Aisha

Academic (children's literature, spatiality, nationalisms, fantasy); reviews editor (@strangehorizons); other things, probably.

[Aisha @ActuallyAisha]

I have an article in this! Spatiality and protest and the future recent anglophone SF has imagined for Delhi.

[SF Beyond @SfBeyond]

The special issue is live! Read about how authors and creators from postcolonial contexts expand #scifi and use the future as a realm of creativity and critique. https://t.co/d7KDHz4xY6

[Auntie Yaga @getty_a96716]

It’s called “you read papers. Then you cite them yourself.” We do things a slow way for a reason: to ensure there is a consistent web of knowledge and to check the work of those behind you. Without that your house isn’t just built on sand, it’s MADE of sand.

[Indrapramit Das @IndrapramitDas]

Fellow Calcuttan writer/editor Archita Mittra is in urgent need of help--she lost her father recently, suffered damages to her home from the recent rains, & her mother's now in hospital. They've no insurance. She's a freelancer & really needs help. Please share & donate.

[Emma Szewczak @EmmaSzewczak]

Can't stop thinking about this perfect illustration of TERFism: it offers women nothing, no hope, no vision for a better future, and expects us to put up with this appalling reality for the simple sake of degrading others. In its feminist guise it's a doomed movement. Thankfully

[Dan Hartland @danhartland]

The issue opens with a quick introduction from me and @ActuallyAisha, in which we advocate for the special - and criticism - with our usual boldness.

"What of material effect will all this criticism have achieved? Reader, we can’t say. Maybe none.“

https://t.co/AdVrDFBqUO

[Dan Hartland @danhartland]

It's here! The @strangehorizons Criticism Special: one editorial, five critical essays, three poems, one podcast, three special reviews.

We'll be publishing 1 essay per day all week, and the reviews will appear on the usual Monday-Wednesday-Friday cycle.

https://t.co/rEDSr0PGva

[Aisha @ActuallyAisha]

@galtor @UpperEastUpside Oh no.

[Dan Hartland @danhartland]

Yesterday at @strangehorizons, @Broke_Bookworm on One Hundred Shadows from @ErewhonBooks.

It’s a piece that gets a sense of the novel by making an argument: “a fascinating exploration of how we go on when we are alienated from the labour we perform.”

https://t.co/WrAaq7IRjy

[Aisha @ActuallyAisha]

Doing this in Glasgow later this month!

[Prof Melanie Ramdarshan Bold @ILoveCopyright]

Firstly, on the 20th Nov (3-5pm) @ActuallyAisha's talk Bringing Disorder to the Metropolis: Immigrant Children in Fantastic London! You can book your free tickets here: https://t.co/ByTQ8Z2kvi

[Nilanjana Roy 📚🦊 @nilanjanaroy]

🌿🍂

"I think I am at peace now,
he said, for my dreams
move like the thinnest
veil of mist over water."

~ Keki Daruwalla, Notes from the Underground

(24 January 1937 - 27 September 2024)

Go gently, and thank you for the words, the heart, that conscience.

[Aisha @ActuallyAisha]

@danhartland @jakecasella We could just ... gesture at everything?

[Dan Hartland @danhartland]

OK, gang, heads up: the @strangehorizons Criticism Special is coming, in January of 2025. What crazy ideas have you got for us?

@ActuallyAisha and I are always particularly keen to welcome new critics to SH for these issues. We want essays, dialogues, exegeses of every kind!

[Aisha @ActuallyAisha]

@galtor To be fair, that is less a commentary on Ulysses's difficulty, and more on that one podcast.

[David Bergman @TheDavidBergman]

Bangladesh update: Just been informed by credible journalist that 57 protestors/bystanders were killed today, apparently all by law enforcement authorities - bringing total number of deaths since Monday to over 100. Figures based on police and hospital reports

[A Meal of Thorns @MealOfThorns]

Episode 1 is live!

@jakecasella & @danhartland talk about THE SCAR: bold, partially-substantiated claims about the New Weird! Deep dives into narrative & aesthetics! Unexpected comparisons!

Listen now:
https://t.co/OHvusqPqdC

[Aisha @ActuallyAisha]

@_vajra We should probably stop defaulting to you as "a good example of what we think writers SHOULD be doing - "; it's getting lazy.

[Strange Horizons @strangehorizons]

We've just hit our *penultimate* milestone of $12.5K, so here's a new episode of the Critical Friends podcast: @danhartland and @ActuallyAisha on boundaries in genre!

https://t.co/WrhHDgPB5r

We're now under $1K away from our base goal! To get us there:
https://t.co/FHKziMN625

[Dan Hartland @danhartland]

Now just a few hundred dollars from a *brand new episode* of the Critical Friends podcast.

That's right! For a few dollars more you get @ActuallyAisha and me talking about genre and boundaries. What donor can resist the temptation?*

*Other prizes are available.

[Aisha @ActuallyAisha]

@danhartland @strangehorizons (Not if they're in parentheses, surely.)