The Outliers

The Outliers is an eclectic zine containing setting notes, character ideas, micro-fiction, and other ruminations on belonging outside belonging from a wonderful crew of ten collaborators. It's a supplement for Dream Askew and Dream Apart.

Dream Askew Contributors

Dia Lacina is an indigenous trans woman writer, photographer, and founding editor of CapsuleCrit.com. Her work is most frequently featured on Waypoint and dialacina.com. She tweets at @dialacina.

Dead Fire is a microfiction meditation on survivance and subaltern peoples who have already lived through the post-apocalypse.

Brandon O'Brien is a Black queer speculative fiction writer, performance poet, teaching artist and roleplaying game designer from Trinidad and Tobago. He is a mentee of Avery Alder's Emerging Designers Mentorship Program, currently working on a game about music, magic, community and finding one's voice. He believes that art and art-making, including play, is revolutionary, and his writing and design insists that the speculative is a lens through which we can reevaluate our personal and political realities, challenge hostile histories, and explore uncharted futures. In his writing, reading, design and play, he adores surreal circumstances, bittersweet and vulnerable relationships, and intriguing mysteries.

Brandon''s piece is about the emergence of queer enclaves from a Black and Caribbean context. He also contributed two poems intersecting with queerness, Afro-Caribbeanness, and collapse.

DC is a game designer from the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California. They've produced several Dungeons and Dragons supplements, but recently released their first Forged in the Dark game, Mutants in the Night. Their main goal is to create games that represent a diverse range of fantasies beyond the eurocentric focus of the roleplaying genre.

DC's piece is focused on how mutation & marginalization intersect at the edge of social collapse. What parallels exist between the world of fantasy mutation and the marginalized struggles within society?

The Degenderettes-NorCal are an art & advocacy club of trans & queer members who aim to support and uplift communities. They attempt to fill unfilled needs as best they can until more permanent & funded organizations can be built for them. Currently these projects include radical visibility, interpersonal support, self-defense, community protection, and connecting people to resources.

Led by Kayl Cassidy, The Degenderettes collaborated on a fiction piece that reflects on what ground-level queer resistance work actually entails.

Sasha Mannequin is a "post-rave" electronic musician, and part of the shadowy cabal of trans women working for revolutionary socialism. She wrote the theme music used in our Kickstarter video!

Her piece is on using the 20th century radical Jewish organizing concept of Doikayt to focus the play of Dream Askew, injecting de-assimilated Jewishness into the game, and organizing outside the limits the of "queer enclave.".