Science Fiction from a Diverse Position

I read the short story,
I Live With You - by: Carol Emshwiller

"I Live With You," was pretty terrifying. One of the creepiest things I've read in a while. For me, the lack of resolution aided in this. It's simply and aptly tells how this female like being lives with a human, trying to improve the human's life... Pretty basic. It starts to complicate when this female- ish narrator started to basically stalk, watch and live within the life of the girl. This is super creepy because this lady/girl being stalked by the narrator is completely unaware that this narrator being is for certain living with her. While reading, the narrator ind of sounded ghost like, and that thought pretty much made sense. No one ever noticed her in any of her pervious dwellings either. As the story progressed, that couldn't make sense because the being ate, drank, interacted with come people.... but really, I was satisfied with thinking she was a ghost, and it bothered me more knowing that she probably wasn't. Ehhhh, the narrator using the lady's clothes, playing with her cat and eating her food all unnoticed? what? Stalk-y being would even take food off the lady's plate while she was eating. The lady kind of had had a'n idea she wasn't alone. This sounds like a nightmare haha... not to mention confusing and annoying (aside from terrifying.)  So, it was pretty dissatisfying to me that this situation was never resolved and the narrator wasn't identified.  The lady being stalked and followed sets traps and stuff, trying to get to a conclusion, but in the end, there really isn't any. So yes, pretty spooky resolution that made me look behind me while I was writing this. Although, dissatisfying, I think it's well written and darkly creative. It plays of of common fears and insecurities from multiple angles. It was an entertaining short story to read is the topic of Science Fiction from a Diverse Perspective. I imagine this could be thought of as sci fi, because the bing really could be anything... alien? But it overall doesn't seem like a typical sci fi piece... which is not bad. I give a thumbs up for creepy.


In class, we watched the movie:
Attack the Block (2012) - Joe Cornish
This movie is from the perspective of a group of inner city kids in an alien invasion.

In class, we read:
Bloodchild- Octavia E. Butler

Notes:

-Humans are invasive species on a planet and are made to be hosts for the native creature species.
-Literary pivot point- role reversal (male/female)
-A matriarchy is established
-Octavia's voice as a black, female, sci-fi author is identified
-Slavery, symbiotic relationships, parasitic relationship can be identified and disputed as themes and categories of relationships in this
-Thinking about relationship with oppressors, power relationships. Can love exist where there is no equality?