March 8 is International Women’s Day, and just because it’s an Earth holiday, that doesn’t meant we can’t celebrate it with tales set on other planets or in other, more fantastical realities. Here are 10 recommended reads to celebrate the day, and recognize fabulous stories, books, and essays by and about women in the speculative […]
The #ownvoices hashtag has been percolating on social media for some time now. It’s generally used to signify a work of fiction by a minority writer, writing a story from within their own community and/or describing their own lived experience. Some will bristle at the implications, decrying that we are all human, and can therefore […]
Today is the 27th anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. I don’t remember a life without the ADA. I don’t remember school without the ADA. And I don’t remember being a writer without the ADA. The Act means I can go to school, have a job, access buildings. It means that […]