism: Remaking the Soil of Cultures, Zed Books, 1998 (non-fiction book).

Matt Hern, Everywhere all the Time: A New Deschooling Reader, AK Press, 2008 (non-fiction anthology).

John Holloway, “Greece: Hope Drowns in the Reality of a Dying World, or Does it?” (video lecture), http://www.johnholloway.com.mx/2015/10/05/greecehope-drowns-in-the-reality-of-a-dying-world-or-does-it/.

Walidah Imarisha, Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption, AK Press, 2016 (creative non-fiction).

The Invisible Committee, To Our Friends, Semiotext(e), 2015 (non-fiction book),

Margaret Killjoy, “Take What You Need and Compost the Rest: an introduction to post-civilized theory,” Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness, 2010 (zine), http://www.tangledwilderness.org/take-what-you-need-and-compost-the-rest/.

Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, Milkwood, 2015 (non-fiction book).

Victoria Law, “Against Carceral Feminism,” Jacobin, 2014 (essay), https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/10/against-carceral-feminism/.

Leanne Simpson, ed., Lighting the Eighth Fire: The Liberation, Resurgence, and Protection of Indigenous Nations, Arbeiter Ring, 2008 (non-fiction anthology).

Raúl Zibechi, Dispersing Power: Social Movements as Anti-State Forces, 2010 (non-fiction book).

Chapter 4: Stifling Air, Burnout, Political Performance

Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle, 1967 (non-fiction book)

Michel Foucault, “Preface,” in Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, 1972 (non-fiction book).

Jo Freeman, “Trashing: the Dark Side of Sisterhood,” 1976 (essay),

http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/trashing.htm.

INCITE! Women of Colour Against Violence, eds., The Revolution Will Not be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex, South End Press, 2009 (non-fiction anthology).

Institute for Precarious Consciousness, “We Are All Very Anxious,” 2014 (zine), https://cloudfront.crimethinc.com/pdfs/We-Are-All-Very-Anxious.pdf.

Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality, 1887 (non-fiction book),

http://www.inp.uw.edu.pl/mdsie/Political_Thought/GeneologyofMorals.pdf.

Andrew X, “Give Up Activism,” 2009 (essay / zine),

Chapter 5: Undoing Rigid Radicalism

Asam Ahmad, “A Note on Call-Out Culture,” Briarpatch, 2015 (essay), https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/a-note-on-call-out-culture.

Kelsey Cham C., “Radical Language in the Mainstream,” Perspectives on Anarchist Theory 29, 2016 (essay), https://anarchiststudies.org/2017/03/09/radical-language-in-the-mainstream-by-kelsey-cham-c/.

CrimethInc., “Against Ideology?,” 2010 (essay),

http://www.crimethinc.com/texts/atoz/ideology.php.

scott crow, “In a moving river nothing can ever be set in stone: A letter for insurgent dreamers,” (essay) in Emergency Hearts, AK Press, 2015,

Michel Foucault, “Preface,” in Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Viking Press, 1977,

http://cnqzu.com/library/Philosophy/Deleuze,%20Gilles%20and%20Felix%20Guattari-AntiOedipus.pdf.

Jamie Heckert “Anarchy and Opposition,” (essay) In Queering Anarchism: Addressing and Undressing Power and Desire, AK Press, 2012.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, “Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading, Or, You’re so Paranoid, You Probably Think This Essay Is about You,” (essay) in Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity, Duke University Press, 2003,

Alexis Shotwell, Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times, University of Minnesota Press, 2016 (non-fiction book).

amory starr, “Grumpywarriorcool: What Makes Our Movements White?” (essay) in Igniting a Revolution: Voices in Defense of the Earth, AK Press, 2006, http://trabal.org/texts/grumpywarriorcool.pdf.

Nicholas Thoburn, “Weatherman, the Militant Diagram, and the Problem of Political Passion,” New Formations 68, 2009 (academic article), http://sfbay-anarchists.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Thoburn-Weatherman-the-Militant-Diagram-and-the-Problem-of-Political-Passion.pdf.

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Hollow

Hollow est une nouvelle futuriste, racontée depuis la place des handiEs. Dans un futur idéal, quelle place nous est donnée ou plutôt laissée ? Quand la plupart des utopies proposées ignorent complètement une partie de son humanité, difficile en tant que crip de se projeter dans un futur radieux et paisible. C’est l’histoire d’une résistance face au validisme et à l’eugénisme, l’histoire d’une communauté mise à l’écart qui continue de construire ses îlots de paix.

Découvrir puis traduire cette nouvelle de Mia Mingus a été une petite aventure en elle-même. Cette histoire est belle et importante parce qu'elle alimente nos imaginaires de solidarité, de débrouille et de soin crip. Elle est aussi difficile car la cruauté qui y est dépeinte n'est pas éloignée de nos réalités.

À l’heure où le débat sur l’euthanasie revient en force, et menace directement l’existence des personnes handies et malades, elle est plus que jamais d’actualité.

Comme tous les textes de ce blog avant lui, Hollow est disponible à la commande à prix libre, pour permettre de soutenir cette activité. Pour cela, il suffit de m’envoyer un message privé en précisant sa commande, le prix qu’on veut payer, son mail & selon le mode d’envoi : une adresse. Vous pouvez aussi le retrouver dans sa version imprimable ici (en pleine page) ou ici (en format cahier).

[Traduit de l’anglais (Canada) par Emma Bigé & Harriet de G. Originellement publié dans adrienne maree brown & Walidah Imarisha (dir.). Octavia’s Brood. Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, Chico (CA), AK Press, 2015. Publié en France dans la revue Multitude 94, Justice handie pour des futurs dévalidés.]

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Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements is a fantastic collection of short scifi stories written by a variety of social justice activists

Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson is so intricately plotted, I really enjoyed the world building in it, the back of book blurb says "The rich and privileged have fled the city, barricaded it behind roadblocks, and left it to crumble. The inner city has had to rediscover old ways — farming, barter, herb lore. But now the monied need a harvest of bodies, and so they prey upon the helpless of the streets. With nowhere to turn, a young woman must open herself to ancient truths, eternal powers, and the tragic mystery surrounding her mother and grandmother. She must bargain with gods, and give birth to new legends."

Dread Nation by Justina Ireland is a YA alternative historical fiction zombie novel in which the American Civil War is interrupted by a zombie apocalypse, and a young Black woman must find her way in a world where the living may be more dangerous than the undead. (it's the first of a duology)

Everfair by Nisi Shawl is a steampunk alternative history, which explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's disastrous colonization of the Congo if the native populations had adopted steam technology as their own. (also part of a series)

The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline is a great ya dystopian book about a world where people have lost the ability to dream and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America's Indigenous people, and it is their marrow that holds the cure for the rest of the world. But getting the marrow, and dreams, means death for the unwilling donors.

The Getaway by Lamar Giles is a very intense YA dystopian horror that takes place in the future, in which a teen boy and his family work and live at a Disney-esque resort, which provides safety from the upheaval in the outside world.... until the trouble in the outside world gets worse and the most rich members of the board and up moving in and locking the resort down, leaving the families who live & work on the resort at the mercy of the wealthy board owners who control it.

Not a book and not exactly scifi (although some of the stories are scifi) and not always anti-colonial (but a lot of the stories have anti-colonial themes) , I really love the Nightlight Podcast hosted by Tonia Ransom, which is a podcast of horror stories by Black writers and performed by Black actors

not fiction, but semi-related nonfiction I'd rec is Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction by Sami Schalk

PLEASE for the love of the universe read anti-colonial science fiction and fantasy written from marginalized perspectives. Y’all (you know who you are) are killing me. To see people praise books about empire written exclusively by white women and then turn around and say you don’t know who Octavia Butler is or that you haven’t read any NK Jemisin or that Babel was too heavy-handed just kills me! I’m not saying you HAVE to enjoy specific books but there is such an obvious pattern here

Some of y’all love marginalized stories but you don’t give a fuck about marginalized creators and characters, and it shows. Like damn

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This whole set up!!!! We would have gone with OcTEAvia from @calabashtea....and we love this!

Check out Octavia’s Brood at you local #library or at https://sistahscifi.com/products/octavias_brood | www.sistahscifi.com | @sistahscifi.

Reposted @the.smashbot.diaries Drinking some Blood Moon @evilteacompany and reading OCTAVIA'S BROOD: SCIENCE FICTION STORIES FROM SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENTS which is a collection of short stories edited by @adriennemareebrown and @walidahimarisha. These speculative fiction stories are inspired by Octavia Butler who is one of my favorite authors!

