This past November, at the American Studies Association’s annual meeting in Montreal, I had the good fortune to celebrate two of my greatest loves – Science Fiction & Reciprocity.

This year’s theme at ASA asked “What Love Looks Like in Public” and I am overjoyed to say that panel 359, chaired by Raquel Baker, found one of the many answers to this plea. As respondent, I was delighted by the riveting conversation between André Carrington, Nicholas Francisco Centino, Alison Sperling, Margaret Ji Rhee, and Jess Erion – as we all came together to imagine the bountiful potentialities of creativity, scholarship and activism. We discussed the many futures of life on this planet – from the very human Différance of race and sexuality, to the nonhuman worlds of the environment and the animals like us who rely upon it.

This year’s ASA meeting was particularly close to my heart, as this panel consisted of the members of my beloved fiction writing group, Second Sundays. Our group unites, as you might have guessed, every second sunday of the month – across timezones and space – to read, revise, but most critically, revel in the wondrous worlds we’ve dreamt together! My fellow writers hail both from within academia and beyond the ivory tower – each of us originating from slightly different intersections of generations, genders, sexualities, races, and ability, yet united in a shared love of the craft of writing. This unity of vision, a shared desire to create better tomorrows, never fails to remind me that there’ll always be a second Sunday to look towards.