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The EscapeBod, Episode 994.

Magical Girl Antifa War Machine, by Esther Alter. Hello and welcome to Escape Pod, your weekly science fiction podcast. I'm Valerie Valdez, your host for this episode.

Our story this week is Magical Girl Antifa War Machine by Esther Alter. This is an EscapePod original.

Put your headphones on because this story is not suitable for work.

Content warnings include violence, death, mental health issues, global disaster, explicit

sex, consensual BDSM, war trauma, a brief mention of COVID, and a brief mention of rape.

Esther Alter is a trans anti-Zionist Jewish writer, game designer, and open-source software programmer.

Her fiction and poetry can be found in Deadlands, Baffling Magazine, Pereo, Reckoning,

and the anthology, Amplitudes, stories of queer and trans futurity. She lives in Massachusetts.

Our narrators are Hugo Jackson, Sarah Ely, Jess Lewis, and Joe Moran.

Hugo Jackson is an author and streamer on the east coast of the USA.

Born in the UK, they moved to the US to be with their partner

and have since published the first three novels of a five-book young adult fantasy series,

The Resonance Tetralogy, through inspired quill. They also stream semi-regularly on

Twitch at Pangolin Fox, and run a yearly charity stream on World Pengalind Day to raise money

for one of their favorite animals, the aforementioned Pangolin. Sarah Ely is a chaos spirit, first appeared in 2013 from the right cerebral hemisphere

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