#parableofthesower

Join @SanFranciscoPublicLibrary and #SistahScifi on Tuesday, June 10 at 6PM for an unforgettable evening celebrating Octavia E. Butler’s visionary legacy and the power of youth leadership.

Hosted in the James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center at SFPL’s Main Library and available virtually, this hybrid event honors the fierce brilliance of Lauren Oya Olamina—the teen heroine from Parable of the Sower—and the futures we can build through radical imagination, empathy, and courage.

Moderated by teen author Aida Ndiaye, this event features powerhouse voices including: 📚 Dr. Kendra R. Parker @drkrparker 📚 Dr. Susana M. Morris @susiemaye 📚 Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall

🎟️ Free and open to all ages, register here: https://on.sfpl.org/superhero More info: www.sistahscifi.com/pages/events

Presented in partnership with: @SistahScifi | @sfpubliclibrary | @themixatsfpl | @sevenstoriespress | SFPL's African American Center

Afrofurist writer #OctaviaButler was born on this day, June 22, in 1947. She was bold, brilliant and prophetic. Her 1990's books "Parable of the Sower," and "Parable of the Talents" forshadowed serious issues we are currently facing in the U.S. and globally including man-made climate change-fueled disasters, the dangerous rise of fascism, and white-supremacist-rooted attacks on public education. She was also a native of Pasedena and was buried in Altadena, California.

#OctaviaToldUs #BelieveBlackWomen

Video and caption reposted from @democracynow As parts of California burn up in climate-fueled wildfires, many are revisiting science fiction author Octavia Butler's "Parable" series. Released in the '90s, the story begins in 2024 in a world of climate chaos, rampant inequality and fascism, including a politician campaigning to "make America great again." Butler explained her inspiration for the novels in a 2005 interview with Democracy Now! — one of the final interviews before her death just months later.

Visit democracynow.org to watch the full interview.

*New Video!* THE HARVEST IS SEPARATED, ALL BUNDLES SET IN THEIR PLACES - "The Bride is chosen..." "Thus says The Lord: By My prophets have I made My plans known. Yet that which I am about to do is done already, and shall be. And that which I have spoken from the beginning, even to this day, is true. For the will of God can not be broken, even as The Scriptures. And if My every word is Scripture, then how shall even one word fail?..."

I just finished reading this gem. I now there is another book in the series and I will try to get my hands on it tomorrow.

I started reading it after researching the term Solarpunk for quite a while and fond this as one of the books you could read on the subject. While the book shows a very serious and frightening future for humankind the main story of a book follows a brave woman who is determined that there Must be a way to move on from this. She has a strong vision and courage and begins to search this broken world for alternative ways to live and look at life.

I found it very comforting to read it at a time when a big part of the world seems to move in the wrong direction. People can change their ways and affect what's happening.