Unpayable DebtUnpayable Debt offers a black feminist reading of the political architecture of the global present. Inspired by Octavia E. Butlers novel Kindred, in which an African American writer is transported from 1970s Los Angeles to the antebellum South to save the life of the child of a slave owner who is also her ancestor, the concept of the unpayable debta debt someone owes but that is not hers to payrelates post Enlightenment versions of ethical and