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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.

"The IOC didn't appoint it's first female member until 1981, nearly a century into its existence."

Best chapter in this book so far. Who killed the Buffalo? ✨CAPITALISM✨

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.

This overly romantic view of wild horses, ignoring their 10,000 year absence from the land, during which evolution moved on without them, and the stated historical reports of how reintroduced herds were damaging to the land, is kind of a black mark on this book.

"...eradicating Coyotes is virtually impossible."

Yes! Ha-ha-ha! 🦺