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Utopian Possibilities: Disability, Norms, and Eugenics in Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis

Octavia Butler’s trilogy Xenogenesis is a useful text for opening a conversation between scholars of utopia and scholars of disability. By reading Xenogenesis as a critical utopia, the article argues that the trilogy is ambiguous about the idea of better bodies while also articulating the foundation for fruitful community. The argument is that the Oankali are neither saviors nor demons, and the humans in the narrative are neither victims nor heroes. Instead, the main characters in each of the three novels—Lilith in the first, Akin in the second, and Jodahs in the third—think through the ways in which their identities intersect with their bodies, their abilities, their families, and their desires.