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Raise Every Voice
Many people have had their views disregarded based on their gender, the color of their skin, or both. Here are two women who embody a radical alternative.
In Octavia E. Butler's Afrofuturistic fiction, identity is not fixed. Ethnicity, gender, and even species are constantly shifting. She described her novels not as prophetic, but as "cautionary tales," offered to the present: "The problems that I write about are problems that we can do something about. That's why I write about them."
Dinkins, one of many contemporary artists influenced by Butler's work, describes her sculpture Not The Only One (N'TOO) as "an ongoing experiment, an attempt to create a multigenerational memoir of a black American family told from the perspective of an artificial intelligence (AI) of evolving intellect." Its personality grows over the course of its interactions with people. Each conversation is a unique experience. Sometimes N'TOO is more communicative than at other times. Sometimes it is logical, sometimes it is not. |