Status Updates From Stories for Chip: A Tribute...

I'm reading the stories out of order.
-Anil Menon's Clarity was absolute favorite, haunting.
-Claude Lalumiere's story was a favorite.
-Kathryn Cramer's Characters in the Margins of a Lost Notebook was lovely
-Junot Díaz's Nilda has very strong voice and characters; felt the ending, tho it was realistic, petered out.
-Eileen Gunn
-Fabio Fernandes' Eleven Stations
-Michael Swanwick essay
-Tenea D Johnson

'You came from this here water, but you are also a part of this land...So find what you love most from both of those things that make you, and then you go out into this world and make yourself.'

Sheree Renee Thomas - River Clap Your Hands.

"Delany was instrumental in supporting the decolonization of my imagination, truly the most dangerous and subversive decolonization process, for once it has started, there are no limits on what can been visioned. This type of science fiction/speculative fiction,"visionary fiction"-as opposed to mainstream SF that reinforces dominant paradigms of power and oppression-is the foundation of my work now.."Walidah Imarisha