It’s that time of year—we’re carving pumpkins, installing ghosts in the front yard, and putting out the next Bikes in Space call for submissions. This time around, it’s for volume 13, which needed an appropriate theme. Fortunately, guest editor Summer Jewel Keown came up with one for the ages: Queer Halloween! Here’s the info: Please […]
Call for Submissions: Queer Halloween is Bikes in Space #13
Call for Submissions: Bikes in Space, ga...
Posted onWe’re seeking your feminist science fiction and fantasy stories for the 12th anthology in the Bikes in Space series of books! Please submit your original short fiction (in written or comics form) about bicycling from a feminist perspective. Stories should feature gardens, plants, or other products of photosynthesis. All three of these elements (bicycles, feminism, […]
Call for Submissions: Books and Bikes in...
Posted onIt’s time to start planning the tenth volume of the Bikes in Space feminist bicycle science fiction anthology! The theme for this one is books. Submissions are now open for original short fiction about bicycling and books, from a feminist perspective. These elements need to be intrinsic to the story. Send your most creative tales […]
Call for Submissions: Bicycles & Broomst...
Posted onI’m accepting submissions now for the witchcraft-themed ninth volume of the Bikes in Space series of feminist bicycle science fiction anthologies, scheduled to come out at the beginning of 2022. Working title: Bicycles & Broomsticks Please submit your original short fiction that combines themes of witchcraft and bicycling, through a feminist lens. Both witchiness and […]
Reviewing Car Sinister: a Science Fictio...
Posted onWant more feminist science fiction in the world? Back Dragon Bike on Kickstarter through Nov 1, 2019! Last summer, as I was preparing the Kickstarter project for Bikes Not Rockets, my colleague Jeremy Withers, a professor of bicycle science fiction at Iowa State (sadly, I’m not 100% sure that’s his official job title), sent me […]
Call for Submissions: Cats. And Bikes. I...
Posted onThe theme of the eighth annual Bikes in Spaces, the galaxy’s only series of feminist bicycle science fiction anthologies, is in the works! This volume’s theme is… cats. House cats. Ship cats. Lions. Strays. Anthropomorphic talking cats. Feline deities. Familiars. Wherever your imagination takes you, we’d love to read your story. Please send us your […]
Call for Submissions: Bikesexuality
Posted onBack in 2012, the seventh issue of Taking the Lane zine was called BikeSexuality. It sold out quickly, and has been out of print for years. Due to its popularity, we’ve decided to create a book along the same theme, currently scheduled to come out at the end of 2020. Here are the details: Call […]
Lessons from the Untokening
Posted onSome of the smartest and most effective leaders in bicycle advocacy founded The Untokening a few years ago. It’s a mobility justice movement that centers marginalized voices. The organization is all about reframing the narrative around transportation and to that end, they publish papers, host webinars, and have regular conferences. Mel Herrera-Baird attended one of […]
Call for submissions: Bikes in Space tra...
Posted onIt’s time: We’re requesting stories for the seventh volume of feminist bicycle science fiction series Bikes in Space. The fifth volume, Bikes Not Rockets, is funding on Kickstarter through August 8th. The sixth, with the working title Dragon Bike, is in edits. This seventh volume is scheduled to come out in early 2021. For the […]
Call for Submissions: True Trans Bike Re...
Posted onDeadline extension: The deadline has been extended to June 15th, 2018 so that folks who find out about this call for submissions via our Kickstarter project will have time to write something. Taking the Lane #15 is called True Trans Bike Rebel and guest edited by Lydia Rogue. They are looking for nonfiction writing about […]
Call for Submissions: Bikes in Space 6: ...
Posted onWith volume 5 in edits, it’s time to start planning the sixth volume of the Bikes in Space series of feminist bicycle science fiction, currently planned to come out in early 2020. The theme for this issue is: Dragons. Story length: 500 to 8,000 words (stories on the shorter end tend to appeal to me […]
Bike route mini-reviews: New Portland ed...
Posted onA while back I was reading a bunch of music writing and was inspired to review bike routes as though they were records. I realized the other day that at least one of them is badly out of date. Here’s one update and a new review.
A life rebuilt by bicycle (and a new Kic...
Posted onTaking the Lane #14 is coming out quite soon. But first, the Kickstarter. For this issue I asked people to send in submissions on the theme of “money and class.” It quickly became clear that other identity issues are inextricably important to this theme, and so the issue came to be called Bikequity and covers […]
Miss the Taking the Lane blog? Join me o...
Posted onIt’s been a while since I blogged here. Or anywhere. I miss it a bit, and some of you have let me know that you’d prefer I start up again. Well, I’m going to give it a try. But not here, for now—instead I’ll be posting a couple times a week on my Patreon page. […]