This rich history is undercut with urgency, as gentrification is displacing Oakland’s Black population at a staggering rate.
Octavia Butler
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A Graphic Novel Adapts Octavia Butler’s Science Fiction Classic
The award-winning author-illustrator duo Damian Duffy and John Jennings have teamed up again, but at times, Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation feels unoriginal, even for an adaptation.
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What Can We Learn from Dystopian Fiction About Climate Change?
If you haven’t heard of cli-fi yet, you are not alone; however, you have probably either read or watched some already.
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The Fantastical Paradoxes of Afrofuturist Film
Imaginative, aesthetic, historically fixated, and cosmically liberated, afrofuturism could be subject to low budgets, racism, sexism, and indifference, and still count itself a master of radiant ideas.