Next SJM Book Discussion
"Kindred" by award winning author Octavia E. Butler
The next SJM Book Club Meeting will be on Monday, March 6, 2023 at 7:30 pm. If you are not already on the mailing list for the book club and would like to receive the Zoom link, please email awinkler@socialjusticematters.org.
We will be discussing Octavia Butler's book “Kindred”. The visionary time-travel classic whose Black female hero is pulled through time to face the horrors of American slavery and explores the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now.
Octavia E. Butler (Wikipedia)
About the Author: Octavia E. Butler
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction author and a multiple recipient of the Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, Butler became the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship.
Born in Pasadena, California, Butler was raised by her widowed mother. Extremely shy as a child, Butler found an outlet at the library reading fantasy, and in writing. She began writing science fiction as a teenager. She attended community college during the Black Power movement, and while participating in a local writer's workshop, was encouraged to attend the Clarion Workshop, which focused on science fiction.
She soon sold her first stories and by the late 1970s had become sufficiently successful as an author that she was able to pursue writing full-time. Her books and short stories drew the favorable attention of the public and awards soon followed. She also taught writer's workshops, and eventually relocated to Washington. Butler died of a stroke at the age of 58. Her papers are held in the research collection of the Huntington LibraryAbout the Author