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Gender, Family, Nookie: The Speculative Frontier
The Increasingly Poor Economics of Penning Problematic Stories
Making People Care: Storytelling in Fiction vs. Marketing
Our Dystopia: Imagining More Hopeful Futures*
Where Have All the Women Gone? Reclaiming the Future of Fiction*
PART III: LET’S GET PERSONAL
Finding Hope in Tragedy: Why I Read Dark Fiction
Public Speaking While Fat
They’ll Come for You … Whether You Speak Up or Not
The Horror Novel You’ll Never Have to Live: Surviving Without Health Insurance
Becoming What You Hate
Let It Go: On Responding (or Not) to Online Criticism*
When the Rebel Becomes Queen: Changing Broken Systems from the Inside*
Terrorist or Revolutionary? Deciding Who Gets to Write History*
Giving Up the Sky*
PART IV: REVOLUTION
What We Didn’t See: Power, Protest, Story
What Living in South Africa Taught Me About Being White in America
It’s About Ethics in Dating*
Hijacking the Hugo Awards
Dear SFWA Writers: Let’s Chat About Censorship and Bullying
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: On Empathy and the Power of Privilege
Rage Doesn’t Exist in a Vacuum
Why I’m Not Afraid of the Internet
We Have Always Fought: Challenging the “Women, Cattle, and Slaves” Narrative
Epilogue: What Are We Fighting For?
Notes
Acknowledgments
Also by Kameron Hurley
About the Author
Copyright
*essays written specifically for this collection
THE GEEK FEMINIST REVOLUTION
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