![]() ![]() As they fly home, Barb consoles Axis, who struggles with their reassigned gender, considering that Axis' uncertainty and defiance of their assignment may reflect a "new queerness" as necessary as intentional instability is to combat aircraft. The story interlaces scenes from the war, in which Barb and the gunner Axis bomb a high school and escape from an enemy aircraft, with recollections of Barb's previous life as a woman, and reflections about her altered sexuality: the acts of flying, of controlled violence, are now also sexual acts between Barb and Axis. As a result, warfare is now part of Barb's gender role, much as wearing skirts would be part of a woman's. ![]() Army neuromedically reassigned Barb's gender identity to "attack helicopter" to make Barb a better helicopter pilot. The story is told from the perspective of Barb (a call sign, not "Barbara"), formerly called Seo Ji Hee. Some time in the near future, the United States is fighting a war against the "Pear Mesa Budget Committee", a local AI government that emerged from an environmental and medical catastrophe on the Gulf Coast. ![]() The helicopter flown by the protagonist is the fictional "AH-70 Apache Mystic", possibly a development of the AH-64 Apache shown here. ![]()
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