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From the Library: Let's Talk Sci-Fi

From the Library post by Ashley McAllister, Submitted by Ashley McAllister on May 20, 2011 - 8:49am; tagged Book Club, From the Library, Margaret Atwood, Marge Piercy, octavia butler, Sci-Fi.

Here at the library, we're spending the summer reading feminist sci-fi. We'll be meeting in Portland to discuss Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy on June 21st. Then we'll be discussing Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler on August 16th. If you're in Portland, come to our book clubs! If you can't be here in person, perhaps you'll consider joining us from afar as we read some of the staples in feminist science fiction.

What are your feminist sci-fi picks? Let us know in the comments!

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And in other comics-related news...graphic novel artist needed for Octavia Butler's Kindred!

Art and Design post by Briar Levit, Submitted by Briar Levit on March 3, 2009 - 2:09pm; tagged Beacon Press, graphic novel, Illustration, octavia butler.

Thanks to Latoya Peterson's heads-up over at Racialicous:

Beacon Press is preparing to publish a graphic adaptation of Octavia Butler's, Kindred. Check out the details after the jump.

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A Galaxy of Our Own

Searching for black women in science-fiction film

Article by Elyce Rae Helford, appeared in issue Is Biology Destiny?; published in 2001; filed under Film; tagged octavia butler, race, sci-fi, science fiction.

Searching for black women in science-fiction film

Is Biology Destiny?

In the ’90s, the black man suddenly invaded the blockbuster science-fiction and fantasy film. African-American males found expanded roles for themselves in a genre that had previously been blindingly white. We finally have a celluloid landscape in which Will Smith and Wesley Snipes get to represent heroic manhood for the masses, but hip and powerful black women have been overlooked by the Hollywood machine so far.

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