Tiptree Awards

I've had this tab about the 2018 Tiptree Awards open for like a month now. I thought it was interesting that of one winner ("They Will Dream In The Garden", Gabriela Damián Miravete) and eleven honor-listees I had heard of exactly one of them (and it was Dirty Computer). I guess the mainstream SF I read isn't doing cutting-edge work around gender? No, wait, I guess I did read one of the stories off of someone's 2018 recs list, "Me, Waiting, Hoping For Something More", which had a strong premise - two strong premises, actually - but as I recall didn't quite land for me somehow in how they came together and resolved, although reading it again I think I like it more. "Sandals Full of Rainwater", though, the other one available online, I have now read and is pretty great, so, recs for both, I guess. Anyways, I do wonder if the Tiptrees are deliberately trying to spotlight stuff that people aren't going to just stumble across in SH or Uncanny or Clarkesworld.