Black Cultural Futurism: Ifá, Indigenous African Beliefs & Black Survival
Reimagining Black futures beyond Afrofuturism—rooted in Ifá, African epistemologies, and diasporic survival.
Abstracts due: October 5, 2025
Submission types: Scholarly essays, fiction, poetry, visual art
No AI-generated content
Anticipated Publication: 2027
Call for Submissions!
Abstracts due: October 5, 2025
Submission types: Scholarly essays, fiction, poetry, visual art
No AI-generated content
Publication: 2027
Details on flyer; scan the QR code for details or select this URL: docs.google.com/document/u/0...
#Afrofuturism
17.09.2025 17:02 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
‘Positive Obsession’ Is a Fresh Look at Octavia E. Butler
‘Positive Obsession’ Is a Fresh Look at #OctaviaEButler -- A new biography by Susana M. Morris reveals the struggles, passions and triumphs that shaped the science fiction icon and her books. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/b....
10.09.2025 15:26 — 👍 28 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
CFP: Black Cultural Futurism
09.09.2025 11:40 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Happy Publication Day to Susana M. Morris!
Her biography on Ms. Butler, Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler, officially releases today!
Congrats!
#octaviabutler #parableofthesower
19.08.2025 12:45 — 👍 20 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 3
Tuxedo cat standing next to a stack of books written by Octavia E. Butler
Tuxedo cat standing next in between two stacks of books written by Octavia E. Butler
Image of a cat standing next to books written by Octavia E. Butler with the text, "Happy 78th Birthday, Octavia E. Butler! Celebrating 12 Years of Octavia E. Butler Literary Society! What we've been up to this past year--and more!" At the bottom is a link to the Society's blog hosted on Substack. oebsociety.substack.com
Happy 78th Birthday to Octavia E. Butler!
Butler’s legacy is full speed ahead, thanks to so many groups, businesses, schools, scholars, artists, writers, and more.
Whether you’re new to Butler or just getting started, there’s something for everyone—even our four legged friends!
#octaviabutler
22.06.2025 12:40 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Join us in celebrating Octavia E. Butler's Birthday Month with the Octavia E. Butler Literary Society's 2nd "Wild Seeds: A Tuesday Accountability Group."
We invite content creators, educators, writers, and anyone seeking a focused work environment to join our free virtual working space on Zoom!
Scan the QR code or use the link in our bio to register for the free Zoom session
Join us in celebrating Butler's birthday month with our 2nd "Wild Seeds: A Tuesday Accountability Group."
We invite content creators, educators, writers, and anyone seeking a focused work environment to join our free virtual working space on Zoom from 1-4 PM ET Tuesdays in June!
#octaviabutler
27.05.2025 12:45 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Scholars (L-R): Victoria Moten, Mary Moore, and Josie Defaye for the Session titled Comparative Approaches to Octavia E. Butler's Fiction at the 2025 American Literature Association Convention held in Boston, MA
Scholars (L-R): Emma Fox, Christina Delray, and Dr. Karyn L. Hixson for the Session titled God is Change: Explorations of Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower at the 2025 American Literature Association Convention held in Boston, MA
Scholars (L-R): Deanna Monique Daniels, Kendra R. Parker, Punam Mehta (pictured on screen), and Dr. Maureen McDonnell for the Session titled Make People Feel! Pedagogical Approaches to Octavia E. Butler at the 2025 American Literature Association Convention held in Boston, MA
Audience members participating in Q&A during an OEBLS panel at ALA 2025 in Boston, MA
The Octavia E. Butler Literary Society hosted three panels at the 2025 American Literature Association Conference in Boston, MA. Each session was invigorating! #octaviabutler #parableofthesower #wildseed #pedagogy #blackwriter #academicsky
25.05.2025 14:45 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
An image with the words, "Celebrating 12 Years of the Octavia E. Butler Literary Society," written on the front with a picture of Octavia E. Butler gazing out into the distance
Happy Founder's Day to the Octavia E. Butler Literary Society!
#octaviabutler #earthseed #parable
24.05.2025 12:45 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The Octavia E. Butler Literary Society had a special session at the 2025 College Language Association Convention in Vancouver, WA last week!
The special session was titled, Octavia E. Butler in Expanding Conversations:
Ecology, Indigeneity, and Black Liberation"
Pictured left to right at a table in front of a window are Dr. Mario A. Chandler (session chair), Sarah Rude Walker (presenter), R. Nicole Smith (presenter), Stefanie Dunning (presenter).
The Octavia E. Butler Literary Society had a special session at the 2025
@clascholars.bsky.social Convention in Vancouver, WA last week!
"The special session was titled, Octavia E. Butler in Expanding Conversations:
Ecology, Indigeneity, and Black Liberation"
#octaviabutler #CLAGoesWest
30.04.2025 12:45 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A cover of the graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Talents. Featuring the half shown drawn profile of a Black woman with locks and hoop earrings.
