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Susan Ivanova

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| Names = Susan Ivanova
| Species = Human
| Occupation = Commander
| Works = [[Babylon 5]]
| Image = [[Image:B5_ivanova.jpg|125px]]
| Caption = Typically skeptical
}}

'''Commander Susan Ivanova''' is a human character from [[Babylon 5]] (played by Claudia Christian). She one of the longest-running and most important characters on the show, although for contract reasons she was not a regular part of the fifth and final season.

==Character biography==
Ivanova was the second-in-command of the station, tough, cynical, and witty. She was a Russian Jew with a hard family background, and weak telepathic powers. During the course of the show, she had two major relationships: the first with telepath [[Talia Winters]], and the second with Marcus Cole.

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Women and madness in SF

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==Madness, Gendered==

How much is madness a reasonable response to unreasonable conditions? e.g., Yellow Wallpaper; Friedan / Feminine Mystique. Patriarchy as literally maddening. Madness as depression; social conditions of women as more likely to suffer severe depression & attempt suicide; social outlets for men to channel emotions into rage (and social outlets for them to express rage; e.g., military; sports)

[[Rebecca West]], in ''Black Lamb and Grey Falcon'', defined different types of madness by gender:
: "Idiocy is the female defect: intent on their private lives, women follow their fate through a darkness deep as that cast by malformed cells in the brain. It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy: they are so obsessed by public affairs that they see the world as by moonlight, which shows the outlines of every object but not the details indicative of their nature."

=== Narrative Uses of Madness ===

The gendering of madness in fiction need not echo the gendering of madness in real life, but may serve a narrative purpose, or espouse a narrative tradition based on sexist ideology without questioning the basis of that ideology. It may be necessary to portray women as inherently diminished, to find psychological causes for women's social status, in order to avoid examining social factors as the cause of women's psychology, which would then suggest upsetting society as a means of curing the madness it can cause. Reactionary defenses against revolutionary avenues of thought: another way of blaming the victim for her condition.

''early notes & thoughts:''

* It is more likely that a writer will chose women characters to be "mad"? Use of madness to punish female social/sexual transgression?

* Feminine madness versus masculine madness: obsession (e.g., Shelley's Dr. Frankenstein; see [[mad scientist]]) treated almost as not madness at all, but a drive; murderous rage similarly treated as temporary, not a mental illness. The nervous maladies of women; hysteria; numerous representations of women recovering, always on the verge of slipping back into madness. Men's madness is strengthening; women's madness weakens them, languishing (relationship to multiple representations of women dying of tuberculosis, a disease which in literature shows a strange affinity for young attractive female characters).

Examples:

* [[Niki Sanders]] (''[[Heroes (TV series)]]''): Is madness for Niki weakness? Social punishment for an out-of-control / strong female character? Or, not ''intended'' as punishment, but a prerequisite for a female character's superhuman abilities that she find them out of her control? Can she integrate? Is Jessica actually another character, rather than a form of mental illness? ([[SF]]'s ability to make metaphors or psychic phenomena actual, literal phenomena within the story.)

* ''[[Firefly (TV series)]]''/''[[Serenity (film)]]'': [[River Tam|River]]'s madness vs. her particular abilities.

* [[Drusilla (vampire)|Drusilla]], of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' and ''[[Angel (TV series)]]'': an insane, prophetic female vampire.

* ''[[Millennium (TV series)]]'': Frank Black & Lara Means, their parallel journeys into the darkness of the human mind and pre-millennial apocalyptic lore.

* ''[[The X-Files]]'': Mulder's obsessions & frequent suggestions that he's losing it (general obsession & commentary; Anasazi - drugged; Demons - mysterious neural events; Unusual Suspects - drugged & raving; Folie a Deux - hospitalized; Biogenesis, Sixth Extinction, Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati - driven mad by visions;
* "[[The X-Files]]": various instances of madness & psychiatric hospitals; esp b/c confusion b/w people mad or not mad: Pilot (M&F characters w/ mental/brain trauma), Deep Throat (men returned home OCD, not normal), '''[[Eve (X-Files episode)|Eve]]''', Duane Barry (man starts in hospital), Aubrey (woman ends up in hospital); Grotesque (cop driven into insanity; final scene in psych hosp); Patient X etc ([[Cassandra Spender]] in & out of mental hospitals); "Hungry" (male monster seeking therapy); "[[Millennium (X-Files episode)|Millennium]]" (Frank Black in psych hospital;
* "[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]" - s6 ep "Normal Again" when buffy may be in mental hospital ... S3 "Earshot" when Buffy being driven mind by ability to read thoughts ... s5 "Listening to Fear" psych hospital, and Joyce is incapacitated / temporarily insane (Alzheimer's like) because of treatments for cancer;
* "[[Heroes (TV series)]]" - character incapacitated by early ability to read thoughts
* "[[Angel (TV series)]] -s5 episode with an insane Slayer
* telepathy as incapacitating or driving people crazy - a staple. X-Men (did Professor X ever have this problem? [[Jean Grey|Jean]] and others did), X-Files (Mulder), Heroes, [[Buffy Summers|Buffy]] in the episode "[[Earshot (Buffy episode)|Earshot]]" ...

==SF and other art forms==

''early notes & thoughts:''

* SF as always offers opportunities to explore different forms of madness and different social treatments for madness. (See Piercy/WOTEOT.)

