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Extrapolation

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'''Extrapolation''' (http://fp.dl.kent.edu/extrap/) was the first academic journal on speculative fiction.

* 1959 Founded by Thomas D. Clareson and published at College of Wooster.
* 1979 Moved to Kent State University Press
* 1989 Clareson stepped down as editor; Donald M. Hassler became editor
* 2002 Journal moved to University of Texas at Brownsville; Hassler became executive editor; Javier A. Martinez became editor

Special issues of note:
* WisCon Special Issue #1
* WisCon Special Issue #2

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[[Category:1959 publications]]

Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts

2007-03-19T14:28:47Z

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'''Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts''' (aka JFA; http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/iafa/jfa/jfa.html) is a refereed academic journal on the fantastic in the arts (literature, art, drama, film, and popular media).

It is indexed in the MLA Bibliography, and was established around 1993 from the [[International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts]] (ICFA).

Special issues of particular interest include:
* ''[[Doris Lessing (JFA issue)|Doris Lessing]]'', ed. Nicholas Ruddick, v.2, n.3
* ''[[Female Heroes (JFA issue)|Female Heroes]]'', ed. Gwendolyn Morgan, v.4, n.4
* ''[[The Goddess (JFA issue)|The Goddess]]'', ed. C. W. Sullivan III, v.9, n.1

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Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts

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'''Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts''' (aka JFA; http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/iafa/jfa/jfa.html) is a refereed academic journal on the fantastic in the arts (literature, art, drama, film, and popular media).

It is indexed in the MLA Bibliography, and was established around 1993 from the [[International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts]] (ICFA).

Special issues of particular interest include:
* ''[[The Goddess (JFA issue)|The Goddess]]'', ed. C. W. Sullivan III, v.9, n.1
* ''[[Female Heroes (JFA issue)|Female Heroes]]'', ed. Gwendolyn Morgan, v.4, n.4
* ''[[Doris Lessing (JFA issue)|Doris Lessing]]'', ed. Nicholas Ruddick, v.2, n.3

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Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts

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'''Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts''' (aka JFA; http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/iafa/jfa/jfa.html) is a refereed academic journal on the fantastic in the arts (literature, art, drama, film, and popular media).

It is indexed in the MLA Bibliography, and was established around 1993 from the [[International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts]] (ICFA).

Special issues of particular interest include:
* ''[[The Goddess (JFA issue)|The Goddess]]'', ed. C. W. Sullivan III, v.9, n.1
* "[[Female Heroes (JFA issue)|Female Heroes]]", ed. Gwendolyn Morgan, v.4, n.4
* "[[Doris Lessing (JFA issue)|Doris Lessing]]", ed. Nicholas Ruddick, v.2, n.3

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Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts

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Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts

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List of SF journals

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==Primarily Fiction==
* [[Analog]]
* Ansible
* Astounding
* Astounding Science Fiction (see [[Analog]])
* [[Asimov's Science Fiction]] (aka "Asimov's")
* Century (mostly SF, some non-SF fiction)
* Crank!
* Fantastic
* Fantasy Newsletter
* Galileo
* Infinity Plus
* Intercom (Italian)
* Interzone
* Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet (http://www.lcrw.net/lcrw/)
* Leviathan
* [[Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction]] (aka FSF or F&SF)
* New Venture
* Omni
* Parabola
* [[Sci Fiction]]
* Science Fiction Horizons
* Tangent (some non-SF fiction)
* Trampoline
* Witpunk
* Worlds of If

==Mixed==
* Fantastic Metropolis (http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com)
* SF Eye
* Science Fiction Weekly
* [[Strange Horizons (journal)]] (http://www.strangehorizons.com/)
* Tangent Online

