Speculative queerness

HE Milla co-wrote one of the bonus essays for the December 2025 collection, with Christopher Caldwell: “Dressed like a Villain, Built like a Savior: Queer Coding and the Future of Heroism” - about queer coded villains whose ideas and actions deserve to be reassessed. In this new essay, Milla looks at how a fascinating range of authors have presented complex sexual and gender identities, and suggests that speculative fiction is precisely what enables that sort of exploration. I haven’t read Orlando since first-year university; I think I’ll have to pull my copy off the shelf….

Rewriting Creation stories

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