To kick off Season 2 of LYS, this week we talked with the brilliant hosts of Zora’s Daughters podcast (Alyssa and Brendane) about none other than Octavia Butler’s 1993 science fiction novel, “Parable of the Sower.” Together, the four of us discuss futurity, age and identity during apocalypse, Black feminist thought, and the discourses of world building and world ending within sci-fi, as well as Black and indigeneity studies. In closing, we meditate on the resurgence and reprinting of Butler’s work, the popular narrative of Black women’s cultural clairvoyance, and the contemporary crisis of climate, housing, and labo(u)r in the midst of an ongoing pandemic.
