Gideon the Ninth Chapter 4. Harrow has a job for Gideon. Gideon is not into it.

Claire Beans (main gauche fist) and Han Koehle (main gauche additional sword) have a combined 25+ years of sword fighting and are excited to talk about the weapons systems of the empire and what they tell us about the world. Gideon's ambiguous status comes into play again. We get clues about animal agriculture and class differences in clothing on the Ninth.

Cover Image by Eerna.

Content Warning: brief discussion of injury related to abuse and combat, medical injustice, slavery, war, calories

Further Reading:

"Critical Theory for Political Theology 2.0: Refusal" (2022) Elisha Chi

"A million other factors killing us": Black women's health and refusing necropolitics-as-usual during COVID-19" (2023). Megan A. Carney, Debi Chess, Deyanira Ibarra, Kianna Dieudonne, and Michelle Rascon-Canales

A Feminist Theory of Refusal (2021) Bonnie Honig

The Art of Swordsmanship (1482) Johannes Lecküchner

"Hostess" (1951) Isaac Asimov

"Reconciling the Privilege of a Few with the Common Good: Sumptuary Laws in Medieval and Early Modern Europe" (2009) Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli

"Tetanus" (2025) Sawbones

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