Electric DreamsIn the future, well all be having sex with robots wont we? Roboticists say theyre a distracting science fiction, yet endless books, films and articles are written on the subject. Campaigns are even mounted against them. So why are sex robots such a hot topic? Electric Dreams picks apart the forces that posit sex robots as either the solution to our problems or a real threat to human safety, and looks at whats being pushed aside for us to obsess about

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as well as Writer-in-Residence at Augustana College

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’ writes Jim Greenhalf in his new collection

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Angela Davis and others in the pantheon of Black feminism

Noyau lived and wrote at a crucial time in the history of the island of Mauritius

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A brutalized woman is left for dead