@booklet {11449, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Space Traitors{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Buckman Journal}, volume = {no. 3}, year = {2019}, note = {

Rpt. in Black Sci-Fi Short Stories: An Anthology of New \& Classic Stories (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2021), 324-28.

}, month = {2019}, pages = {9-15}, abstract = {

The story is headed by the statement \“In conversation with Derrick Bell\’s short story \‘Space Traders\’\” (See Bell 1992). In this story, the aliens offer to improve the lives of all the \“scarred people\” of Earth.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {978-1-83964-480-1}, author = {Walidah Imarisha} } @booklet {8213, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Black Angel{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Octavia{\textquoteright}s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements}, year = {2015}, month = {2015}, pages = {43-55}, publisher = {AK Press and the Institute for Anarchist Studies}, address = {Oakland, CA}, abstract = {

Dystopia on Harlem in the near future where both official and unofficial violence is endemic.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Walidah Imarisha}, editor = {Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown (b. 1978)} } @booklet {8233, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Children Who Fly{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Octavia{\textquoteright}s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements}, year = {2015}, month = {2015}, pages = {249-53}, publisher = {AK Press and the Institute for Anarchist Studies}, address = {Oakland, CA}, abstract = {

Climate-warming dystopia with LSBT themes.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Female author, US author}, author = {Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (b. 1975)}, editor = {Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown (b. 1978)} } @booklet {8209, title = {"Evidence"}, howpublished = {Octavia{\textquoteright}s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements}, year = {2015}, month = {2015}, pages = {33-41}, publisher = {AK Press and the Institute for Anarchist Studies}, address = {Oakland, CA}, abstract = {

The story looks back from a future eutopia to the dystopian past of the twenty-first century, known as the period \“Before Silence Broke,\” with the period \“Breaking the Silence\” seen as the beginning of the changes that brought about the eutopia. The eutopia which has eliminated capitalism, money, and private property is an open society where everyone is encouraged to develop in their own unique way with a twelve-year-old from the future writing to the author describing a little of the life.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {978-1-84935-209-3}, author = {Alexis Pauline Gumbs}, editor = {Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown (b. 1978)} } @booklet {8229, title = {"Hollow"}, howpublished = {Octavia{\textquoteright}s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements}, year = {2015}, month = {2015}, pages = {109-21}, publisher = {AK Press and the Institute for Anarchist Studies}, address = {Oakland, CA}, abstract = {

The story is about a future in which all disabled people (known as U.P.s or UnPerfects) have been sent to another planet where they have created a good life for themselves but are threatened with the Perfects, or the ones who sent them, coming to take over and create a new dystopia for them.

}, keywords = {Female author, Korean author, US author}, author = {Meg Mingus}, editor = {Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown (b. 1978)} } @booklet {8226, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Homing Instinct{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Octavia{\textquoteright}s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements}, year = {2015}, month = {2015}, pages = {239-47}, publisher = {AK Press and the Institute for Anarchist Studies}, address = {Oakland, CA}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which climate change moves the U.S. government to tell people to move to where they want to live permanently with travel no longer permitted. The story focuses on a woman\’s decision on how to respond.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Dani McClain}, editor = {Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown (b. 1978)} }