Papers Session: Disability Perspectives for Alternative Futures
Abstract for Online Program Book (maximum 150 words)
I argue in this paper Piepzna-Samarasinha’s reading of the character Laura Olamina, in Octavia Butler’s novel The Parable of the Sower, as a Black, genderqueer, disabled person who leads her community with the help of her disablity to a restored community is emblemic of Jesus Christ, when seen through the lens of Black and Disability theologies, as a Black, disabled risen Lord, promises an end to this world and birth of a new creation or a New Heaven and a new Earth.
