A review by seeceeread
Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements by Walidah Imarisha, adrienne maree brown

They had solid bodies of rage and trauma that never had a chance to be whisper-shouted out. Just got passed on. • Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Children Who Fly

Zombie killers who aspire to liberate Black and Brown folks from forced labor camps into middle America, where the undead roam. An orphaned adolescent who slowly learns to catalyze raw ache into ascendance. A man with a diagnosis who discovers his mental illness is actually a portal into parallel spheres. Most of the stories take the speculative premise, "What if things continue as they are?" Dire circumstances and wild creativity emerge.

I liked this revisit of my #YearOfOctavia ... but to be honest, not one of these scratched her genius. Perhaps the authors needed a trip to the library, an extended hermitage, and a different length, à la Butler. 

If you're interested, enjoy! But stop reading at the end of Mumia Abu-Jamal's 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿 𝗪𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗜𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. The final essay, 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗟𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗵, by Tananarive Due, is harmful and thoughtless; her discussion of 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗱 is reckless and horrid.)