Franny Choi joins us on Queers at the End of the World to talk about her upcoming book, The World Keeps Ending, and The World Goes On, full of magnificent poems on apocalypse, grief, and branching paths at the scale of the planet and the personal.… More Season 2, Episode 9: This New Version of Your Life

Nat and Nina get into Earthlings, Sayaka Murata’s novel about aliens, dissociation, hedgehogs, trauma, violence and cannibalism in our very own dystopia.… More Season 2, Episode 8: Whatever it Takes

Game designer Naomi Clark joins us to talk about Consentacle, her two-player card game about consent and pleasure across very different bodies.… More Season 2, Episode 7: Touch Each Other’s Cards

Nat and Nino discuss Xenogenesis, Octavia Butler’s series on alien invasion, human resistance, tentacle sex, colonization, third genders, and more. … More Season 2, Episode 6: Palpitating Tentacular Desire

Nat and Nino interview Sarah Stockholm, the National Network Strategic Campaigns Director for Showing Up for Racial Justice (aka SURJ).… More Season 2, Episode 5: Will Our Bodies Know What to Do?

We’re covering The Martian! Both the book AND the movie, in which NASA scientist Mark Watney gets left for dead on the red planet.… More Season 2, Episode 4: Martian Space Potatoes

Poet Lillian-Yvonne Bertram talks with Nat and Nino about using code to write poems, the simple pleasures of button pushing, going slow to go fast, unsupervised AI on the internet, and more.… More Season 2, Episode 3: Refusing Erasure by Algorithm

Nat and Nino talk about the Matrix as an artifact of 90s idealism, a trans movie, a movie about human frailty via mechs and meat suits, plus red pill right-wingers and their blue-pill desires.… More Season 2, Episode 2: Reload Me!

Nat and Nino talk about Le Tigre and Octavia Butler as we try to figure out what’s drawing us to Sci-Fi tropes of escape and escapism.… More Season 2, Episode 1: Escape Stories

Nat and Nina are joined by Ellie Yanigasawa, Delesslin “Roo” George Warren, TreaAndrea Russworm, and Austen Osworth in the second half of our live play of Dream Askew. … More Season 1, Episode 16: Nothing’s Ever Over, Nothing’s Ever Perfect