Whenever we envision a world without war, without prisons, without capitalism, we are producing speculative fiction. Organizers and activists envision, and try to create, such worlds all the time. adrienne along with her friend and colleague Walidah Imarisha have brought together twenty of them in this anthology of short stories to explore the connections between radical speculative fiction and movements for social change. The visionary tales of Octavia’s Brood span genres—sci-fi, fantasy, horror, magical realism—but all are united by an attempt to inject a healthy dose of imagination and innovation into our political practice and to try on new ways of understanding ourselves, the world around us, and all the selves and worlds that could be. The collection is rounded off with essays by Tananarive Due and Mumia Abu-Jamal, and a preface by Sheree Renée Thomas.

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Excerpts & Tools:

• Grievers Trilogy
• ES Series
• Reflections on Octavia's Butler Earthseed: The Books of the Living
• Collective Visionary Fiction Writing Worksheet
• Octavia Butler Strategic Reader
• Lineages of Change Tarot Deck

Podcasts:

• adrienne maree brown on Writing Our Future

Links/Articles:

• The Fictions and Futures of Transformative Justice
• Black Imagination Can Build a Better World
• Dream Beyond the Wounds
• adrienne maree brown on Why 'All Organizing is Science Fiction'

Videos:

• adrienne maree brown on the water we’re swimming in