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Jennessa Hester is a transgender writer and scholar based in Texas. She is a Lambda Literary Fellow and has been a finalist for the Rhysling Award and Prufer Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in Bellingham Review, Cream City Review, HAD, and elsewhere. Find her online at jennessahester.com.


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24 Mar 2025
The winner is the one with the most living wasps
Every insect was a chalk outline of agony / defined, evaluated, ranked / by how much it hurt
By: Samantha Lane Murphy
Podcast read by: Emmie Christie
In this episode of the Strange Horizons Fiction podcast, Michael Ireland presents Reprise by Samantha Lane Murphy, read by Emmie Christie. Subscribe to the Strange Horizons podcast: Spotify
Spec Fic and the Politics of Identity: Finding the Self in Other
Black speculative poetry works this way too. It’s text that is flexible and immediate. It’s a safe space to explore Afrocentric text rooted in story, song, dance, rhythm that natural flows from my intrinsic self. It’s text that has a lot of hurt, as in pain, and a lot of healing—an acceptance of self, black is beauty, despite what the slave trade, colonialism, racism, social injustice might tell us.
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