Dwelling in Probabilities

The Future Fire is an online magazine of social-political speculative fiction, with a particular focus on feminist, queer, postcolonial and ecological matters, is publishing a themed issue and anthology titled Outlaw Bodies, guest co-edited by Lori Selke. This is a brief conversation in which Lori asked TFF editor Djibril a few questions about the anthology.

Djibril al-Ayad: We received several proposals for guest co-edited themed issues/anthologies when we put out the call last year, all of which were very good ideas and at least several of which were strong social-political speculative themes that were right up our street. When my co-editors and I read through them all, though, we all immediately came back with Outlaw Bodies—there was no hesitation in taking on this collaboration from any of us. It was so obviously close to our interest in feminist science fiction and the intersections with queer, trans, disability and race issues, the proposal combined these elements into a coherent science-fictional context, and it already came with a kick-ass title attached. I’m sure it didn’t hurt that we could straightaway see the cyberpunk potential of