The exercise for this week will focus on dialogue. It's best with a partner (sorry) but for those intrepid writers flying solo, you can always make up the two "voices" in your head--or aloud. (Wait, you have full blown conversations with yourself too, right? Oh good.) Enjoy!
Queering a Path Through the Universe: Sex & Love in Sci-Fi
There are other stories, however, where the mantel of homophobia, while not erased or denied, is thrown off, is overcome, or, perhaps a better word—is circumvented. In speculative narratives, we begin to see the story possibilities expanded; the tropes subverted; homophobia and transphobia, transcended.
On Magical Realism and Speculative Fiction
Why Audrie & Daisy is Required Watching in a Culture of Slut Shaming and "Locker Room Talk"
The truth is, there is only so much legislation can do, especially when confronting rape culture and institutionalized sexism and cissexism in trying to protect the victims of sexual assault. Legislation is not enough, when prevailing cultural attitudes and media representations send the message that women are commodities and that rape culture is normal and okay. Which brings us, of course, to Trump.