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The Shaping Her Earth Book Club highlights BIPOC women. This fall we’re exploring the provocative and prophetic legacy of science fiction author Octavia E. Butler. Join the Shaping Her Earth Book Club for a discussion of Kindred by Octavia Butler. This is a classic American novel, by a woman ahead of her time. We embark on an engaging time-slip story, centered around a Black woman living in Los Angeles in 1976, who becomes an accidental traveler through time. Jockeyed back and forth between present and past by an unknown cosmic force, the female protagonist Dana Franklin confronts a community of slaves and their masters at a plantation in 19th-century Maryland, which forms a strange mirror on the present day. This reading group will ask pivotal questions of this Octavia E. Butler work through a virtual discussion facilitated by Ayana Jamieson, founder of the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network. The OEB Legacy Network is a global community founded in 2011, committed to highlighting Octavia Butler’s life and work while creating new works inspired by Butler’s legacy. Ayana Jamieson, PhD is an assistant professor of Ethnic Studies at Cal Poly Pomona, a mythologist, and depth psychologist. She is the founder of the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network, a global community founded in 2011, committed to highlighting Octavia Butler’s life and work while creating new works inspired by Butler’s legacy. Ayana’s essay, “Far Beyond the Stars” appears in the Black Futures anthology. She has also published at The Feminist Wire, 51 Feminist Thinkers, Uneven Futures: Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction, Public Books and elsewhere. She is also a contributor to Salome Institute for Jungian Studies, and a featured speaker at the New York Times “A New Climate” on climate change.