Really enjoying these stories so far and continuously awed by the spark that OB brought to the world through her writing and how many other storytellers have been inspired by her.

Thankful for quiet, relaxation, books and tea at the moment.🍁

Hope everyone celebrating a long weekend is having a good time and happy Friday otherwise!

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BOOKS I READ IN 2018 ✧ octavia’s brood: science fiction stories from social justice movements edited by adrienne maree brown + walidah imarisha

Whenever we try to envision a world without war, without violence, without prisons, without capitalism, we are engaging in speculative fiction. All organizing is science fiction. Organizers and activists dedicate their lives to creating and envisioning another world, or many other worlds—so what better venue for organizers to explore their work than science fiction stories?

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[Image description: Two screencaps from the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Far Beyond the Stars", showing Benny Russell sobbing and speaking. The subtitles read "You can pulp a story, but you cannot destroy an idea. That future I created it, and it's real!"]

"And for those of us from communities with historic collective trauma, we must understand that each of us is already science fiction walking around on two legs. Our ancestors dreamed us up and then bent reality to create us." Walidah Imarisha, Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories From Social Justice Movements

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Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements edited by adrienne maree brown and Walidah Imarisha

Whenever we envision a world without war, without prisons, without capitalism, we are producing speculative fiction. Organizers and activists envision, and try to create, such worlds all the time. Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown have brought twenty of them together in the first anthology of short stories to explore the connections between radical speculative fiction and movements for social change. The visionary tales of Octavia’s Brood span genres—sci-fi, fantasy, horror, magical realism—but all are united by an attempt to inject a healthy dose of imagination and innovation into our political practice and to try on new ways of understanding ourselves, the world around us, and all the selves and worlds that could be. The collection is rounded off with essays by Tananarive Due and Mumia Abu-Jamal, and a preface by Sheree Renée Thomas.

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Octavia E. Butler's Kindred Becomes FX Series

Octavia E. Butler's Kindred has been adapted into a drama series for FX. The late science fiction writer's novel about time travel and antebellum slavery through the eyes of a young Black woman will be presented in eight episodes. The announcement was made Monday at New York Comic Con on a panel featuring executive-producer Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and cast members Micah Stock, Gayle Rankin, Sheria Irving, David Alexander Kaplan, Austin Smith, Mallori Johnson and Sophina Brown. Johnson plays Dana Brown, a young Black woman in Los Angeles who has relocated with aspirations of becoming a successful writer but must first address secrets from her family's past. 

Butler became famous in the '90s with her Parable series and in 1995 she became the first science-fiction writer to win a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. The Parable Of The Talents also won the esteemed Nebula Award. Her stories are recognized for bringing a keen analysis of contemporary society through the eyes of people on the margins with a vision for the future. Butler's work has continued to be celebrated since her 2006 passing with an asteroid, a moon of planet pluto and scholarships in her name. In 2015, Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements an anthology of short stories centered on social justice and inspired by Butler was edited by Walidah Imarisha and Adrienne Maree Brown. 

Kindred will debut on December 13th via Hulu and soon after be available on Star+ in Latin America and Disney+ under the Star banner in all other territories.

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Included on the list:

Octavia's Brood - A Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, eds. Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown;

and Dark Matters - A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora, edited by Sheree Renee Thomas. Dark Matters includes the essay "Racism and Science Fiction" by Samuel Delany, along with his story "Aye and Gomorrah."

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Formgiving to Feminist Futures as Design Activism (Maryam Heidaripour)

Design methods and processes were created to help designers "objectively" understand user needs so that they could construct preferred situations and solutions without taking their own subjective experiences and biases into consideration.

This led designer to distance themselves from ethical and political values, wich resulted in a diesengaged design culture.

Design embedded in modernist and patriarchal values: Western, enlightnment era dualistic structures.

The dominant modes of design knowledge and frameworks are incabale of envisonnning preffered situations towards more socially just future  (ALL THESE WORDS SHOULD BE DEFINED)

Design activism: use an intervention in order to generate change in the system (WHAT IF THE INTERVENTION IS HOW THE DESIGN PROCESS CHANGES ME)

a question on how Design activists engage in criticizing dominant power relations while at the same time affirming the dominant politics through their design contributions.

Design & time

Design determines courses of action, and materialize them to change the status quo

ideas about possible futures are internal representations of the minde. designers externalize thos ideas and give them a coherent representation.

