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Today's Reading:
From: Black Futures
Far Beyond the Stars
By Octavia Butler scholar, Dr. Ayana Jamieson.
The Octavia E Butler collection of literary manuscripts housed at the Huntington library is a vast archive comprising more than 8000 individually cataloged items that span Butler’s four decade long career. Octavia kept everything from grade school report cards, personal journals, letters, brochures, notes, drafts, unpublished writing, grocery lists to photographs, library calls slips and much more.
She kept drafts and photocopies of letters she wrote. Her imperative to deliberately and consciously shape her own legacy was driven by the facts of her life and identity, a nexus where black experience, womanism and history intersected. Her collection reminds us what we have, what we've lost what can be gained by leaving behind self curated libraries.
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By Practice WilliamsToday's Reading:
From: Black Futures
Far Beyond the Stars
By Octavia Butler scholar, Dr. Ayana Jamieson.
The Octavia E Butler collection of literary manuscripts housed at the Huntington library is a vast archive comprising more than 8000 individually cataloged items that span Butler’s four decade long career. Octavia kept everything from grade school report cards, personal journals, letters, brochures, notes, drafts, unpublished writing, grocery lists to photographs, library calls slips and much more.
She kept drafts and photocopies of letters she wrote. Her imperative to deliberately and consciously shape her own legacy was driven by the facts of her life and identity, a nexus where black experience, womanism and history intersected. Her collection reminds us what we have, what we've lost what can be gained by leaving behind self curated libraries.