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The Lit Review

The Lit Review is a new podcast series where we will interview organizers and community members about books. On each episode, we'll lead an informal conversation with our guests about a key book that

I love this podcast series already! Books are selected and discussed in the same spirit that I want for our Freedom Book Club. Even better, they have organizers and people I consider thought leaders come on and talk about the significance of the books. The intro is 🎯🎯🎯

This will definitely be a good resource for book recommendations and insight about the ones we have already read. To date, they have reviewed The Underground Railroad (episode 13) , as well as Parable of the Sower/Talents (episode 7).

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I went to an event at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland that featured Black Panther Party leader Ericka Huggins and poets and writers Chinaka Hodge and Zoé Samudzi. They decidedly chose not to do a panel-style discussion, and instead read passages from their favorite books and poems.

In this picture, Chinaka is reading one of the three passages she chose from Parable of the Sower: The one where Lauren describes her hyperempathy, the one describing President Donner, and the one about Earthseed and how its destiny is among the stars.

After the passages were read, they entered into a discussion about the importance of creating the world that we want to live in. The Black Panthers were doing that until the state killed and imprisoned their leaders. Zoé said that it will always be hard to create this new world, precisely because it is new.

I think about Lauren and the freedom that she and her group of followers have been able to attain, even under constant, overwhelming threat of violence and danger, and how that freedom is rooted in Lauren’s beliefs about Earthseed. That’s what really impressed me about her, that from a young age, she knew what world she wanted and constantly worked through her ideas about it. She also had the conviction to ground her life in pursuit of Earthseed while bringing people into it. 

This night, this book keep me hopeful and feeling like the world we want is tangible and alive.

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Octavia

Octavia E. Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction writer. A recipient of both the Hugo and Nebula awards, Butler was one of

The Destiny of Earthseed Is to take root among the stars.

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For want of a drink

Finite, vital, much wanted, little understood, water looks unmanageable. But it needn’t be, argues John Grimond (interviewed here)

And these takes from the tweet:

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I took these photos a few years ago when I still lived in San Diego. This is out east, in Campo, a mile from the border.

This land came to mind (this area, specifically) as the group journeyed past Salinas. This is isolated pro-Trump “prepper” land. In the story, they would be the ones who are better equipped with the land, resources, and knowledge needed to survive, because they foresaw the devolution of modern society and prepared accordingly.

One constant, nagging thought that I am leaving the book with is how much I don’t want these anti-immigrant White supremacists who fear everything to be the only ones who survive.

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Moral: The weak can overcome the strong if the weak persist. Persisting isn't always safe, but it's often necessary.

Lauren Olamina (from Sunday, November 22, 2026)

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Octavia Butler - Charlie Rose

Science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler talks about her career and her latest novel "Parable of the Talents."

I wish I had learned about her earlier in my life, but still important that she’s here now. “You get to write yourself in. You get to write yourself in.”