Posts Tagged ‘queer’
Dark & Cold Water Worlds – The Deep & Blackfish City
I’m still softened by just having finished “The Deep” by Rivers Solomon, listening to Drexciya and trying to gather my thoughts, waving like seagrass. Just a few days ago I also finished “Blackfish City” by Sam J. Miller, which is why I’m writing about both of them now, still fresh in my mind. They both embody worlds of water, one colder than the other.
Read MoreDear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow or Dear Poetry, How Are You So Powerful
I read “Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.” by Noor Hindi like one passes through a storm, intensely and hurried, and then I read it again with a close friend, N., slower, letting it simmer through us.
It is powerful, superbly formed, disruptive of anti-arab narratives,
Read More10 speculative fictions I read and loved in 2023
Because I love lists & speculative fiction & remembering what I thought about what I read, I’m making this one – it has no order except kind-of-a-chronological order? And it contains a bit of cheating because the last two I finished in 2024 and
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