the decolonization of the imagination is the most dangerous and subversive form there is: for it is where all other forms of decolonization are born.… - Walidah Imarisha

I think the only true liberation can come from centering those folks who have been most marginalized.

Whenever we try to envision a world without war, without violence, without prisons, without capitalism, we are engaging in speculative fiction. All organizing is science fiction. Organizers and activists dedicate their lives to creating and envisioning another world, or many other worlds-so what better venue for organizers to explore their work than science fiction stories? That is the premise behind the book you hold in your hands.

Changes will occur that we cannot even begin to imagine, and the next generation will be both utterly familiar and wholly alien to their parents. We believe this is what it means to carry on Octavia Butler's legacy of writing visionary fiction.