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Stephanie Wilcoxen wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 11 years, 4 months ago

“That’s the nice thing about science fiction,” Octavia Butler says in Mike McGonigal’s interview “Octavia Butler.” She continues: “Back when I was a kid and began reading it, it was called the literature of ideas. […]
Stephanie Wilcoxen wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 11 years, 4 months ago

A friend recently showed me an article titled, “The Germ Theory of Democracy, Dictatorship, and All Your Most Cherished Beliefs” which she had read for her Parasitology class. It’s yet another scientific article […]
Stephanie Wilcoxen wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 11 years, 4 months ago

Saidiya Hartman’s discussion of empathy in “Innocent Amusements,” from her book Scenes of Subjection provides a really interesting lens through which to examine Lauren’s hyperempathy. Hartman studies the letters […]
Stephanie Wilcoxen wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 11 years, 4 months ago

While watching Trevor Noah’s standup special, “African American,” in an effort to learn about the new Daily Show host, I was struck by the similarities between one of his stories and one of Akin’s lines and […]
Stephanie Wilcoxen wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 11 years, 5 months ago

Tala Khanmalek’s article in the Feminist Wire, “Slavery: The Haunting Legacy of Sterilization Abuse in California State Prisons,” begins by reporting that between 2006 and 2010 around 150 women were sterilized in […]
Stephanie Wilcoxen wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 11 years, 6 months ago

In reading the excerpt from Survivor in class I was struck most by the idea of the ‘Sacred Image.’ My understanding of the Sacred Image is that it is the human form—the shape of, “The Lord God who made man in his […]
Stephanie Wilcoxen wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 11 years, 6 months ago

To me, the idea of cannibalism seems to pervade Seed to Harvest—something that makes sense with the general theme of symbiosis which keeps coming back in Butler’s fiction. Multiple forms of cannibalism are created […]
Stephanie Wilcoxen wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 11 years, 6 months ago

I was struck by the importance of personal relationships in the Ina legal system as well as by the way that Shori is depicted as someone without a cultural memory in Fledgling. The Ina community seems to be held […]

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