Parable of the Talents
Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Talents, the sequel to Parable of the Sower, continues the story of Lauren Olamina through both her own voice and that of her estranged daughter. We explore all that Lauren loses on the path of destiny, and all that she learns about our survival beyond apocalypse.
Please join us as we move chapter by chapter through this brilliant and devastating text, building the Acorn community with Lauren, Bankole, Zahra, Harry and other characters we met in Sower, learning together what we need to attend to and practice as we build our own intentional communities, what can and can’t be protected in periods of great change, and how we unhook ourselves from the white supremacist, capitalist induced crises of the American experiment.
We are so grateful to Jess Pinkham for transcribing the Octavia’s Parables podcast for season 2. Individual episodes will be uploaded soon, and you can read the transcripts for all episodes here.
