She Threds

Well, here we go! The start of Women's History Month. I'm going to begin this year with an author I knew nothing about until stumbling into an airport art museum at SFO this past week. I love discovering arts and artists while roaming airports, and want to encourage you to do the same. Gloriously, it is almost always there but in our rush and preoccupation we often miss it.

Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006) - First African American woman science fiction writer to gain national recognition.

This quote beneath her portrait grabbed my eye and drew me in:
"You got to make your own worlds. You got to write yourself in. Whether you were a part of the greater society or not, you got to write yourself in."