A flyer commemorating 20 years of Octavia E. Butler with So Be It! See To It! and 2026 in gold at the bottom

Today, February 24, 2026, marks 20 years since the passing of Octavia E. Butler.

We honor her today. We honor her everyday.

Learn about two events today honoring her today: oebsociety.substack.com/p/so-be-it-s...

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Quote from Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis series: How stupid to be sick and know where there was healing and decided to stay sick

Rereading the Xenogenesis series from the maestro herself - Octavia E. Butler predicted all of this!
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"Earthseed: The Books of the Living.

Purpose
Unifies us:
It focuses our dreams,
Guides our plans,
Strengthen our efforts.

Purpose
Defines us,
Shapes us,
And offers us
Greatness."

Parable of the Talents
by Octavia E. Butler

#OctaviaKnew #Purpose #ParableOfTheTalents #OctaviaButler

"Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the the intelligence of many to achieve group adaptation." ~ Earthseed: The Books of the Living.

Octavia E. Butler, The Parable of the Sower

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Why the internet is still obsessed with Octavia E. Butler, years after her death A new biography reveals the innermost thoughts of the groundbreaking novelist whose work in the 1980s and ’90s predicted our lives right now.

In “Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler,” author and college professor Susana M. Morris shares the quiet yet radical story of Octavia Butler’s life. But why is social media obsessed with Butler?
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www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...

I love Octavia Butler #OctaviaKnew

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Why the internet is still obsessed with Octavia E. Butler, years after her death A new biography reveals the innermost thoughts of the groundbreaking novelist whose work in the 1980s and ’90s predicted our lives right now.

We have to be able to face our worst fears in order to predict and plan. In “Parable of the Talents,” published in 1998 and set in the 2020s, Butler introduces a conservative presidential candidate who urges voters to join him in a project to “make America great again.”

#OctaviaKnew #ParablePath

Why the internet is still obsessed with Octavia E. Butler, years after her death A new biography reveals the innermost thoughts of the groundbreaking novelist whose work in the 1980s and ’90s predicted our lives right now.

POSITIVE OBSESSION is in NBC News today! Such a lovely piece about Susana Morris’s biography of Octavia Butler and highlighting the #OctaviaKnew trend. The book is on sale 8/19 💫

Bingo. #octaviaknew

Have to say, I'm teaching #parableofthesower again right now & it has me and my students both terrified and utterly in awe of #octaviaEbutler's prophetic power #octaviaknew

Octavia Butler’s Prescient Vision of a Zealot Elected to “Make America Great Again” In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time, Butler’s “Parable” books may be unmatched.

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Octavia Butler’s Prescient Vision of a Zealot Elected to “Make America Great Again” In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time, Butler’s “Parable” books may be unmatched.

#OctaviaKnew www.newyorker.com/books/second...

#octaviaknew

I understand! I’ve been reading Parable of the Sower for almost 2 years as I can’t turn too many pages at a time as it’s so close ~ it’s here! #OctaviaKnew

Black Sci-Fi Writer Octavia Butler Predicted the Dystopia of the LA Fires by Studying History This week, her hometown of Pasadena has seen at least 5 killed and 5 schools burned to ash.

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If more people read this book we wouldn’t be in this situation that we’re in. #Octaviaknew

I walk over many acorns on my way to work and often think about how I need to be collecting them to make flour. I tried once and failed - gotta try again! #octaviaknew

Finished rereading Parable of the Sower today in preparation for teaching next week. The lessons of this text! #Afrofuturism #octaviabutler #octaviaknew