==Primarily Critical==
* [[Extrapolation]]
* [[FemSpec]]
* [[Foundation (journal)|Foundation]]: The International Review of Science Fiction
* [[The Internet Review of Science Fiction]] (http://www.irosf.com/)
* [[Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts]] (JFA)
* [[Journal of Mythic Arts]]
* [[Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies]]
* [[Mythlore]] (from the [[Mythopoeic Society]])
* [[The New York Review of Science Fiction]] (NYRSF)
* [[Para*Doxa]]
* [[Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature]]
* [[SFRA Review]]
* [[Science-Fiction Studies]], 1973- (http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/)
* [[Slayage]]: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies (http://slayage.tv/)
* [[Journal of Utopian Studies]]
* [[Vector (journal)|Vector]]
* [[The Wellsian]]
* [[Whoosh!]] The Journal of the International Association of Xena Studies (http://www.whoosh.org/)
* [[Tolkien Studies]]: An Annual Scholarly Review ([http://www.wvupress.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=53&products_id=72&osCsid=0da061b0442e75395f6d33fc4230ddf1 WVU Press catalog]) (an annual journal of scholarship on Tolkien)

==Trade Press==
* Locus

==FanZines==
* [[The Witch and the Chameleon]]

==Interdisciplinary==
* Concatenation (formally: The Science Fact and Science Fiction Concatenation) - An annual review of science and SF; first published in 1987. Best known in Europe.

[[Category:Journals| ]]
[[Category:Scholarship]]

List of SF journals

2007-03-19T14:20:46Z

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==Primarily Fiction==
* [[Analog]]
* Ansible
* Astounding
* Astounding Science Fiction (see [[Analog]])
* [[Asimov's Science Fiction]] (aka "Asimov's")
* Century (mostly SF, some non-SF fiction)
* Crank!
* Fantastic
* Fantasy Newsletter
* Galileo
* Infinity Plus
* Intercom (Italian)
* Interzone
* Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet (http://www.lcrw.net/lcrw/)
* Leviathan
* [[Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction]] (aka FSF or F&SF)
* New Venture
* Omni
* Parabola
* [[Sci Fiction]]
* Science Fiction Horizons
* Tangent (some non-SF fiction)
* Trampoline
* Witpunk
* Worlds of If

==Mixed==
* Fantastic Metropolis (http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com)
* SF Eye
* Science Fiction Weekly
* [[Strange Horizons (journal)]] (http://www.strangehorizons.com/)
* Tangent Online

==Primarily Critical==
* [[Extrapolation]]
* [[Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts]]
* [[FemSpec]]
* [[Foundation (journal)|Foundation]]: The International Review of Science Fiction
* [[The Internet Review of Science Fiction]] (http://www.irosf.com/)
* [[Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies]]
* [[Journal of Mythic Arts]]
* [[Mythlore]] (from the [[Mythopoeic Society]])
* [[The New York Review of Science Fiction]] (NYRSF)
* [[Para*Doxa]]
* [[Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature]]
* [[SFRA Review]]
* [[Science-Fiction Studies]], 1973- (http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/)
* [[Slayage]]: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies (http://slayage.tv/)
* [[Journal of Utopian Studies]]
* [[Vector (journal)|Vector]]
* [[The Wellsian]]
* [[Whoosh!]] The Journal of the International Association of Xena Studies (http://www.whoosh.org/)
* [[Tolkien Studies]]: An Annual Scholarly Review ([http://www.wvupress.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=53&products_id=72&osCsid=0da061b0442e75395f6d33fc4230ddf1 WVU Press catalog]) (an annual journal of scholarship on Tolkien)

==Trade Press==
* Locus

==FanZines==
* [[The Witch and the Chameleon]]

==Interdisciplinary==
* Concatenation (formally: The Science Fact and Science Fiction Concatenation) - An annual review of science and SF; first published in 1987. Best known in Europe.

[[Category:Journals| ]]
[[Category:Scholarship]]

List of SF journals

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==Primarily Fiction==
* Analog
* Ansible
* Astounding
* Astounding Science-Fiction
* [[Asimov's Science Fiction]] (aka "Asimov's")
* Century (mostly SF, some non-SF fiction)
* Crank!
* Fantastic
* Fantasy Newsletter
* Galileo
* Infinity Plus
* Intercom (Italian)
* Interzone
* Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet (http://www.lcrw.net/lcrw/)
* Leviathan
* [[Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction]] (aka FSF or F&SF)
* New Venture
* Omni
* Parabola
* [[Sci Fiction]]
* Science Fiction Horizons
* Tangent (some non-SF fiction)
* Trampoline
* Witpunk
* Worlds of If

==Mixed==
* Fantastic Metropolis (http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com)
* SF Eye
* Science Fiction Weekly
* [[Strange Horizons (journal)]] (http://www.strangehorizons.com/)
* Tangent Online

