octavias parables

We are off this week (11/29) - will be back Dec 6! All three seasons are available and transcribed at readingoctavia.com

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Get Ready!! We are back OCTOBER 4TH with Octavia E Butler's Wild Seed!!

Later this month, a consortium of local folks begin “The Parable Path,” a year-long preparation for the @KrannertCenter hosting of Toshi Reagon's opera, “Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower” in 2022. krannertcenter.com/content/parabl…

Just finished Chapter 13 of Parable of the Talents and @adriennemaree nailed it on the @OParables podcast when she said that Octavia was critiquing capitalism when Lauren Olamina feels the pleasure of her oppressors. All these years later this book is still earthshaking.

Beloveds! We made it! Today's episode is the epilogue of the Parable of the Talents, the last published piece of Octavia E Butler's Parable trilogy. And we reveal what we will be reading next!

We learn more about life after Acorn is seized. The children are gone. The violence is constant. The hypocrisy is deep. The living save what little they can, and begin to plan while they try to survive. Chapter 12. open.spotify.com/episode/7JfLw8…

Acorn is overrun. Unspeakable, unthinkable losses. Loss of family, loss of life, loss of freedom. How to go on? Toshi and adrienne explore chapter 11 of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Talents, and offer questions for you and your people to consider. open.spotify.com/episode/7yadUC…

Chapter 7! We hear Marcus’s own Parable, his journey, and meet his religion. We get a perspective on the early life of Lauren. Bankole continues to press a move away from Acorn. And as always, we offer questions for you to consider. You’ll want to sit with these ones. Up now.

The Acorn community searches for Dan Noyer’s sisters. But find another, unexpected sibling. The reunion is heavy. Toshi and adrienne explore Chapter 6 of Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Talents. open.spotify.com/episode/1gfvsn…

@fromLoransHeart sorry, adding them now in ch. 6!

@OParables I'm having trouble finding the links you mentioned in Podcasts 4 and 5. Where are they? Esp. Soundcloud?

"If we can't turn and face this story then we can't turn and face our own reality and find the opportunity to move out of this reality to something else. We are rigorously paying attention to this story so we can rigorously see ourselves." - @adriennemaree from @OParables

We learn about access to news, access to water, and mechanisms of control. The climate keeps changing. There’s life on Mars, and there’s life formed in a Petri dish. War is very popular these days. Chapter 5 is here!

Chapter 4 is up far and wide beloveds!

hi loves! we just learned that our episode load didn't go thru for chapter 3! so sorry for the delay and we are working on getting it up asap.

We love to see it!

Octavia's Parables Podcast We are back! Season 2 March 1st The Parable of the Talents 🌿 🌿 🌿 Hosted by @biglovely1 and @adriennemaree OParables 2nd season IGlive 3/1 5pmET @adriennemareebrown ☀️🖤☀️ Give thanks

hey loves! we wanted you to know that we will be back to you the first week of March - we are getting all the things in motion and excited to return with the Parable of the Talents!

We are live right now! youtu.be/Drdzbk2XY7g Punanny Politixxx 💜💜💜

Join @calltoresist for the final installment of our #JusticeIsEssential series: “From Survival to Liberation: How Creative Practice Shapes Movements” with @adriennemaree and @biglovely1 on 2/17 from 2-3:15 pm EST. Register: tinyurl.com/1ndcx54l