I feel like if there was a homework assignment for us or like multiple homework assignments,

one of them is to think how do we use technology to deepen the patterns that we want to grow

rather than just participate in the patterns that we actually say we are

against. I'm on a body juice. I'm gonna start now I'm on to start now. I'm Autumn Brown, a queer science fiction writer, a theologian, a mother of dragons,

and a healing justice facilitator for social movements living in rural Minnesota.

And I'm Aager Marie Brown, author of Emergent Strategy, co-editor of Octavia's Brood,

writer, facilitator of black liberation work,

Auntie Extraordinaire, Dula, and pleasure activist living in Detroit.

And this is how to survive the end of the world.

Our podcast about learning from apocalypse with grace, rigor, and curiosity.

In today's show, we are really excited. We're going to do a deep dive into a series of

novels that Octavia Butler wrote that is referred to as the patternist series.

But what what what Paterness? patternist series. The novels in this series. The novels in this series include Wild Seed Survivor, Mind of My Mind,

Klaise Arc, and Pattern Master.

And we're gonna get in a little while

into more of a little synopsis of each of those stories, but we wanted to tee you up with

some exciting pieces before we get into the books themselves.

As always we wanted to begin with a quote

from Octavia Butler's work

and today we decided to start with a quote from Wild Seed,

which is one of the most popular books

in the Patternist series.

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