via @Afrofuturaffair:-
…’Childfinder’ asks us to remember the sacrifices required to break from established systems of power, yet also contributes a bleak perspective on how even a successfully disruptive political movement might regardless be doomed to inhabit only its own particular historical moment. As in many of Butler’s other stories, the long run of human time washes over all, leaving less in its wake than ever imagined. By Marisa Parham on Octavia Butler via findingestella (via rachelsedelman)