Celeste Noelani has spent the last twenty years figuring out how to be a Native Hawaiian in Seattle. You can read more of her writing on her blog or on Twitter, where she mostly retweets people who are smarter and funner than she is.
We can see conservative values, fears, and hopes playing out in many Western science fiction works—and patriarchal ideals around motherhood, reproduction, and family are everywhere.
What would it look like for dominant-language fantasy to engage with the living cultures, contemporary politics, and modern histories of Celtic-language communities?
In this episode of Strange Horizons @ 25, Kat Kourbeti sits down with SFF critic and writer Bogi Takács for an in-depth conversation about the role of criticism in the SFF space, plus an overall look at their varied career.