Samantha Murray

Somatechnics highlights the reciprocal bond between the sÃma and the techné of 'the body' and the techniques in which bodies are formed and transformed as crafted responses to the world around us. Structured around the themes of the governance of social bodies, the gendering of sexed bodies and the ...

First of all is “Pieces of My Body” by Caroline M. Yoachim. Caroline's writing is art. Which is why we're particularly happy to republish this story here this month.Our First run stories are just as impressive—a good mix of fun and fantasy and even some sci-fi action.For fun, we offer “Your Past Lif...

A Great Father's Day Gift! MY FRIEND JOHN honors the household fixture that’s often overlooked and rarely appreciated. MY FRIEND JOHN is a collection of off-color,... slightly vulgar... sometimes corny... one-line wise cracks about the unsung hero who’s always there to help us out of a tight squeeze...

The future is here…the future is now! Orson Scott Card, Kevin J. Anderson and Larry Niven have seen the future. Now, you can, too. A constellation of the brightest lights in the Science Fiction and Fantasy firmament have judged these authors to be the best, the brightest, the truest emerging stars i...

"Fat". In contemporary society the word never fails to elicit powerful emotions, especially as it relates to bodily health and appearance. But fat is a noun as well as an adjective and has a cultural life outside of its relationship with the human body. By focusing on the complex physical and experi...

Issue #205 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Raphael Ordoñez and Samantha Murray.

Exploring the rapidly increasing interest in obesity and fatness, this book engages with dominant ideas about "fatness" and analyses the assumptions that inform anti-fat attitudes in the West, looking at the intersection of medicine and morality in pathologizing "fat" bodies.