![]() “Flowing around this person’s shoulders and down onto the ground below was a cape made entirely of flowers, yellow and orange and blue and purple, so large and complex that it must have taken many days and many hands to stitch it all together. It is set in the late 1800s and is a wonderful story about strength and resilience and overcoming obstacles in a mans world. ![]() “I saw a handsome, dark-skinned person dressed in a top hat and tails like the mayor of Fairchild wore on festival days,” Ada says at their first meeting. “These VERY DANGEROUS CRIMINALS,” a wanted poster warns, “are known to harbor among them WITCHES and people of MIXED BREED, and to engage in UNNATURAL BEHAVIOR and DRESS.” They’re led by a magnetic figure called the Kid, who rejects male and female pronouns. She finally falls in with the Hole in the Wall Gang, a kind of sapphic iteration of the Jesse James gang. ![]() Knowing this, Ada keeps running - pursued by a sheriff who will never give up. ![]() ![]() Ada has heard tales of criminal men shooting their way across the Badlands, but the real outlaws in this society are women who are unwilling or unable to be mothers. ![]()
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