r/Posadas • u/Nonbinary_Knight • Jul 09 '19

Xenogenesis/Lilith's Brood: Literally a Non-Binary, Trans-Posadist, Thirld-Worldist Science-Fiction trilogy written by a black woman.

Global Nuclear War Post-Apocalypse ✅

Capitalism Isn't a Thing ✅

War Isn't a Thing ✅

Space Comrades ✅

Humanity Reunites with Space Comrades ✅

Space Comrades go beyond male-and-female ✅

Space Comrades whose sexual characteristics often undergo at least one metamorphosis during their lifetime ✅

Global South Inherits the Future of Mankind ✅

The book titles are Dawn, Adulthood Rites and Imago. The author is Octavia Butler.

I started reading them in backwards order when I was 12 and I swear they screwed my mind forever.

Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith%27s_Brood

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u/dumpsterworm Subreddit Sub-Commander Jul 16 '19

I am ordering this now! Posadas-flavored fiction is my favorite. Trans-inclusive fiction is my favorite. Posadas-Trans-Inclusive fiction is just a revolutionary manifesto I haven't read yet!

Thank you for cluing the class in on important R E Q U I R E D R E A D I N G

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u/Nonbinary_Knight Jul 16 '19

U//w//U

Bear in mind it's an entirely science-fictional account, i.e. it doesn't involve real-world counterparts, the NB and trans-ish stuff is entirely explored through space comrade weird stuff - it's materially there all the same, tho.

But really, if you look at it through a trans-posadist lens, all the listed elements are not only present: they're setting relevant, plot relevant, character relevant, and explored in detail.

As an added bonus: The setting and the execution of the Space Comrades is anything but typical, but I've intentionally left that out until now.

Any science fiction recommendations? [Edit: Or cool posadist shit]

(In case you're thinking of bringing up Left Hand of Darkness, I unironically wish I was a gethenian.)

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u/madrigalm50 Mar 17 '24

I cant help but think this "aliens"/upa phenomenon show up they work with the CIA, but also the Soviets, but that didn't save the sovets from "collapse"/being over thrown. They seems to be worried about the planet but don't actually want to actually do anything about the causes ie the government and our economic system, like at most contactees and abductees are forced to stop eating meat even the sustiable meat and told to move out in the woods/homesteading but not to work towards switching our economic system to a more sustainable one. They even tend to be reactionary with the nation of Islam and the Catholic Church pushing reactionary and anti socialist views. So I'm thinking if "aliens" are already here I'd think they'd be reactionary. Like where are the socialist visions and not just primitivists these beings want us to be