* Madness long history in non-SF and para-SF genres; see, e.g., Lucia di Lammermoor (opera); BrontÃ«'s ''Jane Eyre'' (early gothic / romance) and feminist re-take on madness told from Rochester's wife's perspective (Jean Rhys ''Wide Sargasso Sea''). Madness haunts gothic literature from ''Jane Eyre'' onward; Yellow Wallpaper in partial response to that.

* Madness or the possibility of madness is also a common gambit in SF: Characters confronted by the fantastic or the alien wonder whether what they are experiencing is real, or whether they are mad. Sometimes the audience wonders also, creating a number of works which may, or may not, have fantastic elements.

==List of works==
* [[Lois McMaster Bujold]] - ''[[The Curse of Chalion]]'' and ''[[Paladin of Souls]]''
* [[Charlotte Perkins Gilman]] - "[[The Yellow Wallpaper]]"
* [[Gwyneth Jones]] - ''[[Life (novel)|Life]]'' - A major character has a mental / nervous breakdown for some weeks.
* [[Justine Larbalestier]] - "Magic or Madness Trilogy" - A major character has a mental breakdown; madness hangs over many characters.
* [[Norma Marden]] - [[An Eye for Dark Places]] (1993)
* [[Marge Piercy]] - ''[[Woman on the Edge of Time]]'' (in "utopian" future society it is discussed that one character had a breakdown; mental breakdowns are not treated negatively. This is in contrast with treatment of protagonist in modern-day US society, where diagnosis is affected by racism and sexism, and treatment is inhumane and stigmatizing.)
* [[Raccoona Sheldon]] - "[[Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled of Light!]]"
* [[Sarah Waters]] - ''[[Affinity (novel)|Affinity]]'' (Are there psychics or is she mad?)
* Ophelia / Shakespeare
* "[[Millennium (TV series)]]" episode; see [[Lara Means]]; see also [[Frank Black]] as comparatively rare example of male protagonist experiencing madness or insanity
* ''[[Heroes (TV series)]]'' - character [[Niki Sanders]] in season 1
* [[Jean Grey]] in X-Men 3 movie
* ''[[Jane Eyre]]'' by [[Charlotte BrontÃ«]]
* ''[[Point Pleasant]]'' - [[Meg Boyd]], Judy's mother, is receiving psychic visions and is therefore insane, or thinks she is insane, or is thought to be insane, or all of the above. Jesse's mother Sarah is semi-insane: obsessively Christian.

==suggestions & possibilities==

* "A Very Little Madness Goes a Long Way" by M. Rickert

==See also==
* [[Feminist rage]]
* [[Women crazed by power]]
* [http://blogs.feministsf.net/?p=129 Jean Grey, meet Jane Eyre] (therem 2/21 feminist sf blog)

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Rosel George Brown

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Born March 15, 1926. Died Nov. 26, 1967.

==Bibliography==
* ''[[Sibyl Sue Blue]]'' (1966)

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Antiracism

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'''Antiracism''' is, broadly, opposition to [[racism]], and specifically, a strain of activism and analysis within broader movements for justice and equality.

As a North American social activist identity, "antiracist" implies efforts to be conscious of the multifarious ways in which race operates in society, its intersections with other areas of oppression, and a strong effort to eliminate the effects of race in society. Antiracism is closely related to other [[critical]] theoretical and activist movements such as the [[race treason]] movement, named after the ethnic slur attached to white people who worked with or helped people of color and popularized by the journal ''Race Traitor''); [[critical race theory]], a critical legal studies movement that seeks to closely examine the philosophical and legal significance of "race", and its impacts on the lives of individuals; and "critical whiteness studies", which take a critical, postcolonialist, and gender studies approach to race by critically examining the category, from the perspective not just of the oppressed class but of the oppressor class.

==Further reading==
* ''Memoirs of a Race Traitor'' by [[Mab Segrest]]
* [http://allywork.solidaritydesign.net/erase-racism-carnival Erase Racism Carnival]

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Cassandra Spender

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{{Femchar
| Names = Cassandra Spender
| Species = Homo sapiens; eventual alien hybrid
| Occupation = Madwoman; New Age UFO speaker
| Works = [[The X-Files]]
| Image =
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'''Cassandra Spender''' is a character (portrayed by Veronica Cartwright, who is also known from her roles in "[[The Birds]]" (1963); "[[Invasion of the Body Snatchers]]" (1979); "[[Alien]]" (1979); "[[The Witches of Eastwick]]" (1987); etc.) from seasons 6 and 7 of ''[[The X-Files]]''. She was originally presented as a character who was possibly mad, and certainly had been in and out of mental hospitals for much of her adult life. ''See [[women and madness]].''

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Nnedi Okorafor

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'''[http://www2.uic.edu/~nokora1/ Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu]''' is an American writer, academic and journalist. She has won several awards for her short stories and her other works.

She attended [[Wiscon 30]], where she was a panelist on the [[Science Fiction from the (so-called) Third World (WisCon 30 Panel)|Science Fiction from the (so-called) Third World]] panel. She is a Clarion East graduate (2001).