Happy Publication Day to John A. Jennings and Damian Duffy!
Their graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's #ParableOfTheTalents officially releases today!
Congrats!
#parableofthesower #earthseed #parableofthetalents #olamina #octaviabutler
22.04.2025 12:45 — 👍 18 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
A call for papers (CFP) flyer for the Octavia E. Butler Seminar at PAMLA 2025.
Seeking paper proposals that explore Octavia E. Butler’s oeuvre for a special session at PAMLA 2025.
Event info:
Thursday, November 20 to Sunday, November 23, 2025, in San Francisco, CA.
Session format: Seminar with 4 to 7 participants who share papers in advance and present a brief 5- to 7-minute summary, followed by extended Q&A.
PAMLA 2025 Theme:
"Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion" — exploring how the past haunts the present and future in Butler’s work. Submissions on remembering, forgetting, erasure, and lingering presences are welcome but not required to be on theme.
Contact:
Presiding officer Jade Saffery – jadejsaffery910@gmail.com
Submission details:
250- to 500-word paper proposals due by Thursday, May 15, 2025.
Submit proposals at bit.ly/OEB-PAMLA.
Join the Octavia E. Butler Seminar panel at PAMLA 2025 in San Francisco ! Submit your paper proposals on "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion" or any Butler-related topic by May 15, 2025.
For more info visit: bit.ly/OEB-PAMLA
#OctaviaButler
10.04.2025 17:00 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
This picture includes a quote from Octavia E. Butler's "Free Libraries: Are They Becoming Extinct?" written in August 1993 for Omni magazine. The quote reads,
"To save money, branch libraries are being closed, being sacrificed the way some trees are supposed to sacrifice branches during a drought. In fact, we're creating an intellectual drought that can only be made worse by such sacrifice. We're doing ourselves lasting harm in exchange for the ephemeral good of quick-fix budget cuts. It's time we stopped, considered the consequences of our self-destructive behavior, and made the necessary changes."
#NationalLibraryWeek
Butler grew up in libraries, loved them, and wrote there. Back in 1993 she sounded the alarm about libraries being sacrificed and she warned of the "intellectual drought" that would come if we didn't "[consider] the consequences of our self-destructive behavior"
#octaviabutler
08.04.2025 07:45 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
A digital image features a quote from Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler, formatted as a journal entry with the date "Wednesday, March 12, 2025." The entry reads, "People go to bed soon after dark to save electricity, but between dinner and darkness they spend time on their porches or in their yards where it isn’t so hot. Some listen to their radio on front or back porches. Now and then people get together to play music, sing, play board games, talk, or get out on the paved part of the street for volleyball, touch football, basketball, or tennis... A few people just find a corner and read a book while there’s still daylight. It’s a good, comfortable, recreational time. What a pity to spoil it with reminders of reality. But it can’t be helped."
Olamina Daily.
#Parableofthesower #OctaviaButler #Earthseed
12.03.2025 08:45 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
48 Everyday Things to Do to Resist
Ed Chang
New on the blog: 48 Everyday Things to Do to Resist
11.03.2025 08:45 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
From Parable of the Sower
#OlaminaDaily #OctaviaButler
22.02.2025 13:00 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
From our free Acorn: Rejuvenating Activity Kit we launched last year. Access it here:
https://buff.ly/4bkrKYA
#OctaviaButler
22.02.2025 08:45 — 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
From #ParableOfTheSower
#OlaminaDaily #OctaviaButler
19.02.2025 10:09 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Who are your people?
Who is your community?
How can you show them love today?
Happy #BlackLove Day!
#ValentinesDay #BlackLove #BlackLoveDay #OctaviaButler #WildSeed
13.02.2025 10:09 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
From #ParableOfTheSower
#OlaminaDaily #OctaviaButler
01.02.2025 10:09 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Octavia E. Butler’s Library Card
Los Angeles Public Library
© Octavia E. Butler The Huntington Library | San Marino
Image from the exquisite book by Lynell George
@lynellgeorge.bsky.social
a handful of earth
a handful of sky
the world of
Octavia E. Butler
Read: www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a...
12.01.2025 17:37 — 👍 51 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 3
Black Sci-Fi Writer Octavia Butler Predicted the Dystopia of the LA Fires by Studying History
This week, her hometown of Pasadena has seen at least 5 killed and 5 schools burned to ash.
The LA Fires Aren't a Surprise If You Study History and Climate Change. So Now What? Teen Vogue connects the work of the late sci-fi writer Octavia E. Butler to the Los Angeles fires that have so far burned through 35,000 acres. www.teenvogue.com/story/la-fir...
15.01.2025 21:53 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
