***Online event - Zoom link will be sent to you on the day of the event*** Cliterature, the Vagina Museum's book club, offers you a generous and satisfying fingering through the feminist pages. Well include a mixture of fiction, non-fiction, essays and poetry. Everyone is welcome. Our book club is led by former trustee, Niharika Jain.
About the book:
The marker you should judge all other time-travelling narratives by GUARDIAN
[Her] evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race,
sex, power and, ultimately, what it means to be human NEW YORK TIMES
No novel Ive read this year has felt as relevant, as gut-wrenching or as
essential . . . If youve ever tweeted All Lives Matter, someone needs to
shove Kindred into your hand, and quickly CAROLINE ODONOGHUE
In 1976, Dana dreams of being a writer. In 1815, she is assumed a slave.
When Dana first meets Rufus on a Maryland plantation, hes drowning. She saves
his life and it will happen again and again.
Neither of them understands his power to summon her whenever his life is
threatened, nor the significance of the ties that bind them.
And each time Dana saves him, the more aware she is that her own life might
be over before its even begun.
This is the extraordinary story of two people bound by blood, separated by so
much more than time.
About the author:
Octavia E Butler (1947-2006) was the renowned author of numerous
ground-breaking novels, including Kindred, Wild Seed, and Parable of the
Sower. Recipient of the Locus, Hugo and Nebula awards, and a PEN Lifetime
Achievement Award for her body of work, in 1995 she became the first
science-fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Fellowship 'Genius Grant'. A
pioneer of her genre, Octavia's dystopian novels explore myriad themes of
Black injustice, women's rights, global warming and political disparity, and
her work is taught in over two hundred colleges and universities
nationwide.
In 2020, Octavia E. Butler became a New York Times bestselling author.
How to get the book:
If you can, try to get your hands on a copy via your local independent
bookshop or library as a physical book, e-book or audiobook.
As this is a participatory event by nature, not a performance, anyone who
doesn't engage - which can via audio, text, or any method accessible to you -
will be automatically removed to ensure safety of all participants. Dont
worry if youve not finished the book in time for the session, having read
some or most of it will help you take part in our discussion.
Live transcription will be enabled on Zoom for all our events. If you need a
transcript after the event, please email us at [email protected] to get
a copy.
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