Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements

Our ancestors dreamed us up and then bent reality to create us.

And for those of us from communities with historic collective trauma, we must understand that each of us is already science fiction walking around on two legs. Our ancestors dreamed us up and then bent reality to create us.

Because many of the people who were taken by the wasting disease happened to be white, God was not a viable culprit.

Visionary fiction” is a term we developed to distinguish science fiction that has relevance toward building new, freer worlds from the mainstream strain of science fiction, which most often reinforces dominant narratives of power. Visionary fiction encompasses all of the fantastic, with the arc always bending toward justice. We believe this space is vital for any process of decolonization, because the decolonization of the imagination is the most dangerous and subversive form there is: for it is where all other forms of decolonization are born. Once the imagination is unshackled, liberation is limitless.

Together they unlocked potential in one another. They worked hard and played harder, until the work felt like play. Everything

hipsters and entrepreneurs were complicated locusts. they ate up everything in sight, but they meant well.

She felt the night air on her, pretending she was somewhere else, in some other time. She often did this before she did something reckless. Her hope was that, if she died, her soul would travel to the last beautiful place she imagined.

He turned and looked her solemnly in the eyes. “Is it too much to ask for a happy ending?” She smiled sadly. “I don’t think there are any happy endings left.

Billions of little silver holes poked through the darkness but never threatened to break the fabric.

God is one answer to our need to explain ourselves, to make sense of ourselves. But the moment you just accept yourself, then no explanation is needed, and god is everything together and nothing in particular.

and she noticed who stayed, and it was the same people who had always been there.

You know, even if we succeed, some of them aren’t going to want to come with us,