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Slug Selections for Equity

Slug Selections for Equity is a co-created library collection consisting of books members of the UCSC community have found meaningful as they seek to understand and celebrate the wide spectrum of human experiences and identities.

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Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
"It's important for LGBTQ characters to appear in SFF genre fiction, not just as magical figures in contemporary literature. The trans character does run into some issues of trans essentialism and suffering porn, but the portrayal is mostly positive and the setting is kind." - Anonymous

 

We See a Different Frontier edited by Fabio Fernandes and Djibril al-Ayad
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This anthology of speculative fiction stories on the themes of colonialism and cultural imperialism focuses on the viewpoints of the colonized. Sixteen authors share their experiences of being the silent voices in history and on the wrong side of the final frontier; their fantasies of a reality in which straight, cis, able-bodied, rich, anglophone, white males don't tell us how they won every war; and their revenge against the alien oppressor settling their "new world." -  Anonymous Slug