{"655804":{"#nid":"655804","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Black History Month: How Octavia Butler\u0027s Legacy Was Born out of a Bad Science-Fiction Movie","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELisa Yaszek, a regents professor\u0026nbsp;in the\u0026nbsp;School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was quoted in the article, \u0026#39;Black History Month: How Octavia Butler\u0026#39;s Legacy Was Born out of a Bad Science-Fiction Movie\u0026#39;, published on February 23, 2022 in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EUSA Today.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAn excerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;She was literally one of the first, if not the first, Black woman to publish in modern science fiction magazines under own name,\u0026quot; Lisa Yaszek, regents\u0026nbsp;professor of science fiction studies in the School of Literature, Media and Communication at Georgia Tech told USA TODAY last year.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"35926","created_gmt":"2022-02-28 14:59:45","changed_gmt":"2022-02-28 14:59:45","author":"schurchman3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/books\/2022\/02\/23\/octavia-butler-why-her-science-fiction-stories-remain-relevant-today\/6652253001\/","dateline":{"date":"2022-02-23T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2022-02-23T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"654500":{"id":"654500","type":"image","title":"Lisa Yaszek ","body":null,"created":"1642525280","gmt_created":"2022-01-18 17:01:20","changed":"1642525280","gmt_changed":"2022-01-18 17:01:20","alt":"","file":{"fid":"248214","name":"Lisa Headshot 2021_Lisa Yaszek.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Lisa%20Headshot%202021_Lisa%20Yaszek.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Lisa%20Headshot%202021_Lisa%20Yaszek.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1426227,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Lisa%20Headshot%202021_Lisa%20Yaszek.jpeg?itok=l_BODQIF"}}},"media_ids":["654500"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}