Does the dog die?
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Conversations With Octavia Butler
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Mention of a fictional character dying of suicide in a book
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Does a kid die?
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Passing mention of a plot point in a book involving a child drowning. Another passing mention of a gang shooting and killing a child for Halloween candy
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Passing mention of it being a plot point in one of the author’s novels
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Is there sexual content?
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Discussions of sex as a theme in some of the author’s novels. Nothing graphic
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Butler discusses how, because of her height, short hair, and deep voice, she was often mistaken for a man, to the point of being harassed in women’s restrooms
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Does someone drown?
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Passing mention of a plot point in a book involving a child drowning
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Does someone miscarry?
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Butler mentions in the interview with Charles Rowell that she had four older brothers who were miscarried or died shortly after being born
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Is the r-slur used?
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Butler refers to herself as a “social r-word” in one of the interviews
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Is there gun violence?
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passing mention of a gang shooting and killing a child for Halloween candy
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Does a parent die?
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Butler’s dad died shortly after she was born. Mention of a fictional father character dying of suicide in a book
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Passing mention in the interview with Charles Rowell. Octavia mentioned that her great grandmother died giving birth to her grandmother
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Passing mention of a pastor’s antisemitism at the end of the first interview
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Is there addiction?
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Passing mention of a plot point in a book involving drug abuse and addiction
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Does someone have cancer?
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Cancer is discussed
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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The author’s fear of nuclear war is discussed, and it is brought up as a plot point of her Xenogenisis series
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Are there 9/11 depictions?
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Mostly mentioned in the one interview from 2001. No descriptions of the event
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Is there childbirth?
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Is there hate speech?
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Discussed, but not spelled out
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