Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers

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There’s very little explaining, in other words, which leaves more room for the alien spore that’s just landed, and the hologram café. A few I really enjoyed included the intriguing possibilities and cruel legal tangles of Calvin Gimpelevich’s body-swapping Rent, Don’t Sell; the brutal compassion and street justice of Paige Bryony’s voyeuristic Control Shift Down; and the quiet lonely worry of space travel that Sadie Avery painted in Using a Treadmill You Can Run Until Exhaustion Without Moving. To take “Delicate Bodies” as an example; in that story, the protagonist is a racialized trans woman who becomes a zombie and sexually assaults and murders people. Matchmaker by Dane Figueroa Edidi - In terms of sheer story, this is far-and-away my favorite in the collection.

Nerve Endings edited by Tobi Hill-Meyer and Take Me There edited by Tristan Taormino come to mind, both of whom share some authors with us actually! When it comes to using the words elsewhere and meanwhile, people often make the mistake of using them interchangeably. For this you might use a ‘Meanwhile, elsewhere…’ worksheet and expand students’ horizons beyond the taught curriculum. While the rules for using “elsewhere” and “meanwhile” are generally straightforward, there are some exceptions to be aware of. We know building your perfect life from scratch is never that easy, and that your life falling apart utterly is never that final.Delicate Bodies by Bridget Liang - When being transgender is so often treated by like a disease, and when so much of society treats you as a monstrous freak, maybe becoming a sentient flesh-eating zombie isn't such a bad thing. Meanwhile can also be used as a transitional phrase to move the conversation from one topic to another. When used with “than” or “but”: In some cases, “elsewhere” can be used with “than” or “but” to indicate a preference for something other than the current situation. While the rules for using “elsewhere” and “meanwhile” are generally straightforward, there are exceptions to be aware of.

It’s Me, Laura by Aisling Fae: This one is by far my favorite story in the collection; it is a sheer delight. Much like my poetry projects come partly out of being, like, where is our Adrienne Rich or Audre Lorde? The choice between the two words can change the meaning of a sentence, so it’s important to understand the nuances of each word and the context in which they are appropriate to use. I also liked that most of the stories also have political consciousness, not only of trans issues but of basic inequality and the wrongness and corruption of our culture. Okay, how about fantastic, original, engaging, wondrous, amusing, exciting, arousing, and intellectually stimulating.Were many of the contributors to Meanwhile, Elsewhere new to writing science fiction and/or fantasy? With Meanwhile, Elsewhere being such a wonderfully chunky publication (twenty-five tales) there’s something for everybody. Imago" by Tristan Alice Nieto, a deeply unsettling zombie-POV revenge story featuring super cool robot butterfly vision--I don't read much horror but I think the stomach-turning-but-don't-stop vibe I got from this is probably why people are into that genre. In fact, the one story I had a problem with is Delicate Bodies, in which the main character is a zombie who rapes and then kills her ex-boyfriends/crushes. The reason I wanted Casey on board is, I was confident I could deal with fixing people’s world-building, but I wanted someone who could really help people with character dynamics.

Most of the stories hit the perfect tone right off the bat, and some have snuck back into my psyche months after I dismissed them too quickly. In other ways, stories that centered this imagined futures where transition related issues are thought of and orchestrated in different ways. Most of the authors are huge sci-fi nerds themselves and I think they guided me along right where I came up short. Not to mention helping to fulfill on the tantalizing glimpse of a TARDIS team nearly ten years ago that seemed like it would never happen. Calvin Gimpelevich's story "Rent, Don't Sell"--about body autonomy, bodily ownership, and body fascism, which centers an amputee veteran who inhabits other people's bodies at the gym for a living so that they can become fit without experiencing the pain of exercise; she meets a trans lesbian who is living in a body she traded for with a trans man--but the trans girl wants her old body back, and might not be able to win it legally.

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She exists in a parallel reality even time-travel wouldn't deliver me to, if I were to be sent back to my teenage self and, instead of a forced puberty, given my choice of hormones. This trans girl living the first day of the rest of her life, was the character that stayed with me the longest. Usually I breeze through a book in a day or two, but I’ve been savoring this one so I can appreciate all of the very different stories. In doing so they also show how widening pupils’ geographical perspective on a period can sharpen their historical thinking by giving them a broader frame of reference and thus more points of comparison. The plots vary from someone quietly ruminating in space about microaggressions to intense cyberpunk.Anyway, out of 25 stories there were maybe two I thought were weak and a couple more that I gave up on because they were long or hard to follow (sorry, I don't text, I don't know what those symbols even mean) but for an anthology of what seems to be fairly newish authors that is a very strong showing. After exploring the differences between elsewhere and meanwhile, it is clear that these two words have distinct meanings and should not be used interchangeably. Where did the idea come from to collect stories by trans people writing speculative fiction in particular?