==Primarily Critical==
* [[Extrapolation]]
* [[Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts]]
* [[FemSpec]]
* [[Foundation (journal)|Foundation]]: The International Review of Science Fiction
* [[The Internet Review of Science Fiction]] (http://www.irosf.com/)
* [[Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies]]
* [[Journal of Mythic Arts]]
* [[Mythlore]] (from the [[Mythopoeic Society]])
* [[The New York Review of Science Fiction]] (NYRSF)
* [[Para*Doxa]]
* [[Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature]]
* [[SFRA Review]]
* [[Science-Fiction Studies]], 1973- (http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/)
* [[Slayage]]: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies (http://slayage.tv/)
* [[Journal of Utopian Studies]]
* [[Vector (journal)|Vector]]
* [[The Wellsian]]
* [[Whoosh!]] The Journal of the International Association of Xena Studies (http://www.whoosh.org/)
* [[Tolkien Studies]]: An Annual Scholarly Review ([http://www.wvupress.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=53&products_id=72&osCsid=0da061b0442e75395f6d33fc4230ddf1 WVU Press catalog]) (an annual journal of scholarship on Tolkien)

==Trade Press==
* Locus

==FanZines==
* [[The Witch and the Chameleon]]

==Interdisciplinary==
* Concatenation (formally: The Science Fact and Science Fiction Concatenation) - An annual review of science and SF; first published in 1987. Best known in Europe.

[[Category:Journals| ]]
[[Category:Scholarship]]

List of SF journals

2007-03-19T14:17:41Z

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==Primarily Fiction==
* Analog
* Ansible
* Astounding
* Astounding Science-Fiction
* [[Asimov's Science Fiction]] (aka "Asimov's")
* Century (mostly SF, some non-SF fiction)
* Crank!
* Fantastic
* Fantasy Newsletter
* Galileo
* Infinity Plus
* Intercom (Italian)
* Interzone
* Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet (http://www.lcrw.net/lcrw/)
* Leviathan
* [[Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction|The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction]] (aka FSF or F&SF)
* New Venture
* Omni
* Parabola
* [[Sci Fiction]]
* Science Fiction Horizons
* Tangent (some non-SF fiction)
* Trampoline
* Worlds of If
* The Clackamas Review
* Witpunk

==Mixed==
* Fantastic Metropolis (http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com)
* SF Eye
* Science Fiction Weekly
* [[Strange Horizons (journal)]] (http://www.strangehorizons.com/)
* Tangent Online

==Primarily Critical==
* [[Extrapolation]]
* [[Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts]]
* [[FemSpec]]
* [[Foundation (journal)|Foundation]]: The International Review of Science Fiction
* [[The Internet Review of Science Fiction]] (http://www.irosf.com/)
* [[Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies]]
* [[Journal of Mythic Arts]]
* [[Mythlore]] (from the [[Mythopoeic Society]])
* [[The New York Review of Science Fiction]] (NYRSF)
* [[Para*Doxa]]
* [[Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature]]
* [[SFRA Review]]
* [[Science-Fiction Studies]], 1973- (http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/)
* [[Slayage]]: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies (http://slayage.tv/)
* [[Journal of Utopian Studies]]
* [[Vector (journal)|Vector]]
* [[The Wellsian]]
* [[Whoosh!]] The Journal of the International Association of Xena Studies (http://www.whoosh.org/)
* [[Tolkien Studies]]: An Annual Scholarly Review ([http://www.wvupress.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=53&products_id=72&osCsid=0da061b0442e75395f6d33fc4230ddf1 WVU Press catalog]) (an annual journal of scholarship on Tolkien)

==Trade Press==
* Locus

==FanZines==
* [[The Witch and the Chameleon]]

==Interdisciplinary==
* Concatenation (formally: The Science Fact and Science Fiction Concatenation) - An annual review of science and SF; first published in 1987. Best known in Europe.

