Welcome
Welcome to the SSW Book Club!
This book club is for people at the U-M School of Social Work to connect over brown bag lunches to discuss good books.
Currently the club is organized by Marisa Tucker and Betsy Williams, with thanks to Callie Torkelson for co-organizing our restart. We welcome your involvement at all levels. To join you can email Marisa or Betsy, or simply add yourself to our listserv (U-M login required).
Vote now to help choose our next book, for early May.
Tuesday March 4, 2025, noon -1, in person in SSWB 4684 with a zoom option.
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Tuesday January 14, 2025, noon-1 pm - in person with a zoom option
Video of interviews with Octavia Butler: (none mention Kindred)
interview recorded at Balticon 34 in April 2000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG68v0RGHsY
interview - 19 min - first half focuses on science fiction & marketing, nothing about Kindred - starting at minute 11 she discusses how she started writing & her career
1995 interview w Julie Dash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4DHYK2y3zM
- 30 min, interviewed for 1995 conference - 40 acres and a microchip - first Black cyberspace conference in the UK.
short video clip from 2005 in which Octavia Butler speaks about climate change and Parable of the Sower