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    Yo, Lionsgate: Maybe Turn These YA Books Into Movies Instead of Making More Hunger Games or Twilight

    By Aug 11th
     
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    Ava DuVernay to Bring Octavia Butler’s Dawn to Television, and It’s About Time

    By Aug 9th
     
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    Re-Read: Octavia Butler’s Parable Series

    By Feb 21st
     
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    By May 9th
     
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    10 Sci-Fi Stories Created by Women of Color

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    Male Sci-Fi Authors Talk Feminism, the Bechdel Test and Genre Writing in New HeForShe Video

    By Mar 12th
     
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    By Feb 6th
     
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    Happy 25th Anniversary, Octavia Butler!

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