== Bibliography ==
''This bibliography is only partial and needs to be completed''

===Novels===
* ''[[Zahrah the Windseeker]]'' ([[2005]])
* ''[[The Shadow Speaker]]'' or ''Ejii the Shadow Speaker'' ([[2007]])

=== Short Fiction ===
* "The Magical Negro", in [[Dark Matter II: Reading the Bones|Dark Matter II]] ([[2004]])
* "When Scarabs Multiply", in [[ So Long Been Dreaming: Post Colonial Science Fiction|So Long Been Dreaming]] ([[2004]])

=== Plays ===
* ''Growin' Up'' ([[2000]])
* ''Full Moon'' ([[2005]])

=== Nonfiction ===
* "Stephen King's Super Duper Magical Negroes" ([http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20041025/kinga.shtml Full text online])

== External Links ==
* [http://www2.uic.edu/~nokora1/index.html Nnedimma -- Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu's official website]

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Voices (novel)

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Novel by [[Ursula K. Le Guin]].

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Drabble

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::''For other uses, see [[Drabble (disambiguation)]].''

A story consisting of '''exactly 100 words'''.

The format was used especially in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[fandom]], from the 1990s onward.

When the name was adopted by other fandoms, ignorant fans overlooked the length requirement, leading to a wide misuse of the term.

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:Double-drabble: 200-word story
:Half-drabble: 50-word story

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Carol Emshwiller

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'''Carol Emshwiller''' ([http://www.sfwa.org/members/emshwiller/ website]) is a writer.

== Bibliography ==

=== Novels ===
* ''[[Carmen Dog]]'' ([[1988]]) (Women's Press: England, 1988; Mercury Press, 1990. Shortlisted for retrospective [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award]].)
* ''[[The Mount]]'' ([[2002]]) ([[Small Beer Press]])
* ''[[Mister Boots]]'' ([[2005]] fantasy novel)
* ''[[The Secret City]]'' ([[2007]]) [[Tachyon Publications]]

'''Ledoyt series'''
* ''[[Ledoyt]]'' ([[1995]])
* ''[[Leaping Man Hill]]'' ([[1999]])
* ''[[The Secret City]]'' (2007)

=== Story Collections ===
* ''[[Joy In Our Cause]]'' ([[1974]]) (Harper & Row, 1975; Women's Press, England)
* ''[[Verging on the Pertinent]]'' ([[1989]])
* ''[[The Start of the End of It All]]'' ([[1990]) (winner of [[World Fantasy Award]], Best Collection.) (Mercury House, San Francisco, 1990)
* ''[[Report to the Men's Club and Other Stories]]'' ([[2002]]
* ''[[I Live With You]] [[2005]]

