What would a change-the-world criticism look like?

Next week I m heading to the Current Research in Speculative Fiction 2026 conference to talk about change-the-world literary criticism. I got the idea of change-the-world criticism from an open letter Nisi Shawl wrote to Octavia E. Butler. The letter was written on the occasion of the publication of Shawl s novel Everfair, several years after Butler s Continue reading What would a change-the-world…