[[Category:Journals| ]]
[[Category:Scholarship]]

Maternal Instincts (Xena episode)

2007-03-12T05:16:46Z

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{{Infobox-XenaEpisode
| Title = Maternal Instincts
| Series = [[Xena: Warrior Princess]]
| Image =
| Caption =
| Season = 3
| Episode = 11
| Airdate = 1998 Jan. 26
| Production = #V0405
| Writer = Chris Manheim; Robert Field (editor)
| Director = Mark Beesley
| Guests = Callisto (Hudson Leick); Amy Morrison (Hope/Fayla); David Taylor (Solan); Ephiny (Danielle Cormack); Jeff Boyd (Kaleipus)
| Episode list = [[List of Xena episodes]]
| Prev = [[The Quill Is Mightier]]
| Next = [[The Bitter Suite]]
}}

==Disclaimer==
"Xena and Gabrielle's relationship was harmed during the production of this motion picture."

[[Category:Xena episodes]]

Main Page

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{{FSFwiki head}}

<center><big><big><big>a secret conspiracy</big></big></big></center>

[[Visions of an FSFwiki]]: What's your vision of the FSFwiki? a reference like wikipedia? a reference like the Star Trek wiki? a source of theory? a home for various polemical essays?

Current highlighted projects:

* [[FSFwiki:Getting_started|Getting started]]

* [[Women and madness]] - inspired by discussions on the [http://blogs.feministsf.net/ FSFblog] about "[[Heroes (TV series)]]" and [[Niki Sanders]]

* Fix the red links: Red links mean someone thinks a page should exist on that topic, but it hasn't been created yet. There are a whole bunch listed at [http://wiki.feministsf.net/index.php?title=Special:Wantedpages Special pages: Wanted pages]. Click on one and jot down whatever you know about that topic.
:: '''At the start of this project there are 2,371 "pages wanted" (unique red links; some are even on this page) and about 950 unique pages in the FSFwiki. At the end of the project there should be more pages. New pages breed wanted pages, so total # of pages is the measure of success.'''

== The Heart of Feminist SF : the community ==

'''[[:category:Events|Events]]'''
* [[WisCon]] -- please [[WisCon 30|add your transcripts, bibliographies, comments & reports]]
* [[Women's Wiki Camp]] (to be renamed later)

'''[[:category:Groups|Feminist SF & Related Organizations & Communities]]'''
* [[Secret Feminist Cabal]] & other [[feminist conspiracies]]
* [[feministSF.org]], the host of this wiki, listserves, and various websites over the years ... see http://feministsf.org/
* [[:category:FSFNet Working Groups|FSF.Net Working Groups]] - working groups on various FSF projects
** Think Tankery Working Group, coming soon
** [[Láadan Working Group]]: notes for moving forward

'''[[:category:People|Feminist SF fans, editors, writers, scholars & other people]]'''
* [[Memorials & remembrances]]
**[[Lisa Barnett]], ([[1958]]-[[2006]])
**[[Octavia Butler]], ([[1947]]-[[2006]])
**[[Jayge Carr]], ([[1940]]-[[2006]])

'''Business of feminist SF'''
* [[:Category:Publishers and presses|Publishers and presses]]
* [[:category:Writers' resources|Writers' resources]] including foundations, grants, writing groups, workshops, etc.
* Women SF Writers' Groups: [[Broad Universe]] and [[SFFFW]]
* [[:category:Awards|Awards]]: [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award]] -- The 2005 award was just given to [[Geoff Ryman]]'s [[Air (novel)|Air]] at [[WisCon 30]] ... see http://tiptree.org/ for more info. Other awards: Carl Brandon Society [[Carl Brandon Parallax Award|Parallax Award]] and [[Carl Brandon Kindred Award|Kindred Award]] ... Gaylactic [[Spectrum Awards]] ... SFFFW [[Roots in Writing Award]] ... [[Sense of Gender Award]]
* [[:category:Editors|Editors]]
* [[:category:Agents|Agents]]

'''Fandom'''
* [[:category:SF conventions|SF conventions]]
* [[Women in fandom]]

== FSF Books, Authors, Etc. ==

'''Writers & Other Creators'''
* [[Author List]] and
* [[Artists|Artists, Musicians, Etc.]]

'''Books & Bibliographies'''
* [[Influential feminist SF books]]
* [[Canons]]
* [[Reading paths]]
* [[:Category:Themes|Themes]]
* [[:Category:Media and formats|Works in various formats]]: — [[Feminist comic books for kids]] — [[:category:Films|Films]] — [[:Category:Novels|Novels]]

'''Themes & Characterizations'''
* [[List of themes|Literary Devices, Tropes, Themes, Plot Points]] common to Feminist SF
** [[Myths]] of particular interest to FSF
* [[Women in SF]]
** [[Clichés, Archetypes, Stereotypes of Female Characters in SF|Cliché]] female characterizations (needs filler)
** [[Women in SF Art]]
** [[:category:Notable female characters|Notable Female Characters]]
** [[List of mythological female characters]]

==Feminist SF Studies & Scholarship==
* [[:Category:Feminist SF studies|Feminist SF studies]]
* [[Courses]] and [[Syllabi]]
* [[FeministSF Critical Theory]]
* [[:category:Scholars|Scholars]]

* [[Timeline]] of Women in SF & Feminist SF
* [[Related]] related information on "SF" or "feminism" etc.
* [[Quotes]]

== What is this? ==

* what's the [[mission|feministSF wiki]]?
** what's the FSFwiki [[mission]]?
** what's the [[FSFwiki process]] for negotiating disputes & the like?
** why is there stuff on this wiki that seems [[silly, random, and gay]]?
** why aren't you just putting this stuff on [[wikipedia]]?
** "can I do it?" yes. Anybody can edit text -- go ahead, try it! Click "edit" at the top of the page ... (Except for this first page ... You have to log in & create a userID to edit the first page, a protection added because of linkspam.) See the [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide User's Guide] or the [[QuickCheatSheet|Quick Cheat Sheet]]
*** want to do more?: If you want to be a super-editor and help do initial technical configurations of the wiki, write [[User:Lquilter|Laura Quilter]] or lquilter at lquilter.net with "fsfwiki" in the subject line.
*** how do I make [[suggestions]]? (add them to the [[suggestions]] page)
*** how can I help? contribute to our [[To Do List]]
*** [[Wiki Office Hours]] - Scheduled time when someone will be on the wiki, hoping for collaboration and chat in realtime

* what's [[feminist SF]]?
* what's [[feminism]]?
** what are some [[:category:Feminist issues|feminist issues]] and [[:category:Feminist processes|feminist processes]]?
* what's [[SF]]?

* what's a wiki? how do I edit it?
** [[QuickCheatSheet|Quick Cheat Sheet]]

* [[Funding|How is this funded? Can I donate?]]

... more [[:category:About|About]]

== Navigation ==

* [[Special:Allpages|A-Z Index of All Pages]]

A Necessary Evil (Xena episode)

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{{Infobox-XenaEpisode
| Title = A Necessary Evil
| Series = [[Xena: Warrior Princess]]
| Image =
| Caption =
| Season = 2
| Episode = 14
| Airdate = 1997 Feb. 10
| Production = #V0219
| Writer = Paul Robert Coyle; Robert Field (editor)
| Director = Mark Beesley
| Guests = Hudson Leick ([[Callisto]]); Melinda Clarke (Velasca); Danielle Cormack (Ephiny); Jodie Dorday (Solari)
| Episode list = [[List of Xena episodes]]
| Prev = [[The Quest (Xena episode)|The Quest]]
| Next = [[A Day in the Life]]
}}

==Dialog==

"Amazons don't have parades."

==Disclaimer==
"The reputation of the Amazon Nation was not harmed despite Velasca's overly radical adherence to an otherwise valid belief system."

{{DEFAULTSORT:Necessary Evil, A}}

[[Category:Xena episodes]]

Category talk:Notable Female Characters

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I wonder if the category should just be "Female characters" ... why wouldn't we be fairly completist, and talk about whatever aspects there are to any character? --[[User:Lquilter|LQ]] 18:22, 10 February 2007 (PST)

We can be completist, we can list female characters in general, *and* still mark some female characters as notable, for whatever reason. Lead female character, for instance, or complex villains, may be far more notable than a male hero's girlfriend of the week, you know? And this doesn't preclude an examination of the "girlfriend of the week" syndrome, either. --[[User:Ide Cyan|Ide Cyan]] 14:12, 11 February 2007 (PST)

* but better just to flag as "notable", maybe? then anybody can be flagged as notable? ... no, that coudl be problematic. hmm. --LQ