===Short fiction===
* "The Victim" (1955) in ''Smashing Detective,'' Vol. 4, No. 2
* "This Thing Called Love" (1955) in ''Future Science Fiction,'' No. 28
* "Love Me Again" (1956) in ''Science Fiction Quarterly,'' Vol.4, No. 2,
* "Bingo and Bongo" (1956) in ''Future Science Fiction,'' No. 31, Winter 56-57
* "The Piece Thing" (1956) in ''Science Fiction Quarterly,'' Vol. 4, No.3
* "Nightmare Call" (1957) in ''Future Science Fiction,'' No. 32
* "The Coming" (1957) in ''Fantasy & Science Fiction,'' Vol. 12, No. 5
* "You'll Feel Better" (1957) in ''Fantasy & Science Fiction,'' Vol. 13, No. 1
* "Hands" (1957) in ''Double-Action Detective,'' No.7
* "Two-Step For Six Legs" (1957) in ''Science Fiction Quarterly,'' Vol. 5, No. 2
* "Murray Is For Murder" (1957) in ''Fast Action Detective and Mystery," Vol. 5, No. 5
* "Hunting Machine" (1957) in ''Original Science Fiction Stories,'' Vol. 7, No. 6
* "Pelt" (1958) in ''Fantasy & Science Fiction,'' Vol. 15, No. 5
* "Baby" (1958) in ''Fantasy & Science Fiction, Vol. 14, No 2"
* "Idol's Eye" (1958) in ''Future Science Fiction,'' No. 35
* "Day At The Beach" (1958) in ''Fantasy & Science Fiction,'' Vol. 17, No, 2
* "Puritan Planet" (1960) in ''Original Science Fiction Stories,'' Vol. 10, No 6
* "Adapted" (1961) in ''Fantasy & Science Fiction,'' Vol. 20, No. 3
* "But Soft, What Light..." (1966) in ''Fantasy & Science Fiction,'' Vol. 30, No. 4
* "Chicken Icarus" ("A Dream of Flying") (1966) in ''Cavalier''
* "Krashaw, Dog, and Boats," (1967) in ''City Sampler,'' ed. [[Marilyn Hacker]] and [[Samuel R. Delany]
* ""Eohippus" (1967) in ''Transatlantic Review,'' Vol. 24
* "Sex and/or Mr. Morrison" (1967) in ''[[Dangerous Visions]],'' [[Harlan Ellison]], ed. (critique by L. Timmel Duchamp at link below)
* "Lib" (1968) in ''New Worlds,'' March '68*
* "Animal" (1968) in ''Orbit 4,'' ed. Damon Knight
* "Methapyrilene Hydrochloride Sometimes Helps" (1968) in ''New Worlds'' Jul ’68
* "White Dove" (1969) in ''New Worlds,'' No. 188
* "I Love You" (1969) in ''Epoch,'' Vol. xix, No. 1
* "Debut," (1970) in ''Orbit 6,'' ed. Damon Knight
* "Woman Waiting" (1970) in ''Orbit 7,'' ed. Damon Knight
* "The Institute," (1970) in ''Alchemy & Academe,'' ed. [[Anne McCaffrey]]
* "Peninsula" (1970) in ''Spectrum/The Richmond Review'' Vol. 6, No. 1 (critique by L. Timmel Duchamp at link below)
* "The Queen Of Sleep" (1970) in ''New Directions,'' Vol. 22
* "A Possible Episode In The Picaresque Adventures Of Mr. J.H.B. Monstrosee" (1971) in ''Quark/2,'' ed. Samuel R. Delany and Marilyn Hacker
* "Yes, Virginia" (1971) in ''Transatlantic Review,'' Vol. 39
* "Lib" (1971) in ''Triquarterly,'' No. 20
* "Al" (1972) in ''Orbit 10,'' ed. Damon Knight
* "The Childhood of the Human Hero" (1973) in ''Showcase.'' ed. Roger Elwood
* "Strangers" (1973) in ''Bad Moon Rising,'' ed. Thomas M. Disch
* "To The Association" (1974), first published in ''Joy In Our Cause''
* "Autobiography" (1974), first published in ''Joy In Our Cause''
* "Destinations, Premonitions and The Nature Of Anxiety" (1974), first published in ''Joy In Our Cause''
* "Biography Of An Uncircumcised Man" (1974), first published in ''Joy In Our Cause''
* "Dog Is Dead" (1974), first published in ''Joy In Our Cause''
* "Maybe Another Long March Across China, 80,000 Strong" (1974), first published in ''Joy In Our Cause''
* "Joy In Our Cause" (1975) in ''Bitches and Sad Ladies,'' ed. Pat Rotter
* "Thanne Longen Folk To Goen On Pilgrimages" (1977) in ''The Little Magazine,'' Vol. 11, No. 2
* "One Part Of The Self Is Always Tall and Dark" (1977) in ''Confrontation,'' No. 14
* "Escape Is No Accident" (1977) ''The American Tricentennial,'' ed. Edward Bryant
* "Expecting Sunshine and Getting It" (1978) in ''Croton Review,'' Vol. 1, No. 1
* "Omens" (1980) in [[Edges,]] ed. [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] and [[Virginia Kidd]]
* "Slowly Bumbling In The Void" (1981) in ''New Directions 42''
* "The Start of the End of the World" (1981) in ''Universe 11,'' ed. [[Terry Carr]]; reprinted in ''[[The Norton Book of Science Fiction,]]'' ed. Ursula K. Le Guin and [[Brian Attebery]])
* "The Futility Of Fixed Positions" (1982) in ''Portland Review,'' Vol. 28, No. 2
* "Queen Kong" (1982) in ''13th Moon,'' Vol. vi, Nos. 1-2
* "Mental Health and Its Alternative" (1983) in ''Confrontation,'' Nos. 25-26
* "Not Burning" (1983) in ''Croton Review,'' No. 6
* "Verging On The Pertinent" (1984) in ''13th Moon,'' Vol. vii, Nos. 1-2
* "Eclipse," The Little Magazine, Vol. 15, No. 2, 1986
* "Clerestory" (1986) in ''Croton Review,'' No. 9
* "Yukon" (1986) in ''Triquarterly,'' No. 67, reprinted in Pushcart Prize Anthology (GET CORRECT NAME) #12
* "If Not Forever, When?" (1987) in ''Psycritic,'' Vol. 2, No. 2
* "The Secret Library Of Stone" (1987) in ''Omni''
* "Fledged" (1988) in ''Omni"
* "Being Mysterious Strangers From Distant Lands" (1988) in ''Voice International Literary Supplement,'' No. 2
* "Living At The Center" (1989) in ''Ice River," No. 4
* "Secrets Of The Native Tongue," (1989) in ''Ascent/Assent'' (Prize Story For 1989)
* "Looking Down" (1990) in ''Omni''
* "Venus Rising" (1992) chapbook from [[Edgewood Press]]; reprinted in ''[[Flying Cups and Saucers]]'', 1998) Short-listed for the 1992 [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award]].
* "Mrs. Jones" (1993) in ''Omni''
* "Modillion" (1994) in ''Green Mountain Review,'' Spring/Summer 1994
* "After Shock" (1995) in ''Century Magazine,'' No. 3
* "A Is For Abel, B Is For Bird" (1998) in ''Crank,'' No. 8
* "Acceptance Speech" (1999) in ''Fantasy & Science Fiction''
* "Foster Mother" (2001) in ''Fantasy & Science Fiction''
* "The Project" (2001) in ''Fantasy & Science Fiction''
* "Creature" in ''Fantasy & Science Fiction''
* "Overlooking" (2002) in ''[[The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest]]'', ed. [[Ellen Datlow]] & [[Terri Windling]]
* "Water Master" (2002) scifi.com (full text at link below)
* "Josephine" (2002) scifi.com (full text at link below)
* "Grandma" (2002) in ''Fantasy & Science Fiction'' (author's website says this story is available on fictionwise, but the information may be out of date)
* "The Paganini Of Jacob's Gully" (2002) first published in ''Report to the Men's Club''
* "Desert Child In Book" (2002) first published in ''Report to the Men's Club''
* "Nose" (2002) first published in ''Report to the Men's Club''
* "It Comes From Deep Inside" (2002) first published in ''Report to the Men's Club''
* "After All" (2002) first published in ''Report to the Men's Club''
* "The Doctor" (2002) in ''Polyphony #1"
* "Prince of Mules" (2002) in ''Leviathan''
* "Lightning" (2003) in ''Alchemy'' No. 1
* "Coo People" (2003) in ''Polyphony #2''
* "Repository" (2003) in ''Fantasy & Science Fiction''
* "Boys" (2003) scifi.com, , short listed for the [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award]], reprinted in ''[[The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1]]'' ed. [[Karen Joy Fowler]], [[Pat Murphy]], [[Debbie Notkin]], and [[Jeffrey D. Smith]]
* "The General" (2003) excerpted in in ''McSweeney's'' #10
* "Gods and Three Wishes" (2003) in [[Trampoline]], ed. [[Kelly Link]]
* "On Display Among The Lesser" (2004) scifi.com (full text at link below)
* "My General" (2004) in ''Argosy'' #2
* "Gliders Though They Be" 2004, scifi.com (full text at link below)
* "The Library" (2004) in ''Fantasy & Science Fiction''
* "All Of Us Can Almost..." (2004) scifi.com, short listed for the [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award]], reprinted in ''[[The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2]]'' ed. [[Karen Joy Fowler]], [[Pat Murphy]], [[Debbie Notkin]], and [[Jeffrey D. Smith]]
* "The Assassin Or Being The Loved One" (2005), first published in ''I Live With You''
* "I Live With " (2005) in ''Fantasy & Science Fiction,'' reprinted in ''I Live With You''
* "The Being Of It All" (2005) scifi.com (full text at link below)
* "Killers" (2006) in ''Fantasy & Science Fiction,''reprinted in in ''Wastelands,'' ed. John Joseph Adams
* "World Of No Return" (2005) in ''Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine''
* "The Seducers" (2006) in ''Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine''
* "Quill" (2006) in ''Firebirds Rising,'' ed. [[Sharyn November]]
* "Such A Woman" (2006) in ''[[Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet]]''
* "God Clown" (2007) in ''[[Coyote Road]]'', ed. Ellen Datlow, July 2007
* "At Sixes and Sevens" (2007) in ''Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine''
* "Master Of The Road To Nowhere" (2008) in ''Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine''
* "Wilmer Or Wesley" (2008?) in ''Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine''
* "The Meaning Of The Fields," (2008?) in ''Lalitamba''
* "The Abominable Child's Tale" (2008?) in ''Beastly Bride,'' ed. Ellen Datlow
* "The Dignity He's Due," (2008?) in ''Firebirds 3,'' ed. Sharyn November
* "All Washed Up While Looking For A Better World" (2008?) in ''The Del Rey Book of Fantasy & Science Fiction,'' ed. Ellen Datlow

===Video scripts===

* "Pilobolus and Joan," video narration, aired WNET/13, 1974, film by Ed Emshwiller based on "Metamorphosis" by Carol Emshwiller, script also by Carol Emshwiller
* "Family Focus" (1977) video narration, aired WNET/13, 1977

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Category:Xena studies

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FSFblog communication guidelines

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This is a working document. It is intended to hone and revise feminist guidelines for effective discussion, debate, and argument.

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==Status==

* Right now this is both redundant and inconsistent! But it needs to be rewritten because some people don't know how to argue.

== Caveat ==

Politeness and good communication and civility and respectfulness all depend on political circumstances. The goal of feminism is not politeness, good communication, civility, or respectfulness, but women's liberation from political, social and economic oppression.

Because the ''[[incumbent]]s'' dictate the nature of civility, there is no such thing as a polite revolution.

This Wiki cannot function as a feminist tool if it is divorced from its cause and wedded to abstacted views of interpersonal relations. Therefore, the guidelines below must '''always''' be considered in a political context.

==Sources==

* The WisCon moderators' rules might be of use.
* Something to be gleaned from [http://roar-of-comics.blogspot.com/2006/06/flame-on.html this analysis] of weird & inappropriate communications on the part of commenter?
* http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2005/12/02/how-not-to-be-insane-when-accused-of-racism/
* http://coffeeandink.livejournal.com/607897.html
* http://grannyvibe.blogspot.com/2006/07/defensiveness.html Granny Gets a Vibrator: "Defensiveness" (2006 July 30)
* http://community.livejournal.com/feminist/1362470.html 12 Helpful Suggestions for Men Regarding Conduct in Feminist Spaces
* Susan Herring, [http://rkcsi.indiana.edu/archive/CSI/WP/WP02-03B.html Managing Trolling in a Feminist Forum]

==Draft==

'''Communications 101: How to Argue Effectively & Respectfully''' (title)

Communication styles, like everything else, is a feminist issue. Moreover, having clear, respectful communications makes discussions effective & useful for readers and participants alike. So, here are a few tips & no-nos: (preamble)

Guidelines - need to be organized, clarified, rationalized as a system.

* Respond to the substance of the argument, not the speaker's identity and not the speaker's style.

