BBCO Artist, selena feliciano, opens for a conversation between Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Susana M Morris, moderated by Isis Azare.

A special collaboration between Bushwick Book Club Oakland and the Bay Area Book Fest.

“The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house” (Audre Lorde), but the tools that have been used for dismantling in the past might just be the ones we use to build the future. For Octavia Butler, science fiction stories were her tools for speculating the devolution of the American empire and simultaneously offered cautionary tales about our propensity for violence and sanguine manifestations that alter our current paradigms and envision Black women at the center of the world.