Formgiving to futures: Design increases awareness and understanding about possible futures across a wider audience

Rather than merely educating people about future possibilities , design invites to create and experience alternative futures

Three interrelated weays to construct ideas about the future (source: Levitas* LOOK IT UP)

Design exploration: speculative design, design fiction and scenario building . Attempt to show alternatives to hegemonic social orders through a provocative or critical intervention

Dator: Ideas about the future determines how we live in the present

HOW TO VISUALIZE TIME THROUGH AN EXHIBITION

Although ideas about the future are not applicable for immidiate action, they inform us and create a culture of through that gradually impacts our current practises and social orders - DESIGN CHANGES ME! - Through the construction of everyday practises, the practise of formgiving to alternative futures could destabilize dominant power relations.

"This work must not just be about resisting injustice, but also giving shape to waht is possible." Costanza-CHeock 2017 LOOK UP SOURCE

IMPORTANCE OF POSITIONALITY: Design to envision "preferable" futures might also be dangerous' designers may reinforce widespread systematic biases in selecting particular alternatives over others and replicate existing social inequalities.

Bell hooks: FIND SOURCE: a commitment to feminism is a commitment to reorganizing society towards an equal and inclusive world free of sexism, racism, homophobia, economic inequality and violence.

SOURCE TO LOOK INTO: Octavia Brood: Science fiction stories from Social Justice Movements

Alternatives stories challenge the dominant narrative

Soft power of alternative narratives bring into focus certain matters-of-concern frm a feminist point of view and destabilizes the socio-political order as an activist practice

"one is not born a woman, but becomes one" Donna HArraway

SITUATEDNESS: what is known reflects the situation or perpective of the knower

"There is nothing about being female that naturally bidns women ...........Gender, race or class consciousness is an achievement forced on us by the terrible historical experience of the contradictory social realities of patriarchy, colonialism and capitalism "Donna Harraway 1991

Elizabeth Grosz: "Are there ways of occupying space and plroducing places that somehow contest, challenge and problematize the dominant modelities of organization, of space and place?"

LOOK AT REF* Prado de O. MArtins : "Feminist speculative design: a strategic approach in suing artifacts to provike relfection on priviledge and address issues of sustemic gender violence and discrimination"

"Dominant modes of design knowledge are based on binary and hierarchical frameworks based on modernist and patriarchal structures and, thereby, excluding and ignoring other modes of thinking." Grosz 1999

Design activists need to expand the scope of their thinking by integrating theories that can bring into the conversation the ignored, the excluded and the eccentric.

Three ways defining a feminist practice of formgiving to futures as fashion of design activism:

Archeological : embed ideas of today's political, social and economical system

Ontological: human nature and related values

Architectural: imagination of potential alternative scenarios for the future

temporalities

Subjectivities

Hack Abilities

ways of distancing ourselves from the present

Temporal distance: going back and forth with time

Epistemologicla distance: seeing the issue frm a different perspective

Dominant narratives put the future in tewmporal distance, a singular and universal destination that comes through logical order

Feminists question the linearity and directionality of time: Alternative epistemological understanding of time

REDSTROM 2013: Products do not need to exist for a long time to be considered sustainable

myth of objectivity has ahs a widepspread impact on design methods and processes, leading to an apolitical design culture

the importance of subjective and embodied experiences as members of multiple social worlds (STAR ​​1990) and the critical reflection on our own partiality and fallibility in creatinf universal solutions

Activists need to co-create the process of formgiving to possible futures to bring up accessibility and inclusiveness in design interventions

Appropriation and modification are key qualities of multiple futures

Collective work of formgiving to futures through the continued participation of diverse people who are empowered to have a say in their own futures

hackability = involving deveral people

Design activists should develop new methods and resources to gain deeper solidarity in relation to the context and participants.

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Afro-Futurist Reading List Vol 2.

