Octavia Butler
She was the only science fiction writer to win this grant.
What is the "genius" grant from the John D. and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation?
Humans learned to burn, behead or drive a wooden stake through the Ina for this reason.
What is that they could heal when they were buried and rise from the grave.
Ethnocentrism
What is the attitude that one's own group, ethnicity, or nationality is superior to others?
This character's father is one of the Gordon's symbionts.
Who is Joel Harrison?
"Do you love me, Shori, or do I just taste good?"
Who is Wright?
She claimed this movie prompted her to write science fiction.
What is "Devil Girl from Mars"?
This is the number of people who attacked Punta Nublada.
What is 18?
Miscegenation
What is “marriage or cohabitation between two people from different racial groups, especially, in the U.S., between a Black person and a white person”?
These characters are the Gordon's elderfathers.
Who is Hayden and Preston?
"Shoot them - now!"
She grew up in this city.
What is Pasadena?
Brook realizes this when Shori is questioning Victor.
What is that he had attacked Punta Nublada because he was under mind-control of an Ina?
Majoritarian
What is how “decisions of an organized group” should be made by the majority of its members. It refers to the traditional idea where the “numerical majority of a given population” has the right to make important decisions that affect their very society
These characters are the elderfathers of the Silks.
Who are Russel and Milo?
Who is Victor Colon?
Name of the story about aliens who bred eggs in human flesh.
What is "Bloodchild"?
Shori learns this about her venom after she questions the men the Silks sent.
What is that her venom is more powerful than other male Ina, allowing Victor to answer her question and stay alive?
What is “the fear or dislike of anything that is perceived as being foreign or strange. It is an expression that is based on the perception that a conflict exists between an in-group and an out-group"?
The names of the first Ina females Shori remembers meeting.
Who are Zoe and Helena Fotopoulos?
"I don't think they would believe me. I'm 372 years old. I think they might feel that someone my age might be able to lie to them successfully."
Who is Hayden Gordon?
The names of the three book series she wrote.
What is the Patternist, Xenogenisis or Lilith's Brood and the Parable series?
The name of the book Shori is reading about Ina culture.
What is The Book of the Goddess?
Afrofuturist Feminism
What is a "reflection of the shared central tenets of Afrofuturism and black feminist thought and reflects a literary tradition in which people of African descent and transgressive, feminist practices born of or from across the Afrodiaspora are key to a progressive future"
These characters are the daughters of Shori's father's father's father.
Who are Joan and Margaret Braithwaite?
"I thought it sounded more like slavery than symbiosis."
Who is Martin Harrison?