Talk:Chocky

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So is Albertine a scientist? Or appropriate to list on female scientists? --[[User:Lquilter|Lquilter]] 13:17, 24 November 2006 (PST)

Talk:Chocky

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So is Albertine a scientist? Or appropriate to list on female scientists? --[[User:71.232.117.128|71.232.117.128]] 13:17, 24 November 2006 (PST)

The Librarian Hero (WisCon 30 panel)

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==some notes==

* quote from ''The Golden Globe'' by [[John Varley]]
Hal had a UniKnowledge module, which was the nearest thing we'd ever get to summing up all human information collected since the days of the Cro-Magnon. It held all the libraries of Old Earth. All the movies, television shows, photo files. Billions of billions of bits of data so obscure a researcher might visit some of it once in two or three hundred years, and then only long enough to find it no longer had any reasonable excuse for being. But it wasn't thrown out. Capacity was virtually infinite, so nothing was ever tossed. Who knew? In ten centuries the twenty years of telemetry from Viking I might be of use to somebody. A vanity-press book, published in 1901, all about corn silage in Minnesota, of which no hard copy existed, might be just the reading you were looking for some dark and stormy night. The UniKnowledge held thousands of books printed in Manx, a language no one had spoken in a hundred years. It held Swahili comic books teaching methods of contraception. It contained cutting-room debris saved from a million motion pictures, discarded first drafts of films never made. A copy of every phone book extant at the time we began to record data by laser, and every one printed since. Fully half of the information in the UK had never been cataloged, and much never referenced in the centuries since its inception, and most of it was likely never to be cataloged. That would be taking the pack-rat impulse too far. Librarians had other things to do, such as develop more powerful search engines to sort through the inchoate mass of data when somebody wanted to find out something truly obscure.

==Works Cited==

* The librarian in pratchett - horace warblehatt (orangutan)
* library in gene wolfe's city of the new sun - library underlying time & space
* david brin's libraries in his uplift series
* use the library & then you get the bill ...
* piers anthony's macroscope sort of a library
* the grand complication / kurzweil - research librarians
* cheshire cat in thursday ... series / jasper fford
* time traveler's wife
* neil gaiman's sandman / librarian of the dreamland
* fingersmith / sarah waters - victorian porn librarian
* the librarian in The Mummy
* elizabeth peters' jacquelyn kirby characters
* "barbara gordon" who was batgirl & managed to run a public library size of NYPL straight out of library school; then when crippled is now Oracle, reference librarian to entire superhero community
* the librarian of basra / jeannette winter
* "read or die" / anime - miniseries; broken into 3 parts, avail on one disk. then a series b/c that was so popular. but doesn't contain main characters.
* Rex Libris comic book series - issue #4 - "Slave Labor Graphics"
* Jedi Librarian
* Harry Potter librarian creepy
* Steven King / "The Library Policeman"
* Joel Rosenberg's librarians of the flame
* Gill Alderman / The Archivist
* "In the Stacks" edited by Michael Cart - short stories about librarians
* "Magic and Madness in the Library" ed. by Eric Garber
* "Mainspring" / Jay Lake - librarian saving the world
* jay lake librarian characters

===where to get more===
* novelist / what do i read next - reader advisory services
* bookstore in ohio / book detective

==real librarian heroes==
* Kathy Glick-Weill / newton free library - stood off FBI for 48 hours
* Clara Breed / librarian during WW2 - when Japanese Americans were taken away to internment camps she kept in touch with her patrons
* Miss Ruth Brown - racial integration in her southern library. "Storm Center" movie; book by Louise Robins
* The 4 Connecticut librarians who resisted the PATRIOT Act subpoenas

==External Links==

* http://feministsf.org/bibs/librarians.html Librarian Bibliography from feministSF.org

[[Category:WisCon 30 Panels|Librarian Hero]]

The Wages of Trash (WisCon 30 Panel)

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==Panel Description==

[[Dorothy Allison]] once said, "I am the wages of trash," referring to her adolescent reading tastes. What can books and stories commonly considered "trash literature" teach us? How can they liberate our minds? And what the heck makes something trashy in the first place?

