Della Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Della

Octavia Butler changed my life so I know I want to assign a lot of her work. Maybe Parable of the Sower alongside a reading on environmental justice. And, Bloodchild with a reading on reproductive justice. Any recommendations for the paired texts (more theoretical ones)?

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Students in my Sci-fi & Social Justice class chose Octavia Butler's Fledgling as our last book of the semester. I've never read it before and I'm excited to dig into it with them. "I awoke to darkness" is one hell of an opening line! https://t.co/BBDRMWLG7h

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@fugitivephilo I'm lucky to teach one of my classes in a room with lots of whiteboards and we make good use of them for small group work. Here are examples of what my students did when we read Angela Davis's Are Prisons Obsolete? alongside the comic, Bitch Planet. They get it!!! https://t.co/hLWXX6FKpL

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@thunder_rhoda definitely going to assign some N.K. Jemisin! I was thinking of a few of her short stories from How Long til Black Future Month. Maybe The City We Became... we have only 15 weeks, alas

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@heymrsbond Claudia Rankine's The White Card

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@yarnchicken so far we're reading mostly theories of justice along with short sci-fi stories. after break we go all in on sci-fi. so we're reading Sara Ahmed this week (Living a Feminist Life). last week we read stuff on structural injustice, political responsibility, care ethics & mutual aid

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At one point in her book on Afrofuturism, Ytasha Womack describes Afrofuturism as a "trinity" made up of Sun Ra, George Clinton & Octavia Butler so I made this Spotify playlist of Sun Ra & P-Funk songs to go along with my class's reading of Bloodchild https://t.co/5bSG1WeZuz

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@Uh__Lena here's the line I was thinking of! similar sentiment. it's from adrienne maree brown's Emergent Strategy which is about how transformative justice emerges from all the small things we do (so the book moves back & forth between the personal & political). it's very therapeutic! https://t.co/LoKCnbnspD

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if you're curious about what kind of teacher I am, I called Plato's Republic a Spike Lee Joint because it's all about how to do the right thing yes, I laughed at my own joke no, nobody else did https://t.co/rbQ7Mbxaqv

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