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Sleight
a journal of critical futures

Contribute your work to Sleight: a journal of critical futures, a new
publication of radical and transformative science fiction and fantasy.
Sleight brings together leading work in short story fiction, poetry,
theory and visual art grappling with oppression and resistance.
New voices in speculative fiction are offering powerful engagements with
race, gender, sexuality and liberation movements. In the seams of flesh
and metal, reality and dreams, impossible presents and emergent futures,
we are reimagining our world.
Sleight will investigate two central themes: bodies and social power.
Through speculative fiction exploring the liberation struggles and
oppression of communities of color, queers, women and people living with
disabilities, Sleight seeks to open and transform our physical and psychic
bodies. How do the common creatures that populate science fiction and
fantasy — cyborgs, aliens, androids, monsters, other species, virtual
beings — offer ways of revealing and questioning assumed, normative
conceptions of our bodies? How can we explore and challenge the legacies
of colonialism and white supremacy? How do queer, kinky, trans and
gender-nonconforming identities offer glimpses of radical new ways of
living with gender and desire? What’s next in the ongoing dialogues
between feminist social movements and feminist science fiction?
Sleight will offer fiction exploring the role of state power,
institutional violence, neocolonialism and class exploitation in shaping
our communities. How could future and fantasy societies alternatively
deal with crime, warfare and work? What worlds are we helping to create
with mass incarceration, global imperialism and the growth of extreme
poverty? How could communities of poor people and people of color
struggle to articulate new ways of living with each other and organizing
social power?
We strongly encourage contributions that play with the intersections and
tensions between genres, textual forms and themes. Sleight will
predominantly consist of short fiction, but also welcomes poetry, short
theoretical essays and visual art. We will publish twice yearly,
beginning early 2008. For the time being, all contributors and editors
are not compensated.
Contributions welcomed any time, with submissions to the first issue due
September 1, 2007.

Email contributions to sleightjournal@gmail.com.

We are also seeking new members of our editorial and design collective.