Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction Tate One of the functions of

One of the functions of the artist is to take us to hell and get us out in one piece

But it won't be easy: he is hiding in the middle of Irish dancers

you can see the cartoonist's sensibilities — that penchant for slamming the manic and mundane into each other

and tangential stream of consciousness narrative that takes place in the mind of his continuing character

“I want to hurry and grow up…”

Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction Tate One of the functions of*This is NOT a comic! But sometimes we like books too! Edited by Lee Mandelo. Published by Lethe. Softcover, 274 pages, Prose, 2012. Speculative fiction is the literature of questions, of challenges and imagination, and what better to question than the ways in which gender and sexuality have been rigidly defined, partitioned off, put in little boxes? These seventeen stories explore the ways in which identity can go beyond binary from space colonies to