Octavia's Parables
By adrienne maree brown & Toshi Reagon
Toshi Reagon and adrienne maree brown. Produced by Kat Aaron.
Octavia's Parables Jun 16, 2020
Mind of My Mind: Chapter 12
Toshi Reagon and adrienne maree brown discuss and analyze Chapter 12 of Octavia E. Butler's book, Mind of My Mind. And as always, offer questions for you and your people to consider.
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Mind of My Mind: Chapter 11
Toshi Reagon and adrienne maree brown discuss and analyze Chapter 11 of Octavia E. Butler's book, Mind of My Mind. And as always, offer questions for you and your people to consider.
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Mind of My Mind: Chapter 10
Toshi Reagon and adrienne maree brown discuss and analyze Chapter 10 of Octavia E. Butler's book, Mind of My Mind. And as always, offer questions for you and your people to consider.
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Mind of My Mind: Chapter 9
Toshi Reagon and adrienne maree brown discuss and analyze Chapter 9 of Octavia E. Butler's book, Mind of My Mind. And as always, offer questions for you and your people to consider.
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Mind of My Mind: Chapter 8
Toshi Reagon and adrienne maree brown discuss and analyze Chapter 8 of Octavia E. Butler's book, Mind of My Mind. And as always, offer questions for you and your people to consider.
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Mind of My Mind: Chapter 7
Toshi Reagon and adrienne maree brown discuss and analyze Chapter 7 of Octavia E. Butler's book, Mind of My Mind. And as always, offer questions for you and your people to consider.
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Mind of My Mind: Chapter 6
Toshi Reagon and adrienne maree brown discuss and analyze Chapter 6 of Octavia E. Butler's book, Mind of My Mind. And as always, offer questions for you and your people to consider.
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Mind of My Mind: Chapter 5
Toshi Reagon and adrienne maree brown discuss and analyze Chapter 5 of Octavia E. Butler's book, Mind of My Mind. And as always, offer questions for you and your people to consider.
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Mind of My Mind: Chapter 4
Toshi Reagon and adrienne maree brown discuss and analyze Chapter 4 of Octavia E. Butler's book, Mind of My Mind. And as always, offer questions for you and your people to consider.
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Mind of My Mind: Chapter 3
Mary is in her transition, a perilous time. Others with her strength have not survived. Karl rushes home to support her - aid she rejects, at first. But as her transition peaks, she pulls his mind to hers. And then, she can't let him go. The pattern has begun.
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Mind of My Mind: Chapter 2
Toshi Reagon and adrienne maree brown discuss and analyze Chapter 2 of Octavia E. Butler's book, Mind of My Mind. And as always, offer questions for you and your people to consider.
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Mind of My Mind: Chapter 1
Toshi Reagon and adrienne maree brown discuss and analyze Chapter 1 of Octavia E. Butler's book, Mind of My Mind. And as always, offer questions for you and your people to consider.
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Mind of My Mind: Prologue
We are once again with Doro and Anyanwu, who we left at the end of Wild Seed - but we are now in modern times. Doro has continued to breed his powerful offspring, with the same flawed results, full of suffering. Anyanwu, going by Emma now, continues to carry the weight of his cavalier arrogance.
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Wild Seed: Chapter 14
Toshi Reagon and adrienne maree brown discuss and analyze Chapter 14 of Octavia E. Butler's book, Wild Seed. And as always, offer questions for you and your people to consider.
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Wild Seed: Chapter 13
Toshi Reagon and adrienne maree brown discuss and analyze Chapter 13 of Octavia E. Butler's book, Wild Seed. And as always, offer questions for you and your people to consider.
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Wild Seed: Chapter 12
Toshi Reagon and adrienne maree brown discuss and analyze Chapter 12 of Octavia E. Butler's book, Wild Seed. And as always, offer questions for you and your people to consider.
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Wild Seed: Chapter 11
Toshi Reagon and adrienne maree brown discuss and analyze Chapter 11 of Octavia E. Butler's book, Wild Seed. And as always, offer questions for you and your people to consider.
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Wild Seed: Chapter 10
Toshi Reagon and adrienne maree brown discuss and analyze Chapter 10 of Octavia E. Butler's book, Wild Seed. And as always, offer questions for you and your people to consider.
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Wild Seed: Chapter 9
Toshi Reagon and adrienne maree brown discuss and analyze Chapter 9 of Octavia E. Butler's book, Wild Seed. And as always, offer questions for you and your people to consider.
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Wild Seed: Chapter 8
Toshi Reagon and adrienne maree brown discuss and analyze Chapter 8 of Octavia E. Butler's book, Wild Seed. And as always, offer questions for you and your people to consider.
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Wild Seed: Chapter 7
Toshi Reagon and adrienne maree brown discuss and analyze Chapter 7 of Octavia E. Butler's book, Wild Seed. And as always, offer questions for you and your people to consider.
