Octavia Butler Turned Black Girls into Sci-Fi Heros

Octavia Butler didn't see herself represented in sci-fi, which was mostly male and mostly white. And so she created her own world and was cited by Ava DuVernay as an inspiration to adapt 'A Wrinkle in Time.'

• 2018-03-15T23:03:31+00:00
• Duration: 05:00

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idioma EN, Producto TIMELINE, Categoria Society, Culture, Subcategoria History, Feminism, Curiosities, Octavia Butler, afrofuturism, science fiction, fiction, literature, books, novels, feminism, black lives matter, representation, black history, TMLN_00209_EN