This year’s awards were chosen by a panel of more than sixty industry professionals, who sifted through over a thousand submissions from more than three-hundred publishers. The winners were announced at last night’s virtual awards ceremony.
Here are the recipients that fall under the speculative fiction banner this year:
Gay Romance
LGBTQ Anthology
Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction edited by Joshua Whitehead (Arsenal Pulp Press)
LGBTQ Comics
LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror
Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel: Stories by Julian K. Jarboe (Lethe Press)
You can see the full list of winners here.
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha,
Chronology (detail) 1977, color photocopies mounted on board, eighteen sheets, dimensions variable. Courtesy BAMPFA, gift of the Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Memorial Foundation. Photo: Benjamin Blackwell.
Grace M. Cho is the author of Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War
(University of Minnesota Press, 2008). Inscribed within its history of Korean women’s sexual labor for US servicemen during the Korean War are cracks between social, personal, and political memory that shed light on how the repeated disavowal of unprocessed material leaves traumatic residues. Published this month with Feminist Press, Cho’s second book, Tastes Like War
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âI had three kids this morning bring up miscarriages of their family members,â she says. âThey talked about how devastating it was for their family and [wanted to understand] why not every pregnancy results in a live baby.â
A reported one in four pregnancies will end in miscarriage; the number may even be higher, given that many people do not know theyâre pregnant when their body passes a non-viable pregnancy. Yet to Christensenâs knowledge, miscarriage, much like abortion, is not included in public sexual education curricula.
âHonestly, probably because itâs too close to abortion,â Christensen says. âPeople are so uneducated about [miscarriage], and abortion is so politicized, that I think itâs one of those things where we leave it out in an effort not to get into trouble for something seen as controversial.â