Category: news
Announcements of new releases, events, collaboration works, interviews, etc. Updates, works in progress, and other commentaries in newsletter.
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An interview with Discipline Press
Just wanted to share an interview with yours truly that came out today from Tamara Santibañez’s Discipline Press: Here’s an excerpt: Tamara: I think you often don’t realize the scope of how different something you’re doing is or how underrepresented it is until you start doing it, and have created a point of comparison or…
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Unbound Worlds roundtable
I got on a video chat last weekend with Cat Fitzpatrick, Jeanne Thorton, Trish Salah, and Ayşe Devrim for a roundtable now transcribed over at Unbound Worlds SFF magazine. The article is titled Viable Ways For Living: Trans Authors on SFF in Meanwhile, Elsewhere The roundtable is all in reference to Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction…
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Soothsaying with METROPOLARITY
Myself, Ras Cutlass, and Rasheedah Phillips of our beloved METROPOLARITY crew were invited to do a show on PhillyCAM (Community Access Media) in Philadelphia. Join Metropolarity for an intimate night of prophecying, sh*t talking, and secret spilling. Your anxieties about the future sent via email/text/social media will be answered on air in between doses of…
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DESIRE HOPE DESPAIR Speculative Storytelling Streamcast
03/2025 Update: This was an early attempt at a regular podcast thing, before I had better audio editing chops and before I had accepted that what I was doing was a “podcast.” Some of the old episodes still live on Mixcloud, which you can listen to below. Please enjoy this infrequent sci-fi/speculative storytelling & discussion…
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The Romance of the Colony
I originally wrote this narrative for Mask Magazine [defunct 2021] about the persistent imperialist romance myth of “the colony” in sci-fi. It’s a story about the dreams of The Colony’s extension into outerspace/surveillance state as seen thru lens of Hollywood blockbusters and anime. Better Living Through Chemistry It’s spring, 2011. Your friend is at the…
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Style of Attack Report
A self-published jawn by my unrelenting coven, METROPOLARITY, produced in our fourth year. METROPOLARITY is a DIY sci-fi collective based, bred, and tested in the colliding future-present of Philadelphia. This Style of Attack Report contains select work from Metropolarity’s four founding members, who contribute theory, practice, and experience of home grown speculative visioning for both…
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SHEDDING zine
“WE CRAFTED MEANING OUT OF THINGS WHICH DO NOT REPRESENT US” “MIXED BLOODS Y HALF BREEDS” “TO SAY YOU ARE WHITE IS TO SAY YOU ARE ABSENT OF ANYTHING & ENTITLED BY HISTORY BUT WHAT DO YOU CONTAIN? WHOSE LEGACIES WERE YOU BORN FROM?” I think I made about 50 of these in total. A…
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Ghost in the Shell and Body Crisis
My 2015 visit on episode 04 of illustrator/essayist/critic/badass Annie Mok‘s Lights Go Down movie discussion podcast. Sci-fi writer M Téllez of Metropolarity Collective (who is also my housemate) joins me to talk about a movie they’re an expert in, the 1995 Mamoru Oshii anime of Masamune Shiro’s manga, Ghost in the Shell. Music is from…