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In the Ancient Greek “to know thyself is the beginning of wisdom” said Socrates forever, and they made him drink poison because maybe biblical (even without a bible) I mean sexual I mean onanism I mean telling the world to masturbate I mean corrupting youth, a child trafficker, a man put to death (by drinking hemlock, smells like mouse urine) in spite of being a great thinker providing us with philosophy, a kind of Woody Allen/Harvey Weinstein/Jeffrey Dahmer/Bezos I mean Epstein of his time. I have a tshirt from my best aunt with an owl on it and the Greek phrase copied from the oracle at Delphi, the temple of Apollo, the idea of being blinded by the sun, the idea of being yourself can't happen unless you know who that is, so. The Perfume Society knows a drop of hemlock adds intrigue and depth in the smallest doses.



Emma Goldman-Sherman's plays include Abraham’s Daughters, available as a podcast at TheParsnipShip.com. Their poetry is published by Anti-Heroin Chic, Writers Resist, Queerlings, and others. Emma teaches for the Dramatists Guild Institute, offers support at https://www.bravespace.online/, and writes about wholeness and creativity at https://goldmansherman.substack.com.
Current Issue
31 Mar 2025

We are delighted to present to you our second special issue of the year. This one is devoted to ageing and SFF, a theme that is ever-present (including in its absence) in the genre.
Gladys was approaching her first heat when she shed her fur and lost her tail. The transformation was unintentional, and unwanted. When she awoke in her new form, smelling of skin and sweat, she wailed for her pack in a voice that scraped her throat raw.
does the comb understand the vocabulary of hair. Or the not-so-close-pixels of desires even unjoined shape up to become a boat
The birds have flown long ago. But the body, the body is like this: it has swallowed the smaller moon and now it wants to keep it.
now, be-barked / I am finally enough
how you gazed on our red land beside me / then how you traveled it, your eyes gone silver
Here, I examine the roles of the crones of the Expanse space in Persepolis Rising, Tiamat’s Wrath, and Leviathan Falls as leaders and combatants in a fight for freedom that is always to some extent mediated by their reduced physical and mental capacity as older people. I consider how the Expanse foregrounds the value of their long lives and experience as they configure the resistance for their own and future generations’ freedom, as well as their mentorship of younger generations whose inexperience often puts the whole mission in danger.
In the second audio episode of Writing While Disabled, hosts Kristy Anne Cox and Kate Johnston welcome Farah Mendlesohn, acclaimed SFF scholar and conrunner, to talk all things hearing, dyslexia, and more ADHD adjustments, as well as what fandom could and should be doing better for accessibility at conventions, for both volunteers and attendees.
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