* But if the speaker's identity or style are relevant to a meta-discussion then say so.

* Be aware when you are leaving the original topic and moving into meta-discussion / processing / pissing wars. Sometimes this is good: Seeing sexism or racism in a discussion and addressing it right then, head-on. But sometimes it's bad: Getting into pointless back-and-forth pissing wars about increasingly irrelevant minutiae, misunderstandings, what was said, etc.

* If you see yourself going meta, you should understand why you want to, very clearly. And before posting you should make a conscious decision that it is appropriate; it will further the discussion; it is in keeping with feminist principles of full & effective communications for all.

* Repeat: Self-awareness. Not knee-jerk responses. Anger is good, healthy, strong. Pissiness is annoying. If you have a righteous anger over a wrong that is being committed, express it! Voice your anger. Use strong language if you like or it's appropriate.

* Respect other people. Saying that a statement, an argument, or a worldview is fucked-up or sexist or racist is different from saying that someone is fucked-up or sexist or racist. Attempting to classify someone else is disrespectful to them.

* If someone is being disrespectful then don't tolerate it.

* Engaging in a pissing match with someone who is being disrespectful is not interesting to the rest of the world. Helping them figure out what they're doing wrong is useful. Pointing out to the forum moderators that they are inappropriate is useful.

* Don't engage in pissing wars.

** If your only response is basically "You're a --" or "No I'm not!" then you're not adding anything of substance to the discussion. Are you characterizing / defending / explaining your own statements, or are you talking about the subject of discussion and adding to it?

** If you feel the need to characterize / defend / explain your own statements, then you better understand why they were mischaracterized / attacked / misunderstood. That means understanding how you miscommunicated to begin with.

** If your response is directed to one person only then it's probably not interesting to everyone else even if you want them to hear it. Think about why you want to respond publicly to the comment. Is it because you feel insulted or aggrieved?

** Consider whether your response is going to add anything to the discussion, or just encourage the other person to come back with a "yes you are!"? Look down the long path of the discussion: Is it heading into a place where a reader will learn something?

* A sense of humor is good.

* A sense of humor is good. But if you're talking only sarcastically then there's a good chance you're over-simplifying the other position or engaging in strawman argument.

** If you're using sarcasm are you also adding something substantive to the debate?

* Explain what your point applies to. If your point is about the overall sense or tone then say so. If you agree with part of an argument but disagree with another part, then specify the points of disagreement as well as agreement, before detailing the points of disagreement.

* Effective communicators are generally not just adversarial: They seek to understand what the other person is saying, and why, and seek for the common ground on which there might be legitimate dispute.

* Generally, people represent themselves. They don't represent all of a fandom. They don't represent everyone else in a discussion group. They don't represent everyone in their gender, their ideology, their race, their class, their nationality. Don't try to speak for others and don't assign an individual's statements to other members of a group and don't assign other group members' statements to an individual.

** Don't start talking about "we" think this or "we" said this -- because who is the "we" anyway? And can you really accurately sum them up?

** And if you start out with "we" or "I" don't switch mid-way through.

* Don't mischaracterize what other people say: Don't put words in their mouths, don't suggest that they said something they didn't, don't reduce the complexity of their argument.

* If someone else is mischaracterizing your argument, do call them on it. But don't just call them on it. You should understand and be able to justify your explanation.

==Alternate [shorter, more general] Draft==

:1. Read carefully before you respond to a post or comment. Are you sure you understand what the other person is saying? Are you reading anything into the post or comment that isn’t there? Are you confusing the commenter with someone else in another thread or discussion?
:2. Think before you comment. Are you saying what you mean? Are you saying it clearly? Does your tone match what you’re trying to say? Are you implying anything you don’t want to imply? Are you using language that could be offensive or inflammatory? Remember, no one can hear your tone of voice or see your body language.
:3. Make your comments meaningful. If you disagree with someone, explain why. Name-calling is boring and pointless.
:4. Remember the difference between criticism of a person’s work and criticism of the person. Criticism, as in “literary criticism,” is analysis, not attack. Critically discussing gender in an author’s work is not the same as accusing the author of being a sexist. Pointing out concerns about a work isn’t the same as calling for that work to be banned. Bear this in mind both when you are criticizing and when you feel criticized.
:5. Try to keep to the original topic. If there’s a topic you’d like to see discussed, put it on your own blog and point to it in the comments, or write to one of us and suggest it. Or take the conversation to email.
:6. Take responsibility for keeping discussion civil. Treat others respectfully, even (especially!) if you disagree. Try to be constructive. If a conversation is growing heated, think about what you can to do calm things down. Apologize if you make a mistake.
:7. If you don’t understand the conversation, educate yourself. We have lots of resources about feminism and feminist sf. Please make use of them! They can help you strengthen and refine your own positions.

--[[User:Janet Lafler|JL]]

==warn once then ban (Dec 2006)==
I agree with Janet's suggestions. --[[User:Liz Henry|Liz Henry]] 21:03, 19 December 2006 (PST)

Here is a suggested "warn once, then ban" policy to establish norms of respectful communication:

* No cussing people out directly
* No name-calling
* No racist epithets
* No criticising the person not the ideas in their writing

When this is violated by a blog author or commenter then any blog author can call it to a vote. We vote on the warning and in a second instance vote on a ban (or temporary suspension).

