Fatu rated Octavia's Brood: 4 stars
Octavia's Brood by adrienne maree brown, Walidah Imarisha
Whenever we envision a world without war, without prisons, without capitalism, we are producing speculative fiction. Organizers and activists envision, …
Talia's writing is incisive and it made me uncomfortable in the best of ways. It is the kind of the discomfort at the realization that assumptions you had and didn't even know you had are challenged. I'll undoubtedly have to revisit it in order to fully grasp the wisdom in her book; my own lack of familiarity with gender lit was telling, though not necessarily a barrier to my being able to grasp most of the positions she forwards here