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Inclusive Future Magazine: Visions from a Gender-Inclusive Future is an anthology of speculative prose and art in the guise of a pop-culture magazine from the future. All of the creators involved are trans, nonbinary, and/or genderqueer, and it provides a collective vision for a gender-inclusive future by answering the question: What might gender look like fifty years from now?

This is it, folks:

Our Kickstarter - which is our sole method of taking orders for the print ($12) and ebook ($5) zines - is LIVE!

The Kickstarter campaign will run through June 21st. If you want a copy, you have until then to head over to our Kickstarter page and order one!

Ok but what is Inclusive Future Magazine?

Inclusive Future Magazine is an anthology of speculative prose and art in the guise of a pop culture magazine created for all people, from the future.

Visions from a Gender-Inclusive Future is exclusively by trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer people. It provides a collective vision for a gender-inclusive future by answering the question, What might gender look like fifty years from now?

This is the last week for people to order a copy of Inclusive Future Magazine: Visions from a Gender-Inclusive Future! Our campaign ends at 8:55pm Pacific time on Friday, June 21st.

We’re super pleased with how this campaign is going, and we’re only a couple hundred away from reaching our second stretch goal of $1400, at which point all backers with physical rewards will receive a free art card of the cover art, and backers with digital rewards will have the option of ordering an art card as an add-on for the cost of postage.

We'd really love to hit that second stretch goal! Hitting that goal will allow us to fully cover to cost of printing and shipping the zine, without having to pay anything out of our own pockets.

Al Hess (he/him) is author of World Running Down, Key Lime Sky, Yours Celestially, and the award-winning Hep Cats of Boise series. He does portraits in both pencil and oil paint, and loves drawing fellow authors' characters nearly as much as his own. He writes cozy and uplifting stories with queer, trans, and neurodiverse representation. Visit his website at alhessauthor.com and find him on instagram @alhess_author.

What was your inspiration for this painting?

I'm very into art deco aesthetics, so I wanted to imagine a non-binary person in a leadership role who embodied this fashion with a futuristic twist.

Anything else to add?

My next book, Key Lime Sky, comes out August 2024. It's a cozy and romantic small town alien invasion story with a non-binary, autistic, and part Indigenous main character and full of trippy weirdness, found family, and pie!

Juliet Kemp (they/them) is a queer, non-binary, writer from London. The first book of their fantasy series, The Deep And Shining Dark was a Locus Recommended Read 2018; the fourth and final book, The City Revealed came out in 2023. Their short fiction has appeared in venues including Uncanny, Analog, and Cast of Wonders, and they were short-listed for the WSFA Small Press Award in 2020 and 2023. Visit their website at julietkemp.com, find them on Instagram @juliet_kemp, and find them on Twitter/X @julietk.

What inspired "Restore Revive Reciprocate"?

The cover image!

P.S.C. Willis (they/them) is a queer British writer, currently living in Shanghai where they are an active member of the writing and drag communities. They write everything from flash fiction to novel length and like their stories to inspire belief in good people, in magic, or both. P has been published in the anthology And Lately, the Sun and in DreamForge Magazine. Follow them on Twitter/X @psc_willis.

What inspired "My Mechsuit is an Anti-Capitalist Machine"?

A love of performance and a fascination with body modification and the types of tech I wish could exist, and then working out what alternative societies could arise around that.

As of the writing of this, 60 backers so far have pledged $1,088 to our Kickstarter campaign. THANK YOU! Our first stretch goal has been surpassed, which means that all backers will receive a phone wallpaper! WOOT!

Our dream is to get Inclusive Future Magazine into at least 100 different hands… that’s the reasoning behind the $1400 stretch goal. And we’re only $312 away from that dream!

Ryan Breadinc (he/him) writes for comics, short stories and all sorts of colourful creative projects that catch the wandering eye. Many of his projects include an ‘inclusive future’ of some kind – after all, we all deserve a story. Find the man in Bunbury, Western Australia, or online, rambling. Visit his website at breadincbooks.com or follow him on Instagram and Twitter/X @breadincbooks.

What inspired "HologramU"?

When I was young, the biggest issue I faced was judging my own physical appearance - and being misgendered in public. Looking at the idea of a more inclusive future, I started thinking about what would have made a difference to both that young me and the one that exists in the present, and the idea of HologramU manifested. I loved the idea of Martine, a young trans women in STEM facing these same issues and using it as a way to contribute positively to the world around her.