Alexander Stoffel’s Eros and Empire offers a historical-materialist account of why movements for sexual freedom in the United States emerged when they did, how they understood their place in the inter...

Melody Dreamer in metaverses. Dreamn - virtual content brand focusing on unique original non-gen ai content creation for queer, trans, neurodivergent, oddity, furry and other marginalized communities....

Last summer I had the surreal privilege of being invited by my building’s management company to move to a bigger apartment for the same rent. It was a small move, from the first to the second floor. Y...

Post-nuclear worldmaking and counter-hegemony: Against catastrophic failures of imagination - Volume 9 Issue 3

On enjoying the umwelt of a long weekend in Berlin

Cymene offers an epic #CymRant against AI-gone-wild on this week’s podcast. Then (17:07) we welcome Ting Hui Lau to the podcast to talk about her fascinating and moving new book, , which focuses on how Lisu communities straddling Southwestern China and Myanmar maintain their Indigenous culture and sovereignty despite the developmental and ethnocolonial schemes targeting them. We start with why Ting thinks it’s so important to put Critical Indigenous Studies and Asian Studies into deeper dialogue. What does survivance (survival + endurance) look like in authoritarian Asia as the Lisu...

The Department of Technology, Culture and Society and the  Center for Urban Science + Progress (CUSP) at NYU Tandon welcomes you to attend a research seminar…

Science Fiction Ecologies: Worldmaking with Butler, Le Guin, and Merril by Shelley Streeby. (NYU Press. August 2026). 376 Pages. Octavia E. Butler often meditated on change, brainstorming across various archival forms on its meanings and how best to adapt to it. In wire-bound notebooks she used for journaling, Butler speculated in 1981 that “[science fiction] SF readers and writers were more prepared to deal with change since in their reading and writing they practice dealing with it.” Butler believed this made science fiction “one of our more useful and undervalued tools to combat the kind of shortsightedness that makes us fear change, deny it, or become unable to cope with it.” Atop another journal page, Butler wrote “Short-sightedness—the environment,” calling science fiction a way of “Lengthening the View.” In 1991, Butler took notes on the words environment and ecology from Robert E. Ricklef’s 1973 book Ecology: The Economy of Nature, which she borrowed from the Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL). This book helped establish the field of ecology, went through many editions, and was widely used as a textbook in colleges and universities. In a blue medium-sized spiral-bound notebook Butler kept during the 1990s to jot down her responses to...

I have a lot to say about this book, and a lot to think about in terms of how I’d like to use Táíwò’s work in Indigenous Studies, and more broadly in my Indigenous Futurisms work &#8211…