For this week, we
read Bloodchild by Octavia Butler. This work challenged the majoritarian
culture by tackling gender roles.
In this short
story, the main protagonist is a male who is chosen to carry the more dominant
female’s children. He witnesses a male give birth, via a familiar approach to
C-section. The use of eggs symbolize long life, eggs are more correlated with
females because of our sexual reproduction system. Also, the human species has
become dependent on this new species that is introduced in the story, and vice
versa.
In class, we also
watched Attack on the Block, which implemented a familiar alien attack storyline
but in a new setting, that is not typical in your usual sci-fi narrative: an
urban slum. Along with featuring a more diverse cast rater than your typical
white cast.
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