Strive to understand people you perceive as different from you
Tell a truly outrageous pun
Eat a bacon sandwich
Stand up against an oppressive authority (up to and including punching them)
Sing a bawdy song including wizard’s staffs and/or hedgehogs
Consider the importance of Angels
Demand a free but responsible press
Forge a sword out of a meteorite. If you do not have one on hand, store-bought is fine
Take responsibility for your actions, be they good or bad or neither
Recognize there is injustice in the world, but refuse to accept it
Look Up
If you have the hattitude, doff a nice-looking chapeau of some kind
Make time for the things that matter
Live.
Do you get it now? Without due process, everyone is at risk. How are you going to prove your citizenship otherwise?
I wanted to share this cool picture I found in the ebook version of Dawn, at the end of the book.
"Butler with authors Tananarive Due, Jewelle Gomez (standing), Samuel R. Delany, and Steven Barnes (sitting) at Clark Atlanta University’s conference for African American science fiction writers—the first of its kind—in 1997."
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I love this picture of Octavia Butler with fellow Black Sci Fi writers in 1997! (I turned 7 years old that year) I wish I was older at the time so I could have been there 😊 It would have been amazing to see these five in the 90s, just writing sci fi and making a way for future Black sci fi writers.
So much talent in one image, wow.
fucking relatable master yupa
national identities were a hoax invented by Big Nineteenth Century to sell more fascism
a dude came into the library stoned out of his mind and was like, “do I need a library card to look at books?” And I said, “to take books home, yes. To look at them, no” and he looked so relieved. bro was staring at a fish encyclopedia for like an hour and then just left.
no i did not hear what you said the love in my heart is too loud
General interest @culturesinglarityGay shit and lots of dicks @demon-core-incidentDeep Space Nine relevance @temba-his-arms-wideHorny men's tailoring @captaindadsmenshosiery Pfp courtesy of @anonymous-leemur
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