Questions:
1. Describe the ways Critical Race Theory and Intersectional theory manifest in this novel, using at least one concrete example of each, focused on Alice and Kevin.
2. How does Dana and Kevin's relationship change when they're in the past, compared to the present? Why? How does Dana's relationship to Kevin compare to her relationship with Rufus?
3. Dana remarks that it's easy to get people to accept slavery. What prompts her to say that? What do we accept today that the future may judge negatively?
4. At the end of the novel, Dana has lost something and Kevin has gained something from their time in the past. What are those things? Why did Butler (the author) make those choices? What do they signify or symbolize?