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Other Issue 12, BAD GENDER!, July 2007

The Other Comrades by Alana Rivera. "TT was shorthand for the English word tomboy, and PP was short for femme."
Wonderful Things Are Happening in China by Jen Burke Anderson. "One never saw blue sky in Guangzhou any more."
Notes From Outside The Gender Spectrum by Andrea Zanin. "Blood, sweat and tears. Plus a smear of shit and two different flavors of ejaculate."
The Top 40 (or so) Gender-Frakking Movies Of All Time! "Dildo-fighting and a girl-boy football match lead to an Important Lesson about feminism."
Taking Out Our Tits by Kathryn Fischer. "To me there's nothing wrong with being a stripper, and I'd just as soon call myself one than elevate myself as an 'exotic performance artist.'"
Whose Bad Gender? by Jordy Jones. "If you cared about validating my identity, you'd have sex with me!"
Love Hotel Diaries by Kristin Abkemeier. "The cigarettes are piling up into a mountain."
Buying Obedience by Greta Christina. "Boy, sex work is weird."
Vagina Dentata by Leslie Baze. "Is your butthole an unattractive brown?"
Fit For The Pit by Nicole Gluckstern. "Even Sid Vicious couldn't wear his rubber T-shirt for long."
Welcome To The New Gender Binary! by Julia Serano. "In queer/trans spaces, there are very few trans women."
In My Community There Is Problem by Sacha Arnold. "Even the Jewiest Jew isn't safe any more."
The Impact of Self Defense by Suzanne Kleid. "The padded faux-muggers, like real muggers, did not stay silent."

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Other Issue 11, Dec. 2006

Clones Have Human Rights by Annalee Newitz. "Human cloning is just another method of reproduction."
Dungeons & Decorations by Shauna Rogan. "A bored prisoner is an insolent prisoner."
Nacho Libre by Christopher J. Garcia. "Nacho Libre tells the truth."
That's Just Semantics by Sacha Arnold. "Marr spends most of the book pleasuring the likes of the Piece o' Shit, Crazy Joey, Tony the shit-eater, the titular Mad-Man Mike, and one Leaky Sowps."
We Drink Beverages! "The sickening aftertaste of cleaning products is the very taste of submission."
Psychological Considerations by Aaron Raz Link. "When I was seventeen I told my mother I wanted some female organs removed."
5 Easy Steps To Getting Laid In Second Life by Jackson West. "The top two businesses in Second Life are sex and weapons."
The Ten Commandments by Nate Hill. "Thou shalt not sew animal parts onto thy body."
Nectar by Damon Brown. "He understood that my taking his toothbrush would make his wife happier than he ever could."
Billy and the Magic Midget by Terry Bisson. "The midget made Billy's mother disappear. 'Now we can watch TV.'""
Second Nature Versus My Own Romance Machine by Amanda Davidson. "For a performance art project, Ryan castrated the campanile."

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Other Issue 10, Monkeys!, March 2006

Totally Nerdcore Action! by Quinn Norton. "Every year there's more kids with laptops making these rap songs."
new jersey. 1956. by m.i. blue. "Hope... say 'papa...'."
The Monkey That Became A Pop Star. "It's a man-eat-monkey world out there."
Words Often Fail by Suzanne Kleid. "I'm the only female stutterer I've met in person."
Women's Work by Rebecca Ryder Neipris. "Women tout primatology as a feminist science."
Monkeyisms by Nicole Gluckstern. "Who could object to phrases such as 'monkeysational?'"
Why Monkeys Are The New Zombies by Christopher J. Garcia. "Big ups to zombies from me, and I'm not alone."
Me And My Helper Monkey by Justin Chin. "A gamely gibbon or a plucky baboon."
I Was A Monkey Frightener! by Charlie Anders. "Everywhere we went, swarms of monkeys."
Darwin Is So Cute! by Annalee Newitz. "It's easy to forget that humans are just a mutation."
My Fill Of Nostalgia by Jeff Weitzel. "I practically had to restrain Bob physically from throwing a cow together for me."

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Other Issue 9, March 2006

Chicken Monster by Jen Burke Anderson. "Chickens experience life very intensely."
Galley Gal Gone Wild by Nicole Gluckstern. "You wear your bathing suit when it's 15 degrees out?"
The Manicheans Were Right by Chaim Bertman. "Christian science fiction has a very special relationship to paranoia."
I Brake For Colonials by Cheryl Eddy. "Powdered wigs and shoe buckles for everyone!"
What's So Bad About Evil? Interview with Jacqueline Carey. "From Tolkein onward, epic fantasy has embraced dualism as a central tenet."
Blog It, Sister! by Liz Henry. "I told my own stories, and that had a ripple effect that changed the world."
Gender Identity Theft by Lisa Lees. "The Real ID Act is likely to strengthen the contention that gender is set at birth and cannot be changed."
Cobb Wakes Up by Rudy Rucker. "Cobb had no sensation of a body, which suggested that he was being simulated as a subsystem of some large computation."
The Future: A to Z by Lori Selke. "Does the android have a soul?"
TWoPitude! by Mark Peters. "Have you ever thought a green-goo-injecting horrendo-Mom was crap-diddly-tastic?"
Southern Hospitality by Laura Poole. "Home parties for sex toys are particularly appealing to Southern women."
What's This Shit Go For? by Johnny QP. "Don't commit felonies for free."
PLUS photos by Jennifer Whitney, poetry by Aysha Cromeenes and Anne Bergman, and comics by Isaac Cates & Mike Wenthe.

