{"id":50429,"date":"2021-02-23T13:52:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T13:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=78b2cb821f9ee1e22095749e2c177659"},"modified":"2021-02-23T13:52:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T13:52:25","slug":"adrienne-maree-brown-octavia-butlers-visions-of-the-future-have-transformed-generation-of-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/23\/adrienne-maree-brown-octavia-butlers-visions-of-the-future-have-transformed-generation-of-readers\/","title":{"rendered":"adrienne maree brown: Octavia Butler&#8217;s Visions of the Future Have Transformed Generation of Readers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2021\/2\/23\/octavia_butler_adrienne_maree_brown\"><img style=\"float:right; padding-left:5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/images\/story\/35\/56735\/w320\/seg3-octavia-brown.jpg\" alt=\"Seg3 octavia brown\" \/><\/a><p>The visionary Black science-fiction writer Octavia Butler died 15 years ago on February 24, 2006, but her influence and readership has only continued to grow since then. In September, Butler&#8217;s novel &#8220;Parable of the Sower&#8221; became her first to reach the New York Times best-seller list. We speak with adrienne maree brown, a writer and Octavia Butler scholar, who says Butler had a remarkable talent for universalizing Black stories. &#8220;She wrote about Black women and about Black feminism, about Black futures, but she wrote in a way that appealed to all human beings,&#8221; says brown.<\/p>\n      \n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2021\/2\/23\/octavia_butler_adrienne_maree_brown\">Democracy Now!<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The visionary Black science-fiction writer Octavia Butler died 15 years ago on February 24, 2006, but her influence and readership has only continued to grow since then. In September, Butler&#8217;s novel &#8220;Parable of the Sower&#8221; became her first to reach the New York Times best-seller list. We speak with adrienne maree brown, a writer and Octavia Butler scholar, who says Butler had a remarkable talent for universalizing Black stories. &#8220;She wrote about Black women and about Black feminism, about Black futures, but she wrote in a way that appealed to all human beings,&#8221; says brown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1293,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1293"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50557,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50429\/revisions\/50557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}