Afro Futurism Reading List Vol 1:

Afro Futurism Reading List Vol 2:

Black Speculative Fiction Breakdown by Genre

African Fantasy (early myths and fables from the continent): Forest Of A Thousand Deamons: A Hunter's Saga by Daniel O. Fagunwa The Palm Wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts by Amos Tutuola Simbi and the Satyr of the Dark Jungle by Amos Tutuola The Brave African Huntress by Amos Tutuola Feather Woman of the Jungle by Amos Tutuola Ajaiyi and his Inherited Poverty by Amos Tutuola The Witch-Herbalist of the Remote Town by Amos Tutuola

Utopia (alternate histories written during the jim crow & antebellum eras): Blake Or The Huts Of Africa by Martin Delany Imperium In Imperio by Sutton E Griggs Light Ahead For The Negro Edward A Johnson One One Blood by Pauline Hopkins Black No More by George Shuyler Lord Of The Sea by MP Sheil

Space Opera (far future sci fi worlds of interplanetary travel): Nova by Samuel R Delany Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand by Samuel R. Delany Binti Trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor An Unkindness Of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson Rayla 2122 Series by Ytasha Womack Trouble On Triton by Samuel R. Delany Babel 17 by Samuel R Delany Empire Star by Samuel R Delany The Galaxy Game by Karen Lord The Best Of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord Ancient Ancient by Klini Iburu Salaam Escaping Exodus by Nicky Drayden Ascension: Tangled Axon by Jacqueline Koyanagi Teleportality by T Cisco Nadine's Bible Seris by T Lindsey-Billingsley Nigerians In Space Series by Deji Bryce Olukotun

Aliens (alien encounters): Lilith's Brood Trilogy by Octavia Butler Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor Rosewater Trilogy by Tade Thompson The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbell The Wave by Walter Mosley

Dystopia (oppressive futures and realities): Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjie Brenyah Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi War Girls Series by Tochi Onyebuchi Sunshine Patriots by Bill Campbell Gunmen's Peace by Milton J Davis Dragon Variation by T Cisco

Experimental (literary tricksters): The Ravicka Series by Renee Gladman The Freedom Artist by Ben Okri The Structure Of Dante's Hells by LeRoi Jones The House Of Hunger by Dumbudzo Marachera Black Sunlight By Dumbudzo Marachera Yellow Back Radio Broke Down by Ishmaeel Reed The Last Days Of Louisiana Red by Ishmaeel Reed The Sellout by Paul Beatty Koontown Killing Kaper by Bill Campbell The African Origin Of UFOs by Anthony Joseph Quantum Black Futurism(Theory & Practice Volume 1) by Rasheeda Philips by Rasheeda Philips Spacetime Collapse: From The Congo to Carolinas Spacetime Collapse II: Community Futurisms by Rasheeda Philips consent not to be a single being trilogy by Fred Mot

Post-Apocalyptic (worlds falling apart): The Purple Cloud by MP Shiel Dhalgren by Samuel R Delany The Parable Series by Octavia Butler Brown Girl In The Ring by Nalo Hopkinson

Dying Earth (far future post-apocalyptic worlds + magic):

The Broken Earth Trilogy by NK Jemisin The Einstien Intersection by Samuel R. Delany The Jewels Of Aptor by Samuel R. Delany The Fall Of The Towers Trilogy by Samuel R. Delany Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorofor The Book Of Phoenix by Nnededi Okorofor The Prey Of Gods by Nicky Drayden

Alternate History (alternate timelines and what-ifs): Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed Everfair by Nisi Shawl The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates The Insh'Allah Series by Steven Barnes Ring Shout by P Djelia Clark A Dead Djinn In Cairo by P Djelia Clark The Black God's Drum by P Djelia Clark Washington Black by Esi Edugyan Pimp My Airship: A Naptown By Airship Story by Maurice Beaudice The Dream Of Perpetual Motion by Dexter Palmer Pym by Matt Johnson, Dread Nation Series by Justina Ireland From Here to Timbuktu by Milton J Davis

High Fantasy (magical kindoms and high adventures): The Neveryorn Series by Samuel R. Delany Black Leapard Red Wolf by Marlon James The Deep by Rivers Solomon & Clipping Imaro Series by Charles R. Saunders The Children Of Blood & Bone by Tomi Adeyemi The Children Of Virtue & Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi The Sorcerer Of The Wildeeps by Kai Ashai Washington A Taste Of Honey by Kai Ashai Washington Beasts Made Of Night Series by Tochi Onyebuchi A Place Of Nights: War & Ressurection by Oloye Karade, Woman Of The Woods: A Sword & Soul Epic by Milton J Davis Temper by Nicky Drayden They Fly At Ciron by Samuel R. Delany Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman The House Of Discarded Dreams by Etakterina Sedia

