Kindred Watch Party & #BlackLit Dialogue

Greetings family,

We are excited for you to join us for a screening of the new Hulu TV series adaptation of the novel Kindred by prolific and prescient Black speculative fiction writer-ancestor, Octavia Butler.

Read here to learn more about the TV series: https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/kindred

We will watch 1-2 episodes per evening as follows, depending on how much there is to unpack week to week (!) with dialogue and reflection on the TV adaptation and all of the layered topics and themes that are centered throughout the novel and in the show-- Afro-Futurism, time-traveling, Black American history, genealogy / ancestry, all things Octavia Butler (!), and beyond.

Week I : Tu 12/13 - Episodes 1 (& 2)

Week II : Tu 12/20 - Episodes 3 (& 4)

Week III : Tu 12/27 - Episodes 5 (& 6)

Week IV : Tu 1/3 - Episodes 7 (& 8)

You are welcome to watch ahead as long as we agree to limit our conversation week to week-- avoid spoilers for folks who are viewing on schedule. If you want to refresh your memory on the book, you still have time to procure a copy through the LOVING ROOM store on Bookshop.org.

Light refreshments provided. Snacks, sweats, silk scarves, and slippers strongly encouraged.

Come for the whole series or for a single evening. Space is limited so please be intentional with your registration. Blessings + gratitude, see you soon!

From the series synopsis:

"Adapted from the celebrated novel Kindred, by Hugo Award-winner Octavia E. Butler, the FX series centers on “Dana James” (Mallori Johnson), a young Black woman and aspiring writer who has uprooted her life of familial obligation and relocated to Los Angeles, ready to claim a future that, for once, feels all her own. But, before she can settle into her new home, she finds herself being violently pulled back and forth in time. She emerges at a nineteenth-century plantation, a place remarkably and intimately linked with Dana and her family. An interracial romance threads through Dana’s past and present, and the clock is ticking as she struggles to confront secrets she never knew ran through her blood, in this genre-breaking exploration of the ties that bind." - https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/kindred

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