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SCIENCE FICTION

Editorial

By Amelia Walker In Science Fiction

Editorial: Queers! Destroy! Science Fiction!

Nike Sulway introduces the strange machinery of (queer) science fiction

Articles

March 7, 2019 in Science Fiction

Queer, Difference, Heresy

Daniel Hourigan looks closely at some of the fantasy coordinates of NA Sulway's Rupetta

March 6, 2019 in Science Fiction

The Queer Body as Time Machine

Tara East focuses on how time travel narratives challenge gender norms through experimental representations of bodies and sexuality

March 5, 2019 in Science Fiction

A Constellation of Intimacies

Ed Chamberlain examines the representation of human desire, feeling and migration in Michael Cunningham's Specimen Days

March 4, 2019 in Science Fiction

‘His Unspoken Natural Center’

Nike Sulway examines the ways James Tiptree, Jr's identity disrupts the gender-normalising structure of authorial constructions and expectations

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Call for submissions

Writing from Below is now accepting papers for an open-themed issue, volume three, number two. We welcome papers and creative works that engage with Gender, Sexuality and Diversity Studies from across all disciplines, and from academics at all stages of their careers.

The deadline for submissions is now closed. Issue 6.1 (2020) will have a call for submissions announced soon.

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