Magic Realism (literary naturalism with surreal, dreamlike, and mythic imagery): The Echo Tree & Other Stories by Henry Dumas The Kingdom Of This World by Alejo Carpentier General Sun My Brother by Jacques Stephen Alexis The Famished Road Series by Ben Okri The New Moon's Arms by Nalo Hopkinson The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson Montaro Caine by Sydney Portier Mama Day by Gloria Naylor Redemption In Indigo by Karen Lord Mem by Bethany C Morrow

Urban Fantasy (modern citybound fantasy): The City We Became by NK Jemisin  Sister Mine by Nalo Hopkinson The Chaos by Nalo Hopkinson The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead Blue Light By Walter Mosley Fire Baptized by Kenya Wright

Time Travel (stories unstuck in time): Kindred by Octavia Butler Version Control by Dexter Palmer Recurrence Plot by Rasheedah Phillips

Horror (nightmare, terrors, and hauntings): Beloved by Toni Morisson African Immortals by Tananarivue Due Fledgling by Octavia Butler The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez Lakewood by Meggan Giddings The Ballad Of Black Tom by Victor Lavalle Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff The Changeling by Victor Lavealle Zone One by Colson Whitehead The Between by Tananarive Due The Good House by Tananarive Due Ghost Summers: Stories by Tananarive Due Unhollowed Graves by Nunzo Onho Catfish Lullaby by AC Wise

Young Adult (books for young adults): Akata Witch Series by Nnedi Okorofor Zarah The Windseeker & The Shadow Speaker by Nnedi Okorofor Long Juju Man by Nnedi Okorofor Ikenga by Nnedi Okorofor Tristan Strong Series by Kwame Mbalia A Song Below Water by Bethany C Morrow Daughters Of Nri by Reni K. Amayo A River Of Royal Blood by Amanda Joy 47 by Walter Mosley

Comics (graphic storytelling) George Herriman Library: Krazy & Ignatz (1919-1921) by George Herriman The Boondocks Complete Collection by Aaron Mcgruder Birth Of A Nation by Aaron Mcgrudger, Reginald Hudlin, & Kyle Baker Prince Of Cats by Ronald Wimberly Concrete Park by Erika Alexander & Tony Puryear Incognegro Series by Matt Johnson Your Black Friend & Other Stories by Ben Passmore Bttm Fdrs Ezra Clayton Daniels & Ben Passmore Sports Is Hell is Ben Passmore LaGuardia by Nnedi Okorofor & Tana Ford Bread & Wine: An Erotic Tale Of New York by Samuel R Delany & Mia Wolff Empire by Samuel R Delany & Howard Chaykin Excellence by Brandon Thomas Bitteroot by David F Walker, Chuck Brown & Sanford Greene Black by Kwanza Osajyefo Niobe: She Is Life by Amandla Stenberg & Sebastian A Jones Black Panther by Christopher Priest Black Panther by Reginald Hudlin Black Panther by Ta-Nehisi Coates Shuri by Nnedi Okorofor World Of Wakanda by Roxane Gay Truth: Red, White, & Black by Kyle Baker House Of Whispers by Nalo Hopkinson & Neil Gaiman Naomi by David F Walker, Brian Micheal Bendis, & Jamal Campbell Far Sector by NK Jemison & Jamal Campbell

Short Stories (collections by single authors): Driftglass by Samuel R Delany, Distant Stars by Samuel R Delany Bloodchild & Other Stories by Octavia Butler Unexpected Stories by Octavia Butler Falling In Love With Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson Skin Folk by Nalo Hopkinson, Kabu Kabu by Nnedi Okorofor, How Long Til Black Future Month? by NK Jemisin Nine Bar Blues by Sheree Reneee Thomas

Anthologies (collections from multiple authors) Dark Matter edited by Sheree Renee Thomas So Long Been Dreaming edited by Nalo Hopkinson Conjure Stories edited by Nalo Hopkinso Whispers From The Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction edited by Nalo Hopkinson Afro SF: Science Fiction by African Writers edited by Wor. W. Hartmaan Stories For Chip: A Tribute To Samuel R Delany edited by Nisi Shawl Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories From Social Justice Movement edited by Adrienne Marie Brown & Walidah Imarisha Mothership: Tales of Afrofuturism and Beyond edited by Bill Campbell The City: Cyberfunk Antholoy edited by Milton J Davis Steamfunk edited by Milton J Davis Dieselfunk edited by Milton J Davis Griots: A Sword & Soul Anthology by Milton J Davis & Charles R Saunders Griots: Sisters Of The Spear by Milton J Davis & Charles R Saunders

