The Metaphor of Butterflies and Caterpillars

Welcome to the end of Flash Forward. This is the very last episode of the show ever. And on it we tackle the big, BIG question: how do you change the world? How do you change yourself? How do you change tomorrow?

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Guests:

• Dr. Jessica Ware -- associate curator of invertebrates at the American Museum of Natural History
• Sabrina Imbler -- journalist and author of How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures.
• Dean Spade -- law professor at Seattle University School of Law and author of Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis (and the Next)
• Dr. Ruha Benjamin — professor of African American studies at Princeton University and author of Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want
• Liz Neeley — science communicator and founder of Liminal  

→ → →  Further reading & resources here! ← ← ← 

This episode of Flash Forward was written by me, Rose Eveleth, edited by Avery Trufelman, produced by Ozzy Llinas Goodman and sound designed by Ariana Martinez. Much of the music in this episode is by Ilan Blanck. The outro music is by Hussalonia. The episode art is by Mattie Lubchansky. 

Special thanks to Kendra Snyder at the Museum of Natural History; Cass Adair, who read Sonnet Against Entropy by John M. Ford; Elena Rivera, who read The Hermit Crab by Mary Oliver; and to Siona Petrous, who read our Octavia Butler quote.

That’s all for Flash Forward, go forth and make better futures, okay? 

Poem Credits

Sonnet Against Entropy, by John M. Ford, published by Tor in 2011

“The Hermit Crab” by Mary Oliver. Read by the permission of The Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency as agent for the author. Copyright © 1990, 2006, 2008, 2017 by Mary Oliver with permission of Bill Reichblum

That is solemn we have ended,— (87), by Emily Dickinson (public domain)