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November 9, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Issue 8 will be available to the public in late December.
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October 31, 2025 at 12:50 AM
We are entirely funded by our readers and not-for-profit. Every cent goes back into operations and, thanks to your support, we were able to raise our rates to $75 per essay at the beginning of this year. Please help us increase them again to $100!
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On some ways in which sexual power dynamics are addressed through sci-fi world-building and characterization, there's this particularly thouhtgful piece by @kmichaelwilson.bsky.social:
Sadomasochism in Space: Lost Worlds of Gender Representation in 1980s Science-fiction Romance - Typebar Magazine
The obscure 1980s novel that unlocks the key to emotionally and psychologically sophisticated science fiction.
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October 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
On some ways in which sexual power dynamics are addressed through sci-fi world-building and characterization, there's this particularly thouhtgful piece by @kmichaelwilson.bsky.social:
Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!)
Citing the fomer is "The Death of the F*ck" (ttile censored ironically, I assume) by @emilylynell.bsky.social, focusing more on the market and social forces underlying the current moment:
The Death of The F*ck: Neopuritanism and Commercial Fiction - Typebar Magazine
How readers with presumably progressive politics are increasingly aligning with the far right on the moralization of sex.
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October 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Citing the fomer is "The Death of the F*ck" (ttile censored ironically, I assume) by @emilylynell.bsky.social, focusing more on the market and social forces underlying the current moment:
Reposted by Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!)
Digging at the problem of sex and sex appeal as something sanitized for marketability, "Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny" by @rsbenedict.bsky.social should be required reading:
Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny - Blood Knife
The human body has become a strange contradiction at the heart of the modern blockbuster. Sexy, yes. But sexual? No.
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October 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Digging at the problem of sex and sex appeal as something sanitized for marketability, "Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny" by @rsbenedict.bsky.social should be required reading: