Recommended reading: Ibi Zoboi, "The Other Bodies in Space"
If you haven't already read it, don't miss speculative fiction/science fiction author Ibi Zoboi's wonderful guest post "The Other Bodies in Space" for The Rejectionist. Interesting thoughts on the Black/female/immigrant/feminist/displaced body and the redemptive power of writing.
"Their bodies made whole again by the stories...The magic of resilient bodies who’ve survived traumatic voyages across huge expanses of space and time."
http://www.therejectionist.com/2011/11/special-guest-post-ibi-zoboi-other.html