What Underlies Our Conversations About Witches
My Italian papa was from the Old Country, a godly place where “men were men” and “women knew how to behave”. In his mind, the purpose for my feminine existence was simple: I was to uphold the Roman...
View ArticleTraveling Beyond Europe’s Walls
Once upon a time, in the ancient age of 2014, I wrote a piece at SF Signal entitled “Silk Road Fantasy and Breaking the Great Wall of Europe”. In that piece, I clamored for more fantasy that drew on...
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Write Me a Story Without Words
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...
View ArticleThe Two World Problem
My first introduction to western speculative fiction was in 1995, when I arrived on a little island called Australia. It was, to put it mildly, an overwhelming period, and speculative fiction offered...
View ArticleHow We “Island” Our Writing: A Deep Dive Into Pacific Islander SFF
I’m a Pacific Islander of Indigenous Polynesian and Asian origins (Mā‘ohi, Pa‘umotu, Hakka) whose vision has been shaped by growing up in the diaspora, and I wish to honor the Indigenous Māori owners...
View ArticleWords Wielded by Women
As the last of the twentieth century wound down, the world prepared itself for the inevitable mass hysteria known colloquially as Y2K1. It was feared to be the end of times (technologically speaking),...
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