The April 2013 issue of the CSZ is out

The April 2013 issue of The Cascadia Subduction Zone is now available at http://thecsz.com. I have a long essay in it myself, one prompted by a recent re-reading of Raccoona B. Sheldon's "Your Faces, O My Sister, Filled of Light" and the reflections on changing perceptions of sex and gender that it (inevitably, I think) provoked. I've written on this subject before, but obviously its not through with me yet. The issue has a second (shorter) essay, for our Grandmother Magma column, that was especially pleasurable to read: Karen Joy Fowler's piece on Sylvia Townsend Warner's classic feminist fantasy, Lolly Willowes (or the Loving Huntsman).

Here's the entire table of contents for the issue:

Current Issue
Vol. 3 No. 2 — April 2013

Essay

Asking the Wrong Questions: Alice Sheldon,
the Gender Learning Curve, and Me
  by L. Timmel Duchamp

Poem

1995
  by Kelly Rose Pflug-Back

Grandmother Magma

Lolly Willowes
(or the Loving Huntsman)
by Sylvia Townsend Warner
  reviewed by Karen Joy Fowler

Reviews

These Burning Streets
by Kelly Rose Pflug-Back
  reviewed by Evan Peterson

Sister Mine
by Nalo Hopkinson
  reviewed by Ama Patterson

Necessary Ill
by Deb Taber
  reviewed by Nic Clarke

A Stranger in Olondria
by Sofia Samata
  reviewed by Nisi Shawl

How to Greet Strangers
by Joyce Thompson
  reviewed by Daniel José Older

Bio-Punk: Stories from the Far Side of Research
edited by Ra Page
  reviewed by Victoria Elisabeth Garcia

Featured Artist

Cheryl Richey