Kermit O
WRITER • EDUCATOR • DREAMER — Light brown. Unapologetically Black. Punches up. Writing a dreampunk novel about kids, trauma, and parallel worlds.

Flexuality: The Elasticity of Sexual Norms in the Works of Octavia E. Butler

December 1, 2013 • Books, Gender and Sexuality, Media Analysis, Race and Ethnicity, Society and Culture


An examination of how Butler challenges sexual norms, from the incest taboo in the Patternist series, to interspecies sex in the Lilith’s Brood trilogy, to pedophilia and rape in Fledgling, and arguably all three of these in her short story Bloodchild. These stories show us how norms, particularly sexual ones, are flexible between worlds, cultures, and especially individuals.

Octavia E. Butler, sexual norms, SFF

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