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Title: (Earth)Seeds of Liberation: Using a Parable Praxis to Dream of New Worlds with Black Girls.
Authors: Young, Alexis Morgan1 amyoung@msu.edu
Source: Taboo: The Journal of Culture & Education. Spring2026, Vol. 24 Issue 2, p227-252. 26p.
Subject Terms: *Black children, Black feminism, Praxis (Process), Fiction, Social theory
People: Butler, Octavia E., 1947-2006
Abstract: This article elucidates how Black girls theorize, resist, and remake the world through their liberatory literacies. Guided by Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower (1993) and its Earthseed philosophy, I offer Parable Praxis, a pedagogical framework grounded in Black girls’ ways of knowing that holds imagination as a method and creation as the work of liberation. Drawing from The Astronomy Club, a six-week literacy collective with six middle-school-aged Black girls, this study asks: How do Black girls, in an afterschool learning space guided by a pedagogical framework inspired by Parable of the Sower, theorize, resist, and create educations and futures beyond the reach of antiblack systems? Using Black feminist futurity as the theoretical framing, I trace how their writing, mapping, and world-building enact refusal, reclaim belonging, and imagine justice as everyday practice. Findings affirm that Black girls have long been planting Earth(seeds) of liberation and cultivating new worlds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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  Data: This article elucidates how Black girls theorize, resist, and remake the world through their liberatory literacies. Guided by Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower (1993) and its Earthseed philosophy, I offer Parable Praxis, a pedagogical framework grounded in Black girls’ ways of knowing that holds imagination as a method and creation as the work of liberation. Drawing from The Astronomy Club, a six-week literacy collective with six middle-school-aged Black girls, this study asks: How do Black girls, in an afterschool learning space guided by a pedagogical framework inspired by Parable of the Sower, theorize, resist, and create educations and futures beyond the reach of antiblack systems? Using Black feminist futurity as the theoretical framing, I trace how their writing, mapping, and world-building enact refusal, reclaim belonging, and imagine justice as everyday practice. Findings affirm that Black girls have long been planting Earth(seeds) of liberation and cultivating new worlds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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