Rainbow Space Magic 2025 is Here
Sat–Sun, Oct 4–5
Conversations about queer speculative fiction.
It’s free. It’s online. Register and attend, please.
Most days I blog at length about things that are, well, stressful.
Today I am telling you about something good.
“Writing with resistance, imagining a better future.”
Here’s the schedule: Saturday and Sunday.
What can I tell you about queer speculative fiction? Right now, off the top of my head, it is this.
Each of us tries to comprehend how we are unique yet how we can connect with others like us. We want to know how we’ve been shaped by the world we’re born into. We’re co-investigating: asking hard questions, guessing.
We look past our superficial personae. We look into our truer, more expansive, rooted selves. We’ll improve, we’ll learn. We’ll keep discovering how much we have to learn, how it will never be enough.
But we’ll have to break some rules. We retrieve something we lost on the path through the dark woods; at first, it might sound a bit complex. All the people are in multiple relationships. There’s an atmosphere and it’s full of clouds. It’s all political, and we’ve got to take one step back from judging and being judged so we have space to tell the story. We let the bees find the flowers, and we follow them, and trace their path, then edit it ruthlessly, omitting needless pollen.
If you write a novel, you give away part of your life to it, and it becomes your own past and future. When you sell it, you have to put a price on it. These boundaries keep changing. We are storytelling witches, and the spell we cast is freeing.
You can sign up for Rainbow Space Magic here. Again: Free, online, now.
