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She was the jewel of women found because none else were born

Just in time for the slightly more than centenary of the first birth control clinic in the United States of America, Aqueduct Press has released Adventures in Bodily Autonomy: Exploring Reproductive Rights in Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror, edited by Raven Belasco. Its furious, thoughtful, hopeful, haunting contents include stories by Nisi Shawl, Kathleen Alcalá, K Ibura, Cecilia Tan, Cynthia Gralla, Anya Johanna DeNiro, Jaymee Goh and more. I am honored to have my novelette "As the Tide Came Flowing In," originally published in last year's chapbook of the same name, included among them. All proceeds are donated to Reproductive Freedom for All, formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America. Everything right now feels like destruction. It is all the more important to make art that is a defense, a defiance, and a damn good anthology.