I would like to encourage openness and debate on the list. Maybe we can agree on this as a minimal group standard for responsibility in behavior.

Towards that end I propose voting first on whether to implement this policy or one like it.

--[[User:Liz Henry|Liz Henry]] 21:02, 19 December 2006 (PST)

===votes & short descriptions===

* I '''VOTE YES''' to implement this one or one like it --[[User:Lquilter|LQ]] 06:55, 20 December 2006 (PST)
* I also '''VOTE YES'''. --[[User:JLeland|Therem]] 15:38, 20 December 2006 (PST)
* I "VOTE YES" -- [[User:Debbie]], 21 December 2006
* Yes. [[User:Janet Lafler]], 23 December 2006

* I think this is insane. Rules are not a substitute for power. --[[User:Ide Cyan|Ide Cyan]] 23:31, 29 January 2007 (PST)

===longer discussions===

* Honestly I like all of these. We do need a statement of First Principles (FPs) by which we all operate, I think, so that none of us feel undue frustration. Then, I think there can be different views of the First Principles; different interpretations and applications and spellings out and case studies. So the other versions can also exist and people can be referred to any of them. The FPs are the basic groundrules for process under which we operate. (A fractal system where you can spend more and more time thinking about smaller and smaller pieces, because there's not enough of that on the Internet already. <g>) --[[User:Lquilter|LQ]] 06:55, 20 December 2006 (PST)
* Oh - I think one thing that might be good would be if we bloggers each filled in the biography, or wrote a "page" about ourselves; I can link to that for the person's name. We can each explain our take on feminism, SF, communications styles, etc. That doesn't get out of the FPs, but allows us to implement our own interpretations. --[[User:Lquilter|LQ]] 06:55, 20 December 2006 (PST)
:* Laura, where would you have us put these biographies? -- Debbie
::* Well there are two possible places. One -- on the blog when you log in, if you go to "Users", your profile information contains a space for "About yourself". I have to figure out how to enable that to show up. The second option is to write a "page" about yourself -- when you log in, if you go to "Write" the default is "write post", but there is also an option (at the top, under "write") for "write page"; then you can write something. Probably the "page" is better for longer biographies. People could include links to their other works, their mantras, whatever. --[[User:Lquilter|LQ]] 19:57, 21 December 2006 (PST)
* While I do support the point about "civility" being a tool that those in power can use to silence or shame those out of power, at the same time, I know there are people who cannot function in a space that does not offer some protections. I very much hope that our guidelines will evolve and reshape themselves over time as our community grows more robust, and I also favor starting with ones like these. [Debbie]
* It looks to me like the only way to do this is to have a very minimal basic standard for behavior, and allow individual bloggers to set their own standards. Given the discussion we've had so far, I think it will be impossible to institute what some people feel are minimal protections without making others feel unduly restrained. Maybe we should just accept this. But if we're going to do things this way, we all need to be as clear as possible about it -- we can't ask people to abide by a standard if they don't know what the standard is. [Janet]
* As to the wording of the actual guidelines, I generally prefer to see instructions/directives stated in positive terms ("do this") rather than negatives ("don't do this"); On the other hand, "no namecalling" is clear and concise, and I can't think of a better way of wording it. [Janet]
* Did we drop the idea of having a registration process? If people could register and still use a pseudonym, are people comfortable with that? My suggestion (way back when we started this discussion) of bringing back registration was mainly to make sure that users were required to read and sign communication guidelines, presuming we can ever agree on what those should be.... [Janet]
:* We had a registration process, took it off, then added it again to combat spam, I believe. People can register with pseudonyms. ... These rules of course apply to us as well as to potential commenters. --[[User:Lquilter|LQ]] 13:34, 25 December 2006 (PST)

* Who has the power to ban bloggers or commenters? How does this banning process function? (Is the web interface more extensive for those with administrative privileges? Does the ban block a poster's registered username, e-mail, or IP address? Or are there other tools?) By what means can it be appealed? If there is a referendum on someone's behaviour when it contradicts the rules, where does the voting take place, who tallies it, and who decides who gets to carry out the decisions? How many votes amount to a group decision, and what about absentees? '''Where do the rules and the positions of individuals who make, enact and fall under those rules interact politically?''' --[[User:Ide Cyan|Ide Cyan]] 23:48, 29 January 2007 (PST)

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Carl Brandon Society Awards Ceremony (2006)

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''Original transcript by Laura Quilter -- please fill in, correct, amend as needed''

... [[Samuel R. Delany]] ... owe to him... for increasing representation of ... con/com responded and has been an ally ever since ... visit our web page at [http://carlbrandon.org carlbrandon.org] or talk to any of the people you see standing on the stage right now.

the people standing on thes tage. we could tell you our names but we'd rather invite you all of you to become the carl brandon society. pariticipation is not limited to people of color. you can nominate ... we'll do them again next year. ... make a donation to carl brandon ... or octavia butler memorial scholarship ...

membership forms are on program leaflet we've handed out to you

tonight we're here to society the first carl brandon society literary awards ... [[Parallax Award]] ... recipient of each award receives a check for a thousand dollars and an award.

victor: of course we couldn't let this occasion go by w/out mentioning octavia e. butler who left us so unexpectedly this february. she was a friend to the cbs and we miss her terribly. when we decided to name the cb kindred award we were of course inspired in part by miss butler's life and work. we also saw how the word kindred spoke to the fact that we are all related as human beings aside from consideraitons of race and ethnicity. in that spirit the cb kindred award is open to everyone regardless or race or background.

i'm going to name members of each jury. some of those people are here w/ us today and i'll ask those people to identify thsemvels when i call their name.

