You may recall a show called Samurai Jack, from a wildly creative guy named Genndy Tartakovsky. Imagine Samurai Jack, but with less dialog.
Read MoreOutside of Language: Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal
So, you might ask, what does the collective dismay over change have to do with horror and the women who write it?
Everything.
Read MoreWords Wielded by Women
Pacific literature is often labeled “new” or “emerging,” but these terms—as well as the idea that SFF is contemporary to the region—couldn’t be more wrong. Literature has existed in various shapes in our islands long before colonization, from oral storytelling to tattooing, with folklore and legends coloring it.
Read MoreHow We “Island” Our Writing: A Deep Dive Into Pacific Islander SFF
It was in portal fantasy that I found a sub-genre that put into words some of my complex feelings of being an immigrant. Much like the Pevensies, I found myself struggling with an alien language, an alien culture, and even alien weathers.
Read MoreThe Two World Problem
I spent a long time living with a self-imposed fallacy that I had to somehow pick one creative pursuit and that was the Only Thing. And beyond that, I had to pick one genre, one thing that people could recognize as My Wheelhouse, and that would be the Thing.
Read MoreWrite Me a Story Without Words
It is a journey to realms, places, and cultures I could barely imagine nearly a decade ago, one where I’ve met memorable characters and immersed myself in delightful, enthralling stories from writers and cultures around the world.
Read MoreTraveling Beyond Europe’s Walls
First, he’d blithely explain how my great-grandfather saved the family’s cows from that blasphemous witch by lifting her up against the wall and choking her until she relented.
Read MoreWhat Underlies Our Conversations About Witches
It’s fantastical, illogical, ambitious, somewhat irreal, even unsettling—you may have read the literary strange in all its jarring, but just didn’t know it by name as ‘slipstream’.
Read MoreThe Radical Nature of Slipstream Fiction
Many non-Eurocentric cultures teach a way of knowing the world that accounts for the unknown and fantastic, and many ways of knowing the world like Santeria or Vodun are labeled as “black magic” because they are not understood by European colonizers and their descendants.
Read MoreThe Line Between Science Fiction and Fantasy is Blurring, and I’m Into It