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It's About Leaving A Mark: Octavia Butler's "Kindred"


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I couldn't imagine waking up one day to my home and life inexplicably ripped from me, surrounded by the antiquity of plantation-style homes and cries of pain amidst fields of crops and enslaved persons toiling about. Dana is made to endure the world that follows in our stead when we imagine plots of progression and equity just beyond the horizon. Slavery and racism lies in the ground, flows through time, and carries itself in the present. It follows Dana and it follows us as we tune into the newest episode of the podcast. BYYEEE!!!!

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