An introduction to the Southeast Asian poetry special issue

Trans bodies are BIPOC bodies.  Trans bodies are disabled bodies.  Trans bodies are complex in so many more ways than just our genders, sexes, orientations, and pronouns. Trans minds are housed within these bodies, our bodies.  Remember that.

Strange Horizons is excited to welcome Sonia Sulaiman to our Collective, as a First Reader. In celebration of her joining us, please check out her twitter thread documenting pieces of Palestinian lore and folktales, a beautiful dedication to both language and stories. Per Sonia: "I was moved by Strange Horizons' commitment to the Palestinian people, and the magazine's leadership in this regard. I'm excited to see where my journey takes me along with SH's readers." Welcome!

It takes a village to raise a magazine.

Strange Horizons supports the Palestinian peoples' right to justice, freedom, equality, and self-determination.

I wanted this issue to be an opening invitation, an opportunity to introduce and gather people, for us to find each other and hold up mirrors. I wanted work that might surprise and delight palestinian readers first, in palestine and beyond, and trouble a flattened or limited notion of palestinian experience.

A toda la gente lectora: esperamos que disfruten mucho este especial de México de Strange Horizons. To all readers: we hope you enjoy this special issue from Mexico by Strange Horizons.

From Delhi to London, Baltimore to Singapore, we’ll probably never all sit down in the same room, but we’re united by a broad and consistently interrogated vision of SF.

Our editors have seen a massive increase in submissions from writers since the Covid-19 crisis, and we want to be able to read and publish that work.

Strange Horizons is expanding!