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Motherland Fashion

Can someone recreate this dress 😍😍

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Incredible boldness. Such a beautiful hueman. #naturistvibe

Rosario Dawson

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Black & Beautiful Magazine (1969)

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Next level gorgeous.

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The Visualizers

1. Kara Walker

2. Jean Michel Basquiat

3. Minnie Evans

4. Kehinde Wiley

5. Kerry James Marshall

6. Romare Bearden

7. Faith Ringgold

8. Ernie Barnes

9. Lois Mailou Jones

10. Kadir Nelson

….Legendary!

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Art…

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Watermelanin. Beautiful...

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MOOD

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Retrofuturism

(adjective retrofuturistic or retrofuture) is a movement in the creative arts showing the influence of depictions of the future produced in an earlier era.

Afrofuturism…

is an intersection of imagination, technology, the future, and liberation. “I generally define Afrofuturism as a way of imagining possible futures through a black cultural lens,” says Ingrid LaFleur, an art curator and Afrofuturist.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, OCTAVIA ESTELLE BUTLER!

June 22nd, 2024 would have Butler's 77th birthday. Her work, from Parable of the Sower to Wild Seed, continues to impact disciplines from literature to entrepreneurship to space travel. Last Tuesday, Butler's essay, "A Few Rules for Predicting the Future" originally included in @Essence in 2000, was published by @chroniclebooks with beautiful Afrofuturist artwork by Manzel Bowman (@artxman).

Butler's writing inspires activists from @ToshiReagon to Alexis Pauline Gumbs (@alexispauline), @adriennemareebrown, @WalidahImarisha to Gabrielle Wyatt Gardner (@glwyatt). Reagon created the cultural experience Parable of the Sower The Opera, which engages with communities to take meaningful actions towards climate justice. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, adrienne maree brown, and Walidah Imarisha published the "Octavia Butler Strategic Reader" and "Octavia's Brood." Gabrielle Wyatt Gardner founded The Highland Project, a nonprofit investing in the sustainability and multi-generational visions of Black women leaders designing solutions for structural change.

Swipe to be inspired by Butler's powerful call to "write yourself in," check out her literary canon, and admire artwork from "A Few Rules For Predicting the Future!"

Let us know how Octavia E. Butler inspires your life and work in the comments!

Attribution:

Image 1: @leadhighland

Video: The Charlie Rose Show, @PBS

Image 2: @theelithouse feature books published by @orbitbooks_us @hachetteus @7StoryPress

Image 3: Chronicle Books

#TheeLitHouse #octaviabutler #octaviaebutler #bestbookstackever #bookstagrammers #blackbookstagrammer #blackgirlsread #octaviaebutler #sistahscifi #Afrofuturism #ParableoftheSower #OctaviasBrood #TheHighlandProject #blackOwnedBookstore

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Phenomenal #nubiancore

LAETITIA B.R.