The tension of Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis series revolves around the necessity for pregnancy after the Earth is destroyed by nuclear war. I argue that Butler uses this tension to challenge perceptions of what is human and to reveal the need for intimacy and interdependence in order for our species to be resilient. Using sci-fi in order to represent non-normative bodies and bodily differences within the realm of reproduction, Butler challenges conventional ideas of pregnancy and sex as well as the possibilities of consent in times of crisis. Within the contexts of biotechnology, climate collapse, and increasing militarism, Butler imagines new intimacies (and the problems that might arise from them) that might be possible after catastrophe. She also creates a world in which people capable of pregnancy are able to exceed the role of natural resources within even the direst circumstances for the future of the species.