![]() ![]() In 2008, I began graduate school, pursuing a master’s in Women’s and Gender Studies, and I found myself in a class titled “Gender and Science Fiction.” That course was a revelation. Butler: Telling My Stories” exhibition, 2017 Butler and The Huntington Library for the Library’s “Octavia E. ![]() I’m comfortably asocial-a hermit living in a large city-a pessimist if I’m not careful a student, endlessly curious a feminist an African American a former Baptist and an oil and water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.” “ I’m a 52-year old writer who can remember being a 10-year old writer and who expects someday to be a 80-year old writer. “ I’m a 50-year old writer who can remember being a 10-year old writer and who expects. ![]() “ I’m a 48-year old writer who can remember being a 10-year old writer. “ I’m a 46-year old writer who can remember being a 10-year old. “ I’m a 43-year old writer who can remember being. “ Who am I? I’m a 41-year old writer who can remember. “Question: Who is Octavia Butler? Where is she headed? Where has she been?” “Answer: You mean that tall girl who’s always writing?” ![]()
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