In witnessing this wreckage here in the South, and tracing the lines from our storms to our prisons, I finally understand Octavia Butler's Parables not as prophecy, but as an autopsy. Butler's scalpel laid bare, in her time, the corpse of our present—a South where unceasing disaster is not an exception, but an expectation.
Sol Elias
Sol Elias is a Black Muslim feminist lawyer, writer and full-spectrum birth worker based in the Greater Atlanta Metro area. Sol’s legal and policy background is primarily in eliminating patriarchal violence, family policing abolition, international human rights, and bodily autonomy.
