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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.

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.