I Sexually Identify as the “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter” Controversy
SHORT FICTION by June Martin // Illustration by Sam Hindman Log off? Can’t be done. Some people are online, but I am online. Every time I touch something with my fingers, I know they’re wrong. Tactile sensation should be alien to me
Ability Score: Tabletop RPGs & the Mechanics of Privilege
Tabletop gaming can help us not just explore contemporary issues like disability, but also imagine new worlds and solutions to them.
Tamagotchi Girlfriend & The Future of Retrofuturism
The past has its own romance—but this, like all relationships, can only be fully understood in retrospect. by Colin Broadmoor “Hello, Dave! Thank you for joining me. Please, have a seat.” In the old days they would have shaken hands, but, instead, they
Body For Sale, Slightly Worn
In Masaaki Yuasa’s Kaiba, minds and bodies are just two more commodities on the market—revealing capitalism’s own dysfunctional relationship to bodily pleasure. by Will Riley In the first episode of 2008’s Kaiba, a sci-fi anime from Masaaki Yuasa, we find the male
Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny
Modern action and superhero films fetishize the body, even as they desexualize it. by RS Benedict When Paul Verhoeven adapted Starship Troopers in the late 1990s, did he know he was predicting the future? The endless desert war, the ubiquity of military