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Kayla Vialva wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 8 years, 5 months ago
As I read Lilith’s Brood, I couldn’t help to think of the texts confrontation with numerous stereotypes. The stereotypes range from the extensively conversed about gender to what constitutes someone as a parent in […]
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Kayla Vialva wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 8 years, 5 months ago
Henrietta Lacks is especially known due to the use of her cells being the foundation for various cures. The scientists who used her cells, without her permission, is similar to the Oankali’s ooloi need to save […]
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Kayla Vialva wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 8 years, 5 months ago
Within my reading, I could not help but think why suspended animation was a problem solver for the Oankali. Repeatedly, the Oankali reference suspended animation as a means to solve the issue of humans who have […]
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Kayla Vialva wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 8 years, 6 months ago
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Kayla Vialva wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 8 years, 6 months ago
Octavia Butler weaves feminist issues into her text. She critically analyzes the objectification of women. In the reading of Bloodchild, I was surprised to find this quote ” you’re not her. You’re just her […]
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Kayla Vialva wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 8 years, 6 months ago
Recently, I found a study conducted in which concluded “one in three men would rape if they could get away with it and so long as it wasn’t referred to as rape” (Schow). Octavia Butler freely instills sexuality […]
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Kayla Vialva wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 8 years, 6 months ago
Shama Nathan, of the Feminist Wire, recalls a time when she realized her privilege. While on vacation she encounters a young man who’s compliment “you talk like a white person” followed by “that’s why you’re […]
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Kayla Vialva wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 8 years, 7 months ago
In class, we discussed gentrification in the sense of Mind of My Mind. The Feminist Wire’s, Madhu Dubey explores oppression within the text in his article Octavia Butler’s Novels of Enslavement. He introduces the […]
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Kayla Vialva wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 8 years, 7 months ago
Octavia Butler’s Wild Seed and Mind of My Mind examined through the lens of the feminist perspective gives an equal representation of Doro and Mary. Arguably, Doro and Mary are masters to those around them. Doro […]
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Kayla Vialva wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 8 years, 7 months ago
Rajanie Kumar, a guest contributor at the Feminist Wire, describes how “whiteness” truly affects the present day black community. Whiteness is defined as a “terror in the psyches of black individuals and the black […]
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