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

Shapeshifting and the Locus of Self

November 27, 2010 • Books, Close Reading, Media Analysis

The concept of self as a collection of interchangeable parts is consistent with our existential freedom to “reinvent” ourselves, once we recognize that we have the ability to do so. We can change how we interface with others, our outward appearance, our language, our gender, even to a point our “race” – at least with respect to our own internal concept of self, apart, if not completely removed from the perceptions of others…

Octavia E. Butler, SFF, Wild Seed

A dream world shaped by children's desires.
A sanctuary…


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