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Podcast: Stuff Mom Never Told You
Episode: Fictional Women Around the World: Lauren Olamina
Description: Octavia Butler's The Parable of the Sower featured still relevant conversations around race, climate change, gender, and religion. It also featured a young Black protagonist with hyper-empathy named Lauren Olamina, who created her own religion when she saw a change that needed to happen.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.