Non-Fiction (histories, essays, and arguments) Afrofuturism And The World Of Black Sci-Fi & Fantasy Culture by Ytasha Womack Afrofuturism 2.0: The Rise Of Astral Blackness edited by Reynaldo Anderson & Charles E Jones The Black Imagination: Science Fiction, The Future, and The Speculative by Sandra Jackson & Julie E Woody-Freeman Afro-Futures & Astral Black Travel by Juice Aleem The Sound Of Culture: Diaspora & Black Technopoetics by Louis Cude Soke Black Utopia: The History Of An Idea From Black Nationalism To Afrofuturism by Alex Zamalin Afrouturism Rising: The Literary Pre-History Of A Movement by Isiah Lavendar III A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra & The Birth Of Afrofuturism by Paul Youngquist Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before: Subversive Poryrals In Speculative Film & TV by Diana Adesola Mafe Black Kirby: In Search Of The Motherbox Connection by John Jennings & Stacey Robinson Super Black: American Pop Culture & Black Super-Heroes by Adilifu Nama Black Space: Imagining Race In Science Fiction Film by Adilifu Nama Black Super-Heroes, Milestone Comics, And Their Fans by Jeffery A Brown Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changin Worlds by Adrienne Marie Brown

*cover image from Ytasha Womack’s “Afrofuturism: The World Of Black Sci-Fi & Fantasy Culture”

(please post anything I might have left out in the comments) 

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Feminist Killjoys Reading Group - October 2019

This month our feminist killjoys enjoyed some time travel, as we attempted to stop the clock and suspend time by being present in space together. 

(Image thanks to Cynthia Florek ♥)

This month we've been thinking about: the wibbly wobbly timey wimey nature of time, breakdowns/breakthroughs, Sara Ahmed asking "can we give ourselves a break?", emotions as feelings in motion/movement, not existing, feeling alive!, Indigenous futurisms, Afrofuturism, the end of capitalism, spontaneity as a suspension of time/responsibility, being led by our bodies. 

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Readings/listenings from the session

Kristin Neff’s Guided Self Compassion Meditations (specifically the Self Compassion/Loving Kindness meditation)

Skawennati - Imagining the next seven generations

Tracy K. Smith - Us & Co (from Life on Mars)

A time travel playlist for movement (of bodies, of emotions)

Other readings

adrienne maree brown and Walidah Imarisha (eds.) - Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories for Social Justice Movements

Ambelin Kwaymullina - Reflecting on Indigenous Worlds, Indigenous Futurisms and Artificial Intelligence

Gabrielle Bellot - Octavia Butler: The Brutalities of the Past Are All Around This

Grace Dillon (ed.) - Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction

Kodwo Eshun - Further Considerations on Afrofuturism

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - Akiden Boreal (from This Accident of Being Lost)

Mary Oliver - In Blackwater Woods

Octavia Butler - Kindred 

Sara Ahmed - Feminism and Fragility

Videos, songs and recordings

a world of our own playlist by Ellen 

clipping. - Splendor & Misery

Indigenous Futurisms mixtape by RPMfm

Jamila Woods - HEAVN

Jordan Cocker - Indigenous Futurisms: Cultures of Radical Love

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - How to Steal a Canoe 

Rhayne Fountain - parallel universes voice memo 

Skawennati - She Falls For Ages and TimeTraveller™ 

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We love you feminist killjoys, through every iteration of space and time x 

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God is one answer to our need to explain ourselves, to make sense of ourselves. But the moment you just accept yourself, then no explanation is needed, and god is everything together and nothing in particular.

adrienne maree brown, Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements  

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'Visionary fiction' is a term we developed to distinguish science fiction that has relevance toward building new, freer worlds from the mainstream strain of science fiction, which most often reinforces dominant narratives of power. Visionary fiction encompasses all of the fantastic, with the arc always bending towards justice. We believe this space is vital for any process of decolonization, because the decolonization of the imagination is the most dangerous and subversive form there is: for it is where all other forms of decolonization are born. Once the imagination is unshackled, liberation is limitless.

Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories From Social Justice Movements (kindle location 146)

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Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements edited by Adrienne Maree Brown and Walidah Imarisha. Published 2015 AK Press and the Institute for Anarchist Studies. Cover design by John Jennings.