What a lovely project:
Octavia’s Parables is a podcast where hosts Toshi Reagon and adrienne maree brown read the works of Octavia Butler one chapter at a time, bringing a modern analysis and scholarship to the work, and offering listeners guiding questions for applying the lessons in their own lives and community work.
But most especially because it’s about close reading - about using the internet to lean into a specific work / author / niche / community. Is there a word for this kind of close attention, because sometimes the internet is amazing at this (and other times, not so much)…..