Ottawa, Saturday, April 18, 2026 — Who says fantasy and science fiction are merely escapist entertainment?
If you’re in Toronto (I wish I could be!), join *Cascade* and *Blight* author Rachel A. Rosen and Su J Soko, as they discuss discuss the role of art — and speculative fiction in particular — as a tool of community organizing and social justice imagining, and fighting fascism. Megan Kinch will be moderating the talk.
7:00 PM, Thursday, April 23, at Church of St. Stephen in-the-Fields, 103 Bellevue Avenue in the heart of downtown Toronto.
The event page is here: https://www.facebook.com/events/938052088984656/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22attachment%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22newsfeed%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D .
In other Rosen news, her Aurora Awads-nominated podcast (co-hosted with David A. Clink) Wizards and Spaceships, dropped its season finale on April 15th.
In the last episode before the summer, Rachel and David talk with the queen of messy, complicated, and antiheroic female protagonists Silvia Moreno-Garcia (author of The Intrigue) about how genre fiction is full of strong, independent women, badass heroines, brave Final Girls, and virginal princesses, and wonder, are we getting a little sick of it?
Honestly, I have a hard time keeping up with everything Rachel’s up to. Subscribe to her newsletter to keep yourself up-to-date!
