... Chicago-based improviser Nicole Mitchell’s Xenogenesis Suite pays homage to the Afro-futurist science fiction of Octavia Butler. Mitchell and Butler invite listeners to question how bodies are shaped by and resistant to social and sexual hegemonies. Mitchell takes up Butler’s challenges...

... care coalition Octavia Butler Toshi Reagon ...

... dance performance activism Black girls and health embodiment Octavia Butler ...

... California Native studies Lewis Baltz Octavia Butler Deborah Miranda landscape photography ...

... narrative theory Ursula K. Le Guin Octavia Butler Deborah Gordon ant-acacia interactions ...

... Looking to Toshi Reagon’s science fiction opera, Parable of the Sower , based on the Octavia Butler book by the same name, this chapter explores escape as a narrative of entanglement. In Reagon’s work, the reader, the listener, and the theater audience are asked to become part of the retelling...

... This chapter conjures a hypothetical conversation between Alice Walker, Judith Butler, and Octavia E. Butler to address the constructs of feminism and womanism through the lens of “gender trouble” and “science fiction.” Because these discourses pressure the constitution and ratification...

... Chapter 6 draws from SF writers Ursula K. Le Guin and Octavia Butler, in alliance with ants and acacia seeds in particular places. The task is to tell an SF adventure story with acacias and their associates as the protagonists. It turns out that Le Guin’s carrier bag theory of narrative comes...

... Chapter 1, “Landslides and Horizons of the West,” examines Lewis Baltz’s landscape photography in The New Industrial Parks near Irvine, California and Candlestick Point and Octavia Butler’s Earthseed novels of the speculative near future alongside Indigenous studies sources about traditional...

... Combating the informatics of domination demands other ways to tell stories and imagine worlds. “A Cyborg Manifesto” calls up such possibilities in its invocation of Octavia E. Butler. This essay turns to N. K. Jemison’s Broken Earth Trilogy to explore how Black, queer, and decolonial...

... in everyday life and formal performing arts intersect, are mutually definitive, and hold the potential for embodied political interventions. dance performance activism Black girls and health embodiment Octavia Butler ...

..., dispossession, and rootlessness that many Black Americans feel as a result of their ancestors’ experiences during the peculiar institution. Through the examination of nonfiction travel memoirs, novels, and films, including Maya Angelou’s All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes, Octavia Butler’s Kindred...

... interventions. dance performance activism Black girls and health embodiment Octavia Butler ...

... implications of the saxophonic scream are discussed in conclusion. free jazz John Coltrane timbre Chicago-based improviser Nicole Mitchell’s Xenogenesis Suite pays homage to the Afro-futurist science fiction of Octavia Butler. Mitchell and Butler invite listeners to question how bodies...