OctaviaButler.net A fan blog for Octavia E. Butler, writer.

Octavia E. Butler writes: "I am a 53-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer. I'm also comfortably asocial — a hermit in the middle of Seattle — a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

"It's not that we haven't always been here, since there was a here. It is that the letters of our names have been scrambled when they were not totally erased, and our fingerprints upon the handles of history have been called the random brushings of birds."
--Audre Lorde, "Wild Women in the Whirlwind"

KINDRED

Written by Tony Daniel
Adapted from the novel by Octavia E. Butler
Directed by Brian Smith and Jackie Cuscuna

Starring:

Alfre Woodard as "Dana Franklin"
Lynn Whitfield as "Sarah"
with Ruby Dee performing Slave Narratives

Featuring (alphabetically):

Cast & Crew Bios

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