Mother Jones profiled my work in a piece titled “Octavia Butler Predicted Our Dystopian Present. What Can a Futurist Learn From Her Chilling Accuracy?” — exploring how Butler’s fiction continues to function as some of the most rigorous futures analysis ever produced.
The piece digs into what it means to build a speculative practice from Butler’s core conviction: that all organizing is science fiction, that the futures we can imagine are the futures we can build, and that the people who’ve had to survive the hardest presents are often the most clear-eyed about what’s coming.