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Other Issue 8, October 2005

Most Of Us Are Here For Drugs by Nicole Gluckstern. "I wondered how the children in school felt about telling their friends they lived in prison."
Stalking Elly by Dexie Morgen. "I tend to stalk people who do me absolutely no good."
The Beautiful Failures by Abigail Goldman. "They get three minutes to sell themselves on TV. The less experience, the better."
Best. Inventions. Ever. by Jason Schultz. "More and more, we are seeing patented dreams turn into legal nightmares."
The Full Monti by Bryan Bell. "All I took with me were my portraits of myself and my ego."
Fresh Meat. Photos by E. Ramstad and Lanaye' Yiriqui La Yaqui.
Ms. Gayland's Psychic Abilities by Cheryl Klein. "All this time when she thought she was conjugating verbs and discussing the skeletal system, she was offering her ugly, newly boobed body up as a sacrifice to visibility, to pathos."
A Modest Proposal by Marshall Smith. "Before invading our next country, let's offer amnesty to the little ones of that nation: Place them in Neverland and let them spend some quality time with Michael."
Big Men by Chris Garcia. "Unless one of them marries the Chief's daughter, they'll be eaten."
Read Only by Seth Schoen. "Like other allegedly perverted pleasures, spoken Latin is most readily available in major cities."

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Other Issue 7, Payback!, June 2005

The Samples No Longer Refer To Their Source by Chris Palmer. "I am more likely to listen to field recordings than music at this point."
The Prime Directive by Chaim Bertman. "A whole Galapagos of Abba songs to which you've never developed antibodies."
The Return of Revenge. "I can't watch the thing without thinking I'm somehow the object of revenge."
Don't Get Mad... Get Laid! by Diana Cage. "She was punishing him, and through him all men."
Test Tube Lovers by Annalee Newitz. "Like all good romances, it serves as both a seduction and a warning."
Yours For The Taking by Suzanne Kleid. "I could actually kill you if I want."
Ballerina Pie Fight Photos by Eric Kroll, Larry Utley, Polly Hommel and others.
Get Even With The Government by Annie Harrison. "A simple restatement of these facts could completely change the status of marijuana."
Your Pain Amuses Me by Gregory Dicum. "The best things in life are all tinged with evil."
Feminist Vice. "The Beauty Myth doesn't even have any horsies with extra parts, like horns or wings (or a dozen extra pussies, in a cute doily pattern, maybe?)"
Top Ten Least Successful Revenge Attempts In History by Claire Light. "When getting revenge, be sure to know what you're getting it for."

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Other Issue 6, Utopia/Dystopia, February 2005

Dying For David Cassidy by John Marr. "The sight of Keith Partridge in the flesh was like a transcendent moment of religious ecstasy."
Top 10 21st. Century Eugenics Programs by Claire Light. "Today's eugenics programs are clean, packaged, and visible by their invisibility."
Screw by John Shirley. "We were all part of selling our world out to these soulless things."
Women Remake The World: A Timeline of Feminist Utopias by Liz Henry. "Feminist utopia is also revolution."
Classy Freddie Blassie by Christopher J. Garcia. "Blassie made sure the violence he perpetrated at ringside was right in front of these women, so the camera could pick up their incredible reactions."
Goddamn Electric by Jon Quaccia. "Heavy metal taught me constructive negativity."
Hog Heaven by Abigail Goldman. "We act like outlaws and look like outlaws and ride like outlaws so we can move into the outlaws."
Harrison Ford Was Right by Alicia Goranson. "I'm drowning in stagnant time."

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Other Issue 5, October 2004

How Gay Marriage Ruined My Het Relationship by Karen Solomon. "Gay marriage made us feel like big, fat spoiled jerks."
Visit Swamp Town, U.S.A. by Diane Goldberg. "We've entered the age of relentlessly stupid and masturbatory memorializing of all things American."
Cartoon Authoritarianism by Shauna Rogan. "What's that, President Mittens? We're dropping 70 planeloads of radioactive scorpions on Marrakech? Awww, that's so adorable."
The Thing About Hinckley by Elizabeth Searle. "How come Daddy didn't think Hinckley was a HERO?"
Brain Damage by Annalee Newitz. "At its core, neuroscience fiction is about what happens to our brains when they are colonized by wankers."
Sexual Fundamentalism by Charlie Anders. "We need tent revivals for sex. We need our own Promise Keepers."
A Taxonomy of Vipers by Chaim Bertman. "In the venom is a whisper of the antidote."
The Powderhole by Michelle Tea. "On very bad days, Candon will talk about digging herself back into the landfill, but mostly she just turns quiet and chews the walls."
Blood Quantum by Jennifer Fox Bennett. "The attempt to define a Native person as "Indian" dances fleetingly between the fuzzy lines of racial, cultural and ethnic identity."
The Pleasures of Deception by Seth Schoen. "Nearly everyone has been on both sides of deception."
The Tranny, The Bitch and the Wardrobe by Simon Sheppard. "Clive thought of putting on his mother's dresses. It would be as if she'd never left."
Mock The Church by Joel Schalit. "Standing up to religion is a form of anti-fascism."

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Other Issue 4, June 2004

The Brown Sound by Jonathan Sterne. "The brown noise enters through the ear and exits through the rear."
God Bless the Rouge, Blanc et Bleu by Abigail Goldman. "The sheep's face had a meaty sneer and the sack was warm as urine."
Kick Out The Jams, Genderfuckers! by Larry-Bob Roberts. "Almost weekly you can witness a gender-transgressing rock band."
Sex and the Single Fighter-Mage by Shannon Cochran. "I first had sex at the age of 75. I was an elf named 'Windkiss.'"
Decimal Universe by Chaim Bertman. "When a scientist invents a pseudoscience, it is a sad reflection on an entire civilization."
Can't Buy Like by Annalee Newitz. "People will pay for sex and love, but they won't pay for friendship."
Xing Up by Jyoti Mishra. "All this current inane banter about 'espresso sex' is yet another mask for the same old pole-in-the-hole dick-centered reification of sex."
Coral's Pocket by Hanne Blank. "Misery still streamed through her as Coral watched her uterus leap like a trout from the surgeon's hands."
Snakes and Rats by Gregory Dicum. "Close your eyes and do the taste test, and you'll find to your horror that color has no flavor."

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Other Issue 3, February 2004

Lexicon by Cecilia Tan. "All the words of Chinese that I know I can list on a single page."
Fag Hags and Dyke Tykes In Recovery. "Do you find yourself using the word 'fabulous' on a daily basis?"
Marijuana and the Pocket Vibrator Bitches: Lynnee Breedlove Interviews Ed Rosenthal. "I'm addicted to chocolate, so should we make it illegal?"
Jed and Winnie by Kirk Read. "Whatever impulse makes a girl clench up about rats and night dirt and worms having sex with themselves right in your palm, well, those parts of her were long dead."
The Boundary Police by Charlie Anders. "There are many reasons why the Boundary Police walk their lonely beat, along the dark side streets of identity politics."
New Noise, Old Noise by Joel Schalit. "Music without any discernable arrangements, that was brutally loud and unpleasant to fuck to."
New World Odor by Jim Munroe. "Personally, I didn't think the young fella was doing the cause any good."
Bone Break Fever Dream by Mat Honan. "I swallowed a Tylenol and prayed for Thailand."

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Other Issue 2, October 2003

My Summer Vacation by Diane Goldberg. "I love stuff formerly owned by wealthy people."
The Future of War by David Gerrold, Cory Doctorow, Nalo Hopkinson and others. "If we manage to muster any sense as a species, then war will have no future."
Poem: The Beautiful by Michelle Tea. "you can just forget about everything america... i'm going home."
The New Other America by Doug Henwood. "Poor people are never very far away in the physical sense."
I Am Bill's Butt by Bill Brent. "Bill's endorphins get all the fun, those lazy sons o' bitches."
The Great American Makeover Novel by Marilyn Wann. "Do we really enjoy depictions of such craven desire for conformity?"
Two Cubans by John Bowker. "With so-called peasant dishes, there's a huge labor component involved."
The Opposite of Ethnic Cleansing by Charlie Anders. "I flinched every time one of them thanked me for uncovering the truth."
Five Things I Hate About NPR by Annalee Newitz. "NPR is too nice."
The End of the World as They Knew It by James Rocchi. "Horror cinema was not afraid to end the world."

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Other Issue 1, June 2003

Char King, Earth Oracle by Dev Green. "Strap yourself in as we go across Don't Go There land."
Reclaim the Suits by Stephen Duncombe. "In your eyes, the well-suited man is John Ashcroft."
In Our Pajamas by Gerard Jones. "Superheroes are heroic fantasies for people who no longer believe in heroes."
You Got Your Keffiyeh in My Burka by Joel Schalit. "Every progressive movement has to endure moments of well-intentioned cluelessness."
Redneck Environmentalism by Sean Captain. "A grass manager first and a cowboy second."
Sexing the Database by Annalee Newitz. "Your gender is threaded into the datastream."
Pornography by Daphne Gottlieb. "The DJ announces I'm available for lapdances as I sink into the corner bawling."
Mutts at the Dog Show by Gregory Dicum. "I belong to a wave of the randomly heritaged, the obscurely mixed."
Your Mouth Is Open by Jan Richman. "I've wanted to fuck someone with Tourettes ever since I could remember."
Hedwig's Six Inches by Jordy Jones. "Privilege can afford to be apolitical."

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