We are aware of and respond to the many dire circumstances occurring at our doorsteps and further afield and also recognize the many ways we each experience hardship, asking how we may tend to the present and prepare for the future. The creation of survival packs is not a gratuitous statement in response to imagined disaster scenarios. Butler's work presents an accurate, prophetic and dystopic vision, but rather than being wholly pessimistic, it offers us points of agency embodied in the young character of Lauren Oya Olamina. And to illuminate and celebrate her work and its application to our lives today, especially in this moment locally, nationally and globally. One was to increase visibility of black women practitioners - namely Octavia Butler - in PWI (Predominantly White Institutions). A: This course developed as a response to a few factors.
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