==Panelists==

[[Victoria D. McManus]] (moderator), [[Chris Hill]], [[Nora Jemison]], [[Stu Shiffman]], [[Micole Sudberg]]

==External Links==

* [http://coffeeandink.livejournal.com/595661.html coffee and ink notes 6/1]
* [http://coffeeandink.livejournal.com/598045.html coffee and ink notes 6/8]

[[category:WisCon 30 Panels|Wages of Trash]]

The Wages of Trash (WisCon 30 Panel)

2006-11-21T01:30:36Z

71.232.117.128: /* External Links */ added link to notes

Curse Words and Other Ways to Tell It's Not a Children's Book (WisCon 30 Panel)

2006-11-21T01:28:55Z

71.232.117.128: coffee and ink notes

[[category:WisCon 30 Panels]]

==Panel Description==
2 Curse Words and Other Ways to Tell It's Not a Childrens Book
Reading SF&F•Assembly• Friday, 10:00-11:15 a.m.

Panels on childrens literature almost always deal with the issue of what makes a book a childrens book. Let's look at it from a different angle and see if we can come up with books that are definitely not for children. Is it all about protecting kids from sex and profanity?

==Panelists==
M: Susan Palwick, Jane Yolen, Emma Bull, Victoria D. McManus, judy [judith] s. Peterson

==External Links==

* [http://coffeeandink.livejournal.com/604465.html Coffee and Ink notes]

[[category:WisCon 30 Panels]]

Dark Fantasy (WisCon 30 Panel)

2006-11-21T01:28:18Z

71.232.117.128: coffee and ink notes

==Panel Description==
18 Dark Fantasy
Reading SF&F•629• Friday, 1:00-2:15 p.m.
Dark fantasy has become wildly popular in both romance and erotica. What does it take for a fantasy to qualify as "dark?" It has to be more than just the use of beings such as vampires and werewolves. What is the appeal? Who are some of your favorite authors and why?

==Panelists==
M: Sarah Monette, Patricia C. Hodgell, Diana Sherman, Tiffany L. Trent

[[Patricia C. Hodgell]], [[Sarah Monette]] (moderator), [[Diana Sherman]], [[Tiffany L. Trent]]. [[Ron Serdiuk]] was scheduled to moderate but didn't make it.

==External Links==
* [http://truepenny.livejournal.com/438909.html Sarah Monette's notes]
* [http://coffeeandink.livejournal.com/604961.html Coffee and Ink notes]

[[category:WisCon 30 Panels]]

Something About Alice (WisCon 30 Panel)

2006-11-21T01:27:46Z

71.232.117.128: added notes at coffee and ink

==Panel Description==
54 There's Something About Alice: The Life, Fiction, and Fictional Life of James Tiptree, Jr.
Reading SF&F•Senate A• Friday, 10:15-11:30 p.m.
Stories for men, women, and the rest of us. This panel will touch upon the lasting influence of Alice Sheldon/James Tiptree, Jr. on feminist and gender-explorative speculative fiction. We will review Sheldon's life and career (actually careers, including painter, experimental psychologist, CIA agent, and male science fiction author); the Tiptree Award's history and recent winning/shortlisted works in the James Tiptree Award Anthology 2; and some of the history and current developments in feminist and gender-bending SF/F.

==Panelists==
M: Amanda Bankier, Debbie Notkin, Julie Phillips, Jeff Smith

==External Links==

* [http://coffeeandink.livejournal.com/605235.html Notes at Coffee and Ink]

[[category:WisCon 30 Panels]]

The Muse Is Never Monogamous (WisCon 30 Panel)

2006-11-21T01:25:31Z

71.232.117.128: alphabetizing cat

==A few notes about titles & incidents mentioned on the panel.==

ip /

writer of the happy cat / ... ? before colin doyle
* sold his copyright
* handsome cat publishing company formed
* first guaranteed million seller in crime genre
* FERGUS SHIRE NEVER HAD A BOOK SO SUCCESSFUL AGAIN
* worst business decision he made in his career

j. m. barrie - peter pan
* what happened with hook

* creativity ... right to re-use works

* insulin re-peating patents with twists

* 17.5 years ago published a short story in a fantasy magazine; 8 years ago this story was paid homage to in a movie that made a lot of money. told two things: don't own the idea; hard lesson to learn. they don't own the idea either but anyone can pay homage to it.

