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On the significance of the young Black woman protagonist of Parable of the Sower: Lauren Olamina was born in 2009. What are the kids born in 2009 like? Ways of knowing, thinking, she pulls together radically shift our epistemology - focusing on what we can use

Butler struggled to write a charismatic leader as a protagonist. She modeled patterns* she saw & aimed to see how people's needs could be met, and brought that to characterizing Olamina *see what we did there?

Was OEB a Patternmaster? or, what drove her to study and be creative with the patterns in nature, emerging technologies, biological science

Discussing Butler's interpretation of science and how she draws in the cosmologies of African peoples, nonhuman biology, mythologies. A good touchstone our panelists point to comes from Aimee Bahng's writing, here: soundcloud.com/thehuntington/…

Butler's archive is located at the Huntington Library. San Marino is a *very* wealthy community! You can't get there on the bus... a genteel location for the records of someone who lived near, but not in, that world

Keeping her records at the Huntington preserves them in a way Black people don't typically have access

One thing about the archive that Dr Jamieson and Dr Collins know: Butler's published work is the tip of the iceberg, there are extraordinary depths and forces from her life and thinking beneath!

Butler's incredibly abundant archive & lifelong collecting practice shows us how many different fragments, parts of her self articulate the big picture, that any one piece has an untold relationship to the whole

A bevy of questions from our Principal Investigators to bookend the discussion: What can we learn and infer about her family background as an influence on her worldview, especially the environment? How did she amass knowledge about the African peoples depicted in her work?

Our panel 🙌🏾 follow this account and stay posted at ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/unarchiving-bl… to keep up with availability of video

Great upcoming event for interested parties!

The Black Games Archive is a multimedia, public-facing database of games, digital resources, accessible scholarship, and designer interviews that are relevant to the intersections between Black culture, games, and play. And it's LIVE! 🖤🎮🤎 blackgamesarchive.org

Excited to learn from African & Black Diaspora Studies graduate & postdoctoral scholars in the #UnarchivingBlackness Sawyer Seminar UC Riverside during our Symposium on May 26! tinyurl.com/UBSpring23

Our Symposium on May 26 will feature a panel of early-career scholars in African & Black Diaspora Studies! RSVP tinyurl.com/UBSpring23 & learn more at ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/unarchiving-bl… UC Riverside UCR CHASS

A flower for Tina. This 1962 Ernest Withers photo of Tina Turner, currently on display at the Library's Not An Ostrich photography exhibition, is larger than life. Just like she was. May she rest in peace.

TOMORROW: we welcome the founding director of the Center for Restorative History at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History for the #UnarchivingBlackness Symposium events.ucr.edu/event/UBSpring…

Can't make it in person? RSVP online at tinyurl.com/UBSpring23 to join us on Zoom

TOMORROW: the #UnarchivingBlackness Symposium at UC Riverside gathers cutting-edge and emerging scholars + practitioners culminating a year of collaboration toward creative reconsiderations of archives in African & African Diaspora Studies events.ucr.edu/event/UBSpring…

Can't make it in person? RSVP online at tinyurl.com/UBSpring23 to join us on Zoom

Thank you! Concluding the Unarchiving Blackness Sawyer Seminar with our Symposium last Friday UC Riverside was a wonderful way to gather as scholars, artists, practitioners, and thinkers. In the future, look out for more information and video from the year's programs.