Short and packs a punch.

Written by a Bengali Muslim woman, this satirical short story imagines a world where women are allowed to live to their fullest intellectual and economic potential. A sultan's wife travels to LadyLand, where the women run the world, for lack of a better term.

It was written in 1905.

This story was written, it was published, but more astonishingly, it survived. Science fiction is a testament not only to who we are, but who we can be. It allows us to shed our supposed rigid social barriers and imagine who we could be if we didn't have those constraints. Here is a woman of colour imagining a future in which other women of colour exist, contribute, are listened to, are an integral piece of society.

I... honestly really don't like when people say sexist / racist / homophobic comments or views were just 'products of their time'. Sure they were. But we had allies and we've had people who were at the forefront of all of that prejudice since the beginning and we will always have people like that.

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain is one such example.

Imagine reading this the year it was published. Feeling validated, feeling seen, feeling as if you could've come from LadyLand, as if you were suddenly made of star stuff, infinite in all your opportunities.

This story isn't just important 'for its time', it's important because it survived.