* h. g. wells still in copyright ... continuation from The Time Machine
* manuscript assessment / did a sequel to h.g. wells. i said do you realize that you might end up having to pay money to h.g. wells estate; he phoned me up long-distance & thanked me.

* gregory maguire - wicked. did lots of checking on movie as well as book to make sure not taking too much.

* panelist poem on making light

* dr. rink superhero shrink

* lucy sussex / writing a history of crime fiction -- enabled circulation of texts
** poe w/in a couple of months of rue morgue published
** began to get picked up in france
** poe never saw any money from his

* the hitler diaries / forger who mostly forged paintings
** news of the weird
** the guy's daughter has been selling his forged paintings
** two forgers, the one was forging vermeers for the nazis
** forged old masters collectible in their own right
** fake fakes
** orson welles /

* graphic design - notion that everything is up for grabs
** susan mieselas / riot /

* poets & graphic artists - want a particular reaction

* nonfiction book on teaching genetics to non-scientists

* mad hot ballroom

* poem about death of princess diana / andrew motion
** published all over the web
** a lot of people saw it who had never seen his work before
** contributed to him becoming the british poet laureate

* star wars / crewof2.com

[[Category:WisCon 30 Panels|Muse Is Never Monogamous]]

Myth of Class Mobility? (WisCon 30 Panel)

2006-11-21T01:25:03Z

71.232.117.128: added notes from coffee and ink, fixed cat

==Panelists==

[[Avedon Carol]] (moderator), [[Matt Austern]], [[David Levine]], [[Victor Raymond]], [[Samuel R. Delany]],

==Transcript Notes==

original transcript notes by Laura Quilter - please correct or fill in or add commentary

===Introductions===
[[Avedon Carol]]: There's so many good things going on right now I know SOMEONE on this panel must be a rock-star. (looking at Chip Delany)

[[David Levine]]: Crack-whore, moved to Bellaire.

AC: Fan since 1974. ... Now all I really do is write a blog where I rant and rave about the criminals taking over this country. It's called Sideshow [http://sideshow.me.uk]. ... pink

?: Which makes it easy to find on the web.

laughter

[[Victor Raymond]]. Right now I'm living in Iowa. Is this thing on? Much better. On switch. Doctoral candidate in sociology. I think I'm the token demographer to tell you how bad things are getting and it is.

[[Samuel R. Delany]]. Still a writer; also a professor at Temple University in Philadelphia where I teach English and creative writing. That's all you really need to know.

[[Matt Austern]]

===Discussion===

AC: I assume each of you has some data point that moved you on this subject. Dave?

DL: I have to wonder how true it ever was. I mean we've had -- I started out wondering how true the American story of class mobility. We've had Horatio Alger. But I wonder whether it was ever as true as the mythmakers wanted us to think.

MA: I will leave it to Victor to explain that class mobility is declining; I'll make the assertion & let someone else back it up. But I'm mostly interested in the myth aspect. I don't think it was ever true that class mobility was much more here than in other countries. But we have had a robust myth about it. I'll probably get into this a little bit later, but I think it has an interesting effect in this country. The myth of class mobility is a conservative one, and I think it plays a part about why we don't have things that other countries do.

SD: One of the things we have to remember is that class mobility is what fiction is about. Almost all fiction is one way or another about what happens when someone in one class confronts someone in another class. The rise thru society is what the traditional 19th century novel was all about. And it's what makes fiction interesting. Fiction becomes interesting the moment the middle-class kid is thrown among soldiers, and we can't Captain Courageous. Whoopie -- ? throwin in the middle class. One of the things Jack London had to say is that it's not pleasant, and Martin ends up killing himself; London was out to show that class mobility is an illusion. Martin wants to be a working-class artist and then realizes that everyone is shafting him one way or another. Very much like Flaubert's --? the good-hearted worker otherwise befriended by all these well-meaning people who were shafting him.

Writers have always tried to show one way or another is what class encounters are, should be, are in reality. I think we're still writing about that and when we do we come up with interesting stories and when we don't we fuck it up.

AC: All right, before we get to the expert, I want to interject: a lot of this belief in the whole class mobility thing, really goes -- sometimes it's individual extreme cases; people break the rules; but it's also society