Sci-fi magazine pulls story by trans writer after `barrage of attacks`
(The Guardian Books News)

I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter by Isabel Fall reworked a transphobic meme, but author asked to withdraw it after angry receptionA science fiction story that repurposed the transphobic meme `I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter` as its title has been removed from the magazine Clarkesworld following a `barrage of attacks` on its transgender author.Isabel Fall´s story, which was published in Clarkesworld earlier this week and quickly went viral, opens as the narrator describes how they `sexually identify as an attack helicopter`. `I decided that I was done with womanhood, over what womanhood could do for me; I wanted to be something furiously new,` Fall writes. `To the people who say a woman would´ve refused to do what I do, I say - Isn´t that the point?` Continue reading...