Octavia E. Butler: Octavia's Brood, co-edited by adrienne maree brown, takes its title from her work. Credit: John Jennings.
I've been facilitating visioning sessions for organizers for a while now. We get together and imagine the world as we say we want to see it. There are often themes - gardens and local food, schools, children safe and free, abundant water, gender fluidity or equality, and the absence of isms, injustice, prisons, violence.
We articulate these things with each other and affirm our visions, and then we go back to our work and lives, where the majority of our practices run counter to the utopian visions we espouse. We are punitive with each other, with our families, with our friends, in our movements. We hoard and waste resources. We laugh at difference, we hide our hearts.
