Octavia Butler interview - transcending barriers

In memory of Octavia Butler, we are posting this interview with her, recorded at Balticon 34, in April of 2000.
In this interview, Ms. Butler discusses issues of race, class and sex in the science fiction genre as well as society at large. She also talks about her evolution as a writer and her experience with the Clarion Writers Workshop.
We apologize for the quality of the video - this is taken from an extremely compressed version of the interview.