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Wild Seed: Chapter 6
Toshi Reagon and adrienne maree brown discuss and analyze Chapter 6 of Octavia E. Butler's book, Wild Seed. And as always, offer questions for you and your people to consider.
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Wild Seed: Chapter 5
Anyanwu reveals more of her capacities to Doro and her shipmates. Her danger, her hunger, her transformations. Isaac’s powers become more clear. And Octavia graces us with some of her most sensual writing, on the pleasures of being a dolphin.
Toshi and adrienne explore chapter 5 of Octavia E. Butler’s Wild Seed. And as always, offer questions for you and your people to consider.
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Wild Seed: Chapter 4
Toshi Reagon and adrienne maree brown discuss and analyze Chapter 4 of Octavia E. Butler's book, Wild Seed. And as always, offer questions for you and your people to consider.
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Wild Seed: Chapter 3
Toshi Reagon and adrienne maree brown discuss and analyze Chapter 3 of Octavia E. Butler's book, Wild Seed. And as always, offer questions for you and your people to consider.
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Wild Seed: Chapter 2
Toshi Reagon and adrienne maree brown discuss and analyze Chapter 2 of Octavia E. Butler's book, Wild Seed. And as always, offer questions for you and your people to consider.
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Wild Seed: Chapter 1
Toshi Reagon and adrienne maree brown discuss and analyze Chapter 1 of Octavia E. Butler's book, Wild See. And as always, offer questions for you and your people to consider.
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Parable of the Talents: Epilogue
Larkin/Asha meets her “charismatic, dangerous, heathen” mother, Lauren. Our understanding of the timeline deepens. Marc’s duplicity continues to cause discord and heartbreak. And Earthseed does, finally, take root among the stars.
Toshi and adrienne break down the epilogue of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Talents. And offer some final questions (of this series!) for you and your people to consider.
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We'll be back later in August with a conversation with Alexis Pauline Gumbs. And later, we'll be launching our exploration of the Wild Seed series. Stay tuned.
Parable of the Talents: Chapter 21
All about Larkin. The final chapter. She’s living in New York. Reconnected with uncle Marc, and the church. She knows her mother’s identity, with mixed awareness. Some of her childhood dreams have come true. And yet. Meanwhile, Lauren is gathering her people, with seduction and a chance at a purpose. And still, always, hunting for her daughter.
To survive, know the past. Let it touch you. Then let the past go.
Toshi and adrienne break down Chapter 21 of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Talents. And as always, offer questions for you and your people to consider. Back next week, with the epilogue.
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Parable of the Talents: Chapter 20
Toshi Reagon and adrienne maree brown discuss and analyze Chapter 20 of Octavia E. Butler's book, Parable of the Talents. And as always, offer questions for you and your people to consider.
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Parable of the Talents: Chapter 19
Toshi Reagon and adrienne maree brown discuss and analyze Chapter 19 of Octavia E. Butler's book, Parable of the Talents. And as always, offer questions for you and your people to consider.
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Parable of the Talents: Chapter 17
Once again, we travel with Lauren and with Larkin. Larkin searches to understand her mother. Lauren searches for Larkin, alone despite herself. The children of Acorn are still missing, almost all of them. Lauren braves a Christian America shelter, navigating her terror and trauma. And she sees a familiar, unwelcome, hypocritical face.
Toshi and adrienne break down Chapter 17 of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Talents. And as always, offer questions for you and your people to consider. Big, deep questions this week.
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Back Next Week
Hello beloved listeners! The Parables team needed this week to rest and heal. Back next week with Chapter 16 of our journey through Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Talents.
Parable of the Talents: Chapter 16
Toshi Reagon and adrienne maree brown discuss and analyze Chapter 16 of Octavia E. Butler's book, Parable of the Talents. And as always, offer questions for you and your people to consider.
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Parable of the Talents: Chapter 15
Toshi Reagon and adrienne maree brown discuss and analyze Chapter 15 of Octavia E. Butler's book, Parable of the Talents. And as always, offer questions for you and your people to consider.
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Parable of the Talents: Ch 14
A dense, bruising, painful chapter.
A year has passed. A year of enslavement at Camp Christian. With an escape attempt, and its consequences. And a brutal, wasteful, pointless war.
We learn more of Larkin’s childhood life in her adoptive family, with its cruelties and violations.
Sickness strikes Camp Christian. A betrayal. A storm. And liberation.
Toshi and adrienne explore chapter 14 of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Talents, and as always, offer questions for you and your people to consider.
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Links:
More on the death row prisoner who traveled in his imagination, who adrienne references, here: https://blog.pshares.org/just-mercy-visiting-a-local-prison-with-former-death-row-inmate-anthony-ray-hinton/
Parable of the Talents: Ch 13
Trigger warnings: sexual violence, rape.
