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Thank you for rocking with the OEBLS this year!
Counting down to 2026! Check out our 2025 recap:
open.substack.com/pub/oebsocie...
#OctaviaButler #GodIsChange #PositiveObsession #wildseed #parableofthesower
Snapshot of presenters at the 2025 PAMLA Conference. The session title is at the top and centered "Octavia E. Butler's Oeuvre." Picture from L-R are the presenters, Robert Barrett, Mary-Antoinette Smith, and Jennie Baker
The Octavia E. Butler Literary Society co-sponsored a panel at PAMLA 2025, for its 122nd Annual Conference held in in San Francisco November 20-23. The session, titled "Octavia E. Butler's Oeuvre," was organized by Jade Saffery and featured 3 panelists!
#OctaviaButler #Earthseed #GodIsChange
Image title says "The Category is Thankful" and includes 4 books published on or about Octavia E. Butler. The books are the graphic novel adaptation of Parable of the Talents by Damian Duffy, John Jennings, and David Brame (top left), Understanding Octavia E. Butler by Kendra R. Parker (top right); Octavia E. Butler: H is for Horse by Chi-Ming Yang (bottom left); Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler by Susana M. Morris (bottom right)
We're thankful for everyone keeping Butler's spirit alive.
Check out these 4 works, published this year, that are helping to do just that.
#OctaviaButler #GodIsChange #BlackSciFi #blackwriters #blackwomenwriters #Earthseed
Interestingly her non-deistic "Earthseed" religion of "God is change, change is god" has actually been adopted by people. It feels like a repackaging of humanist principles with an emphasis on change.
godischange.org/about/
#earthseed #godischange
My oldest child just had their middle school graduation ceremony, and is headed off to high school this fall. 😱
#GodIsChange
The Book of the Living, verse 1: God is Change
All that you touch
You Change.
All that you Change
Changes you.
The only lasting truth
Is Change.
God
Is Change.
-Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower
#OctaviaButler #ParableoftheSower #GodisChange #quotes #scifi #womenauthors #collapse #change
I've finished #ParableOfTheTalents and boy howdy. I'm now going over A Conversation With #OctaviaEButler in the back of the book. She was #Earthseed. I think she would have eaten this administration up. #booksky #godischange #currentlyreading
A picture looking up into a tree photographed in Ecuador in the town of Napo within the province of Napo. Text in the top left quadrant says, “3. A gift of God A gift of God May sear unready fingers. ∞ = Δ”
The Book of the Living, verse 24: Kindness
Kindness eases Change.
∞ = Δ
#GodIsChange
If you are not ignorant of history then you can and must shape your present to take the next generation forward into a better future.
#GodIsChange ♾️=🔺
I think this should be required reading for every incoming freshman in the country.
#GodIsChange ♾️=🔺
Just finished the book. Octavia called it.
#GodIsChange #ShapeGod
The book "Loving Corrections" sits beside a still-wrapped Lineage of Change tarot deck.
I just got my #LineageOfChange #Tarot deck and it is a full on enchantment. A #spell, a gift to this world. Thank you @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social you are generous beyond words. #GodIsChange #Magic #Change #Spellcraft #Growth
