October 22, 2019, Tuesday - The Loft Presents "If": Celebrating Octavia Butler

Time: 7 PM – 8:30 PM

Location: The Loft Literary Center, 1011 Washington Ave S

The Loft Presents "If": Celebrating Octavia Butler

As part of the Loft's fall theme 'If,' join us for a conversation between Autumn Brown and Chaun Webster celebrating one of the most influential speculative fiction writers of all time, Octavia Butler.
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ADVANCE TICKETS:
$10 General Admission
$5 for Loft Members
Pay-what-you-wish at the door, as available.
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AUTUMN BROWN is a visionary fiction and creative nonfiction author, whose work has been featured in PLEASURE ACTIVISM; the PROCYON SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGY; OCTAVIA'S BROOD: SCIENCE FICTION STORIES FROM SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENTS; and REVOLUTIONARY MOTHERING: LOVE ON THE FRONTLINES. Autumn is the co-host of the podcast "How to Survive the End of the World" and she works to support revolutionary social justice movements as a worker-owner with AORTA, the Anti-Oppression Resource & Training Alliance. She lives in Minnesota.

CHAUN WEBSTER is a poet and graphic designer who draws from an interest in graffiti, collage, simultaneity, and the visuality of text. Webster utilizes these methods to investigate race—the instability of blackness and black subjectivities, geography, memory, and the body. These investigations engage the question of absence, archiving what is missing from the landscape as a number of communities watch neighborhoods, once populated with familiar presences, dissolve in the vernacular of redevelopment and its attendant colonial logic. Webster’s debut book, GENTRY!FICATION, OR: THE SCENE OF THE CRIME was published by Noemi Press in 2018 and received the Minnesota Book Award for poetry.