New Issue: 2012:25 (Outlaw Bodies)

"The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers."
--Adrienne Rich

Issue 2012.25

• ‘Winds: NW 20 km/hr’, Stacy Sinclair (artwork by Rachel H. White)
• ‘The Remaker’, Fabio Fernandes (artwork by Robin E. Kaplan)
• ‘Elmer Bank’, Emily Capettini (artwork by Laura-Anca Adascalitei)
• ‘Her Bones, Those of the Dead’, Tracie Welser (artwork by Miranda Jean)
• ‘Millie’, Anna Caro (artwork by Rhiannon Rasmussen-Silverstein)
• ‘Good Form’, Jo Thomas (artwork by Miguel Santos)

Outlaw Bodies is an anthology published by our parent imprint Futurefire.net Publishing and guest co-edited by Lori Selke.
Outlaw Bodies is available from the usual sellers, including:

• Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
• Wizard's Tower Books (e-book)
• Lulu.com

Review copies available on request.

Guest post: The Clothes Our Bodies Wear

by Anna Caro

In anticipation of a new job, I went on a shopping expedition the other week. The results included three pairs of black trousers, officially women’s but as unisex looking as these things get really, which I needed to have taken up, two shirts and a knitted vest (men’s) and a dress, striped at the top with a dark skirt. A successful, if expensive, haul.

It’s always been this way for me, wearing clothing commonly identified with almost the full range of the gender spectrum. As a small child I fluctuated with apparent ease between the smocked, floral dresses my grandmother made, and my favourite brown corduroy dungarees. Even as a teenager, when I wouldn’t have dared shop for men’s clothes, I still scored some items from a batch donated to my brother by a member of his archery club.

Guest Post: Bodies in Utopia, Bodies in Space

This blog deals primarily in speculations about the future of sex, gender, and society. So does the new publication by The Future Fire, the Outlaw Bodies anthology co-edited by Lori Selke.

The book focuses on characters who are yearning for something more, some way out of the binary that is gender, the divide between the flesh and the digital, the disparities and inequalities that result from those dichotomies, and dares the reader to dream of different spaces, of Other spaces.

This collection points to the body in a very specific way: to ask about its limitations and push beyond them.