Welcome to The Feminist Bibliothecary’s Lite Reads, where we read a different short story every week, and discuss it here and on social media. This week’s Lite Reads selection is Black, Their Regalia by Darcie Little Badger. This selection was chosen with Indigenous History Month in mind.
Black, Their Regalia by Darcie Little Badger was published in 2016 in Fantasy Magazine’s special issue “People of Colo(u)r Destroy Fantasy.” This dark fantasy story, with some humour woven throughout, tells of the Apparently Siblings, a group of young Apache and Navajo musicians in the wake of a new plague.
Darcie Little Badger is Lipan Apache and an enrolled member of the Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas. She is a speculative fiction writer and scientist, with a BA in Geosciences and a PhD in Oceanography (she studied gene expression in toxin-producing phytoplankton). Darcie Little Badger has had her short fiction work featured in anthologies such as Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time: An LGBT and Two-Spirit Sci-fi Anthology and Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection Volume 2, and in publications such as Fantasy Magazine and Strange Horizons.
Black, Their Regalia by Darcie Little Badger can be read in its entirety on Fantasy Magazine’s website here. There is also a button at the top of the story that allows you to listen to an audio recording of this story instead. You can read the author spotlight from this issue here.
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