Claire Beans (she/they) and Han Koehle (it/any) revisit Gideon the Ninth, Act IV, Chapter 26. Harrow falls back on her old patterns. Gideon seeks comfort. Silas makes an offer.

Content Warning: child death, murder, verbal abuse, cannibalism, lyctor sex, experimental abuse, genocide, torture, eugenics

Further Reading:

Vrinda Dalmiya. 2000. Loving Paradoxes: A Feminist Reclamation of the Goddess Kali. Hypatia 15(1):125-150.

Anastasia Pestinova (c. 2023) Transgressive Feminine: The Case of Baba Yaga

Nicky Falkof (2025) Trump and South Africa: What is White Victimhood, and How Is It Linked to White Supremacy? The Conversation.

Lucy Nicholas, Sal Clark, Christine Agius, and Kay Cook (2024) Antifeminist, Manosphere and Right-Wing Extremist Sentiments Among Men Who Use Domestic and Family Violence: Masculinism, Misinformation, and the Justificatory Logics of Violence. NORMA: 1-20. [Audio version available]

Lyz Lenz (2015) A Brief History of Dwarfism Pacific Standard.

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Claire (she/they) and Han (it/any) reluctantly tackle chapter 25 of Gideon the Ninth. In our production notes this chapter summary read ":((((((("

Content Warning: dead dove do not eat. I cannot emphasize enough how much we're going to talk about child death this week. Also general colonial violence, torture, psychiatric abuse, war, other killing, child soldiers, sexual violence against children and adults, at least passing reference to cannibalism.

Further Reading:

Frantz Fanon (1961) The Wretched of the Earth

Han (2025) Canaan House as a Strategic Action Field

Aimé Césaire (1950) Discourse on Colonialism

bell hooks (2005) The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

Lana & Lily Wachowski (1999) The Matrix

Alok Menon in Conversation with Paul Holdengräber (2023) Oxy Live!

Alan Moore (1986-1987) Watchmen

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Claire Beans (she/they) and Han Koehle (it/any) dissect Gideon the Ninth Chapter 24. The Tridentarii have a Moment. Babs does Not have a moment. A coalition forms. Claire and Han have questions about the Ninth soil biome. Also like, what is Silas's whole deal?

Content Warning: emotional abuse, incest, genocide, death

Further Reading:

Aja Romano (2019) The Archive of Our Own Just Won a Hugo. That's Huge for Fanfiction.

FanLore (2025) Dead Dove: Do Not Eat

Aimé Césaire (1950) Discourse on Colonialism