This piece is a part of our series Earthseed, which explores Parable of the Sower’s legacy in shaping our current attitudes toward food futures.
For the third installment of MOLD Magazine’s Earthseed Bookclub, we discuss chapters 14-20 of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower with shakara tyler, a returning-generation farmer, educator and organizer. In her work, shakara explores participatory and decolonial research methodologies and community-centered pedagogies in the food justice, food sovereignty and environmental justice movements, working with organizations such as the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network (DBCFSN), Detroit People’s Food Co-op (DPFC), the Detroit Black Farmer Land Fund (DBFLF) and the Black Dirt Farm Collective (BDFC). During this bookclub, shakara shares about cooperative strategies for building future worlds, which she first wrote about in her piece “(Re)Negotiating Utopias and Dystopias In Building New Worlds“. Revisit the conversation and follow along with our bookclub in the video below:
