3. Octavia Told Us

This is the third installment of the preseason series that comes before Season 1, where I'm giving you some LORE on the IDEAS that make me who i am and make my work what it is. TODAY we have an ode to Octavia Butler, badass Black ecofeminist SciFi writer. If you’re already an Octavia Stan, sit back, relax, and listen to some Earthseed verses. If you’re not, prepare to be wowed, as we stick one tiny toenail into the lush pool of her work and its ripples into the world. Here’s what’s inside…🌺 how Octavia Butler wrote a fictional US president whose motto is ‘make america great again’ in the 1980’s(!!!)🌺 how the fictional religion she wrote has become an actual religion, at least on the internet.🌺 her response to the question, what do we do about all these problems? she was writing about.🌺 her intersecting identities and how they let her see her present time crystal clearly and speculate about the problems of the time becoming disasters, and write a chilling version of life set in California in 2024.🌺 AND an invitation to practice worldbuilding, practice imagining, practice tuning into the collective, and creative writing in my workshop, COLLECTIVE WORLDBUILDING, coming up June 18th!THANK YOU for being here, rate the show and subscribe! It's brand spanking new, cone-headed and taking its first swollen, squawky, awkward breaths, so cute and helpless. Your support is so appreciated!Sign up for COLLECTIVE WORLDBUILDING! It's an insane amount of fun for being totally legal.Peep my work and my world at www.katehopkins.co and connect with me on IG or threads at @katehopkins_holistic This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit k8hopkins.substack.com/subscribe