[jury list ... steven barnes ... jennifer stevenson ...]

the jurors for the cbs kindred award were jewelle gomez, ian k. hageman, ursula k. le guin, debbie notkin, and --

many young adult novels were nominated ... and i would like to read you now the hosrtlist for the parallax award.

...

[[Ian Hagemann]]: not that i'm shy really the kindred award had a shorter short list and a longer long list. which didn't surprise me b/c the lack of sf about race is part of why we need the award. so i'm going to read the shortlist for this award. many were also on shortlist for parallax.

... invite juror chairs up to stage ...

selected walter moseley's 47 as this year's winner
nalo reading award ... i really appreciate this award, especially for 47 which is a work that means a lot to me ... thank everyone for me ...

[[Debbie Notkin]]: it is 1969 and ruba has moved from mississippi to haiti to live w/ her grandmother jones ... grandmother jones wants her to go to church, quit using those french words, wear starched white dresses ... if she doesn't obey, eula faces simmering disapproval from her grandmother ... when the biggest hurricane in memory barrels toward the mississippi coast ... must use her power ... the jury of the 2005 cbs kindred award for spec fiction which examines issues of race & ethnicity has selected the novel stormwatch by susan vaught as this year's winner.

we're extremely fortunate that susan turned her life around on a dime to be here tonight to accept this award. susan.

(? purty ?). pretty and beautiful. i'm going to put it back in the box before i drop it.

i've been fortunate in that stormwitch was nominated for several awards this year and of all the awards ... this one means ... basically i had a very difficult part of my childhood, and a librarian stuck some books in my hand ... the tripods ... i can honestly tell you from that point forward that science fiction and fantasy saved my flife ... writing fantasy & science fiction saved my life again ... allowed me to do something nthat i couldn't otherwise do which is to honor some of the gods of my childhood who died ... andre norton and octavia butler ... f&sf can save lives ... ... great pleasure to sign this check ... back to octavia butler scholarship

ian: umm. laughter. pause. i hate to follow something like that. pause. but i'm sure if [[Octavia E. Butler|Octavia]], if she could hear us would be deeply moved by that.

we in the cbs would like to especially take this time to thank pam noles who took on the dual role of awards adminsitrator and jury wrangler for both of the juries and did an amazing thorough & patient job with both of those roles. applause. we'd also like to thank we'd also like to especially thank all of the jrurors for all of the hard work it took to go thru & come up with and give this award out especially on the timeline we were walking on. and also like to thank wiscon nfor hosting our first awards ceremony. we were born at wiscon and are especially glad to be back her efor first awards. especially like to thank tiptree motherboard ... naming award, short list, long list, having fun along the way ... party tonight. cohosted w/ speculative literature foundation and carl brandon society. invite you ... anyone interested in being a volunteer or joining cbs will find all of us there to help you get on board. thank you.

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'''Kara Mia Dalkey''' is a fantasy and historical fantasy writer; a designer; and musician. She is a member of [[The Scribblies]] and the [[Pre-Joycean Fellowship]].

==Bibliography==
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===Mitsuko===
*''Little Sister'' ([[1996]])
*''The Heavenward Path'' ([[1998]])

===Blood of the Goddess===
#''Goa'' (1996)
#''Bijapur'' ([[1997]])
#''Bhagavati'' (1998)

===Water Trilogy===
#''Ascension'' ([[2002]])
#''Reunion'' (2002)
#''Transformation'' (2002)

===Other novels===
*''The Nightingale'' ([[1988]])
*''Euryale'' (1988)
*''Steel Rose'' (1997)
*''Crystal Sage'' ([[1999]])
*''Genpei'' ([[2000]])

===Short stories===

*"The Hands of the Artist" in ''Liavek,'' edited by [[Will Shetterly]] & [[Emma Bull]], published by [[Ace Books]] in 1985.
*"Before the Paint is Dry" in ''Liavek: The Players of Luck,'' edited by [[Will Shetterly]] & [[Emma Bull]], published by [[Ace Books]] in 1986.
*"The World in the Rock" in ''Liavek: Wizard’s Row,'' edited by [[Will Shetterly]] & [[Emma Bull]], published by [[Ace Books]] in 1987.
*"Portrait of Vengeance" in ''Liavek: Spells of Binding,'' edited by [[Will Shetterly]] & [[Emma Bull]], published by [[Ace Books]] in 1988.
*"A Prudent Obedience" in ''Liavek: Festival Week,'' edited by [[Will Shetterly]] & [[Emma Bull]], published by [[Ace Books]] in 1990.
*"Lady of the Ice Garden" in ''Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction,'' ed. [[Sharyn November]], published by [[Firebird Books]] in 2003.
* "The Peony Lantern" (1991)
* "The Chrysanthemum Robe" (1995)
* "Bouncing Babies" (1999)

==Awards==
* Nominee, Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature - Best Novel, ''[[The Nightingale (novel)|The Nightingale]]'' (1989)

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