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In July 2022, I lay in bed recovering from gender-affirming bottom surgery.1 Outside of two modest earlobe piercings, I’d never permanently changed my body before; to finally feel in control of my own body was elating and powerful. I’d started social transition by then. I hadn’t changed my name yet, but I used they/them pronouns, […]
Notes: Nearly every culture has its own take on vampire folklore, which is too broad a topic to cover here. The focus of this essay is strictly vampires in film. There are slight spoilers for Let the Right One In and Sinners. If vampires are your movie monster of choice, there’s a genre to suit […]
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Recently I’ve become obsessed with the eerie, sideways space between dreaming and waking. Those moments that make me feel less like a linearly assembled person. Probably there’s a technical term for this. Perhaps you’ve experienced it, too. Here’s an example. I had a dream that I rubbed my eye so hard, it fell out and […]
When cats fall from a great height, they twist their bodies, searching to reorient themselves, using their tails to rotate their bodies to an upright position before bracing for impact. This requires a geometrical equation cats know innately and put into practice within the span of two seconds before they land on their paws, give […]
How can you tell if a particular story idea is more suitable for a short story or a novel? People ask me this all the time, and I used to have a pretty good answer. I used to say that a short story feels like something that’s confined to a particular moment or set of […]
At the start of Isaac Asimov’s novel Foundation, the young, gifted mathematician Gaal Dornick arrives on Trantor to accept an appointment at Streeling University. The conditions of his employment contract are not disclosed to readers, but it is relatively clear that this is what would later be labelled a standard employment relationship; Dornick will not […]
Content Note: racism, sexism, transphobia, and overall bad vibes from the year 2025. The Disney Essays, Three of Three “I don’t want a Disney vacation of our history! I don’t want a whitewashed history, I don’t want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness.” – […]
Poetry is having a moment in science fiction and fantasy, and I obviously could not be happier. With the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association recognising poetry not only as an art form whose creators are worthy of membership but as one worthy of a category in the Nebula Awards, and with this year’s Worldcon […]
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