English @ SUNY Geneseo | Nikita Rumsey | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/nikitarumsey/activity/ Activity feed for Nikita Rumsey. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 fb2478638f8f4a78039149e9845c02a1 Nikita Rumsey wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=695 Tue, 12 May 2015 16:49:52 -0500 So I’m not really sure where to start. When the semester began, I had only been familiar with Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild” from when we read it last spring in African American Literature, as well as Parable of […]

]]> 8cf7e7246e9786aefe44d7b505e62776 Nikita Rumsey wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=663 Thu, 07 May 2015 16:37:30 -0500 So I’ve been watching a ton of that newish Netflix series, Marvel’s Daredevil. And given that it’s finals week, I think it’s safe to say that this isn’t the most opportune time to get hooked on a show. Either way, […]

]]> 035ab36e4dc49590b91d5f8842a3dc0b Nikita Rumsey wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=503 Thu, 09 Apr 2015 16:33:32 -0500 I remember during one of our first class discussions on Dawn, Dr. McCoy admitted that she had always experienced problems in trying to read the “ooloi” species within the novel as neither male nor female but […]

]]> 5f964ca30b58aaa7788b68888e2a912a Nikita Rumsey wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=463 Wed, 01 Apr 2015 21:29:00 -0500 I had meant to post this earlier, but I of course forgot to do so. So although I wasn’t present in class on Friday for the discussion on Bloodchild, from what I’ve gathered from recent posts it seems as though at […]

]]> b960bffec47f1ae1d3db45ac3bdbf1a0 Nikita Rumsey wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=378 Wed, 11 Mar 2015 23:49:30 -0500 While I was skimming through some of Octavia Butler’s interviews the other night, I noticed a brief exchange between Butler and her interviewer, Marilyn Mehaffy in this instance, within the interview titled […]

]]> bd8796d5440ff92d8aa9472d4faa80a4 Nikita Rumsey wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=312 Thu, 26 Feb 2015 01:30:46 -0500 Our group discussion on urbanization and the phenomenon of gentrification has had me thinking about how communities, especially urban communities, are maintained through a series of inclusions and exclusions that […]

]]> f6e2d87e2c55e7662e625b0f1a033152 Nikita Rumsey wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=246 Tue, 17 Feb 2015 01:18:33 -0500 I want to return to a part of last week’s discussions where the groups were asked to “judge” the characters of Wild Seed, and then offer “push-backs” on those judgments. From what I took of it, the majority of […]

]]> cef0edb3642b3813d493303924127135 Nikita Rumsey wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=141 Wed, 11 Feb 2015 21:40:54 -0500 Something caught my eye whilst reading Pramod Nayar’s article on Posthumanism in Octavia Butler’s Fledgling. A few days ago, we had noticed in our group discussion during Friday’s class that we were having […]

]]> e152b7e0bb98cd6793d0cb9d60037344 Nikita Rumsey wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=107 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 21:26:34 -0500 Having read and been inspired by Hanna Richman’s previous post on “The Relationship between Naming and Dominance in fledgling,” I want to continue the discussion on the links between (and framing of) naming and […]

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