Accepting the Alien

This week, we read four of Vandana Singh's short stories: "The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet," "Conservation Laws," and "The Tetrahedron" from The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet and Other Stories (2014) and "Lifepod" from Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories (2018). In "The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet" and "The Tetrahedron" in… Continue reading Accepting the Alien

No Woman Born & Bridesicle

This week myself and two partners co-taught a lecture on "No Woman Born" by C.L. Moore (1944) and "Bridesicle" by Will McIntosh (2009). Though these two short stories were written over sixty years apart, they share many of the same themes. While we were designing our co-teaching curriculum, I was particularly interested in discussing how… Continue reading No Woman Born & Bridesicle