The Fantasy Issue
In It Not to Win It: Indie Game Designers Queer Time, Space, and Play
Queering virtual worlds goes beyond including LGBTQ characters or storylines.
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Open Arms: The Fantastical Pull of Tentacle Porn
The experiences of those who embrace tentacle porn offer a larger lesson about how we come to understand our own sexual nuances.
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Yola Is the Unconventional Queen of Country Soul
Black artists from all around the world are continuing the tradition of upending the expectation that country music is a genre reserved for white artists.
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On the Mend: The Future of Fashion Is Sustainable
While “sustainability” might sound like a trendy buzzword, it is actually a movement that brings together people committed to honoring what we love about clothes.
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Begone with the Wind: How Hollywood Rewrites Slavery
If these cinematic perceptions of slavery are committed to memory, then we might accept the plantation as a mere backdrop to terror rather than the very site of it.
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Smoke Signal: Building the Past, the Present, and the Afrofuture
Today’s Afrofuturist art blurs the lines between present and future, fact and fiction, and fantasy and reality.
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Sound Out: Coming Home to Lavender Country
Queer country artists have been making their voices known for decades.
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Gilead Is Now: For Feminist Authors, Dystopia Is Already Here
In modern times, dystopian fiction is an outlet for authors to imagine the world as it already is.
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Beyond Bars: Prison Abolition Should Be the American Dream
The possibilities are endless, if we allow ourselves to dream bigger than criminalization and bondage.
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Bethany C. Morrow Rewrites the Siren Song
There’s no way to opt out of oppression and dehumanization, and no way to opt in to the power majority.
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