Even in science fiction and fantasy, we're used to hearing the stories of the rich and the white. This represents an enormous failure of imagination.
Speculative fiction is just as rooted in white supremacy as any other genre. When a transformative vision of racial justice shows itself, it's rooted in communities of color.
As a reader and a writer, I'm over the idea of the 'one true heir'. Fantasy does not concern itself with utopia, it's about fairness.
I’d love to live in a world where the thug, the drag queen, the single mum, the octogenarian churchwarden and the black girl geek could overthrow the tech corporations.
More and more women have been nominated for Hugo Awards in recent years—until this year. Here’s what’s at stake.
We make fiction that disrupts the status quo, examines change as a collective bottom up process, centers marginalized communities - and is neither utopian nor dystopian.
Science fiction readers know in their bones that there's a big universe out there, and that science increasingly changes everyday life.
The science fiction that is most important is that which situates itself at a point of struggle.