We learn what happened to Larkin, and where the children went. We learn how the women of Acorn survive, day by day, and how they maneuver. New alliances are cautiously forming, at great risk. And the sexual violence is a constant presence. We grapple with the pleasure of power, and its consequences.
Toshi and adrienne explore chapter 13 of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Talents, and as always, offer questions for you and your people to consider.
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Parable of the Talents: Chapter 12
Toshi Reagon and adrienne maree brown discuss and analyze Chapter 12 of Octavia E. Butler's book, Parable of the Talents. And as always, offer questions for you and your people to consider.
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Parable of the Talents: Chapter 11
Toshi Reagon and adrienne maree brown discuss and analyze Chapter 11 of Octavia E. Butler's book, Parable of the Talents. And as always, offer questions for you and your people to consider.
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Parable of the Talents: Chapter 10
Our narrator is born, and named, and welcomed. Lauren and Bankole discuss a move, again. Assessing danger, seen and unseen. Bankole tries to understand, again, how he and Lauren can shape the unknown. She shows him more of her self, this far in.
Toshi and adrienne explore chapter 10 of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Talents, and offer questions for you and your people to consider. Not easy chapters, not easy questions.
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Links:
Breathe, the second Marine Mammal Meditation, by Toshi and Alexis Pauline Gumbs, is here on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/longwatersong
Parable of the Talents: Chapter 9
Marcus leaves, with the Peraltas. Dan Noyer returns, chased. A fierce battle. Lauren speaks words she can’t take back. Jarrett is ascendant.
Toshi and adrienne explore chapter 9 of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Talents, and offer questions for you and your people to consider. Not easy chapters, not easy questions.
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Links:
Breathe, the second Marine Mammal Meditation, by Toshi and Alexis Pauline Gumbs, is here on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/longwatersong
The Parable of the Sower graphic novel is available here: https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/parable-of-the-sower-a-graphic-novel-adaptation_9781419731334/
Parable of the Talents: Chapter 8
Lauren and Bankole visit Halstead. Some in Acorn encourage them to move; Lauren remains adamant. Marcus preaches, and finds out.
Toshi and adrienne explore chapter 8 of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Talents, offer questions for you and your people to consider, and dream of some fan-fiction crossovers.
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LINKS from this episode:
The Cal Shakes Theater Under the Stars event will be in May - check here for announcements: https://calshakes.org
Harriet’s Apothecary: http://www.harrietsapothecary.com/who-we-are
The Tarot Deck will be at http://www.akpress.org
Parable of the Talents: Chapter 7
Toshi Reagon and adrienne maree brown discuss and analyze Chapter 7 of Octavia E. Butler's book, Parable of the Talents. And as always, offer questions for you and your people to consider.
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Parable of the Talents: Chapter 6
Toshi Reagon and adrienne maree brown discuss and analyze Chapter 6 of Octavia E. Butler's book, Parable of the Talents. And as always, offer questions for you and your people to consider.
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Parable of the Talents: Chapter 5
Toshi Reagon and adrienne maree brown discuss and analyze Chapter 5 of Octavia E. Butler's book, Parable of the Talents. And as always, offer questions for you and your people to consider.
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Parable of the Talents: Chapter 4
Acorn welcomes a baby. They hold ceremony. They assess the impact of the house truck, and we get a window into Acorn’s decision-making structures. They navigate the survival of ambiguous loss. God may be change, but some still fear it.
Toshi and adrienne explore Chapter 4 of Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Talents. And as always, offer questions for you and your people to consider.
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Parable of the Talents: Chapter 3
We hear the horrible ordinary story of how the house-truck family came to Acorn. And with Acorn, they bury their dead.
Toshi and adrienne explore Chapter 3 of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Talents. And come with many questions for you and your people to consider.
TW: this chapter and episode include mention of rape.
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Parable of the Talents: Chapter 2
Toshi Reagon and adrienne maree brown discuss and analyze Chapter 2 of Octavia E. Butler's book, Parable of the Talents. And as always, offer questions for you and your people to consider.
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Parable of the Talents: Chapter 1
Toshi Reagon and adrienne maree brown discuss and analyze Chapter 1 of Octavia E. Butler's book, Parable of the Talents. And as always, offer questions for you and your people to consider.
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Parable of the Sower: Chapter 25
Our travelers land. But not as they expected. They grieve, and they live. They sow seeds.
adrienne and Toshi close out Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower, with the final chapter of this crucial work. And as always, offer questions for you and your people to consider.
adrienne and Toshi will be on Instagram Live on 12/16, at 6 pm EST, talking about Parable of the Sower, this podcast journey, and what's to come. Tune in here, at adrienne's Instagram page.
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We will be back in February with Parable of the Talents.
Links:
More info on Alexis Pauline Gumbs's God Is Change Octavia Immersion is here: https://sangodare.podia.com/octavia