Bloodchild cover art by Wayne D. Barlowe

Reproductive Rights and Alien Love in Octavia Butler's "Bloodchild"

Or how science fiction has plenty of philosophy and politics to discuss and speculate

Lidia Zuin
9 min readNov 17, 2023

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Warning: This article contains spoilers.

It's been 17 years since the science fiction writer Octavia Butler left us with a legacy of stories addressing gender, race, and love. One of…

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Lidia Zuin

Brazilian journalist, MA in Semiotics and PhD in Visual Arts. Researcher and essayist. Technical and science fiction writer.