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Chupacabras by Vida James - A Puerto Rican woman, frustrated by the creeping encroachment of capitalist forces degrading her community takes action. A very angry story.

The Rise and Fall of Storm Bluff, Kansas: An Oral History by Izzy Wasserstein - An Anarchist community gets taken down by the man. Still mostly inspiring.

Interview with L.A. Kauffman & Andrea Dehlendorf discussing protests, how victory can come as a surprise, and how the work is never done.

The Mighty Slinger by Tobias S. Buckell & Karen Lord - A band uses its songs to influence politics and social change over a century by slipping in and out of hibernation.

Realer Than Real by Charlie Jane Anders - Trans activists in a near future dystopia figure out how to get around restrictive gender based clothing laws.

Aversion by Malka Older - A planned enhanced reality protest gets derailed when a tester questions the ethics of the method.

Interview with Scott Knowles - Detailing COVIDCalls, a project to document the pandemic, and speaking on the importance of not platforming disinformationists.

A Brief Letter on the Origins of the Harpy Aviary in the Kirani Citadel by Jaymee Goh - A fantasy story detailing an attempted coup in a country with an aristocracy that works on meritocracy rather than bloodlines.

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Persefoni in the City by Sabrina Vourvoulias - A woman buries herself in a garden plot in mourning of her missing daughter and the potential loss of a community garden.

The Quiet Heroics of Gardening by Ursula Vernon - An essay on heirloom plants and small scale heroics.

The Gray and the Green by Nisi Shawl - A young man who has just taken over his father's corporate empire has his day disrupted by messages from himself that he doesn't remember.

Disruption by Samit Basu - A character from Basu's The City Inside is interrogated about the happenings in that novel, talking about methods he used to stifle dissent.

Interview with Kendra Pierre-Louis on the difference between journalism and activism, and science fiction that can teach people about real world systems.

Where Memory meets the Sea - A Woman living in a future Greece where a fascist government uses memory blockers to make people forget atrocities that they have witnessed, or that have happened to them, goes to the sea where the effects are temporarily removed.

Rewriting the Old Disability Script by Nicola Griffith - An essay about implicit bias and the power story has to overcome it.

Originals Only by Rose Eveleth - The last professional basketball player without biological enhancements is used as a political ping pong ball by both sides of a purity debate.

Other Wars Elsewhere by R.B. Lemberg - An activist aid worker returns to her home country from delivering medical supplies to a war zone to find that her fellow activists have moved on to other causes. It was inspired by the current Ukrainian conflict.