Carolina QuotesScience fiction is the perfect "exploring ground," as it gives us the opportunity to play with different outcomes and strategies before we have to deal with the real-world costs.
adrienne maree brown Carolinian
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- Outro to Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements (2015)
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- 2015
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