Friend, thank you for being such a loyal Bitch reader. As a token of appreciation, we're giving you a special sneak peek of the upcoming Fantasy issue of Bitch magazine. You can be the first to get the Fantasy issue by subscribing now!

Art and beauty direction by Salwa Rahman, photography by Alia Romagnoli, styling by Katie Gill Harrison, courtesy of Get Animated

The past couple of months have been difficult. So for this June issue of Bitch magazine, we wanted to offer you a little bit of distraction and a little room to daydream.

Fantasies are simultaneously about escaping and being grounded by imagining a world unlike our own. Whether your fantasy is to immerse yourself in something to forget about the stresses of the day (like envisioning a future where fairy godmothers are as queer as they want to be), or to dream of what a better world looks like (like prison abolition as the American Dream), subscribe today and join us on an 88-page journey through the fantasies that already exist—and the fantasies that we can work and will into existence.

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Select work in this issue:

 

A Tale of Two Poles: What Stripping in Guam Taught Me About Colonization

Natassja Schiel

16

Smoke Signal: Building the Past, the Present, and the Afrofuture

Mary Retta

18

Open Arms: The Fantastical Pull of Tentacle Porn

Cameron Glover

20

 

On the Mend: The Future of Fashion Is Sustainable

Adwoa Afful, Rosa Boshier, Mallika Khanna, Rachel Charlene Lewis, Carmen Rios, Marina Watanabe, and Andi Zeisler

24

In It Not to Win It: Indie Game Designers Queer Time, Space, and Play

Nina St. Pierre

32

Beyond Bars: Prison Abolition Should Be the American Dream

Reina Sultan

38

Capturing Comfort in the Time of Instagram

Ashanti Fortson

42

Godmothers of Invention: The Enduring Power of the Cinderella Story

Noa Azulai

48

 

Endless Euphoria: Carnival Celebrates Freedom, Defiance, and Age-Old Tradition

Wanna Thompson

62

Gilead Is Now: For Feminist Authors, Dystopia Is Already Here

Abby Neufeld

68

Begone with the Wind: How Hollywood Rewrites Slavery

Ayanna Dozier

74

Gate Crashing: Danielle Radford Wants to Change the Face of Nerd Culture

Marina Watanabe

78

Sound Out: Coming Home to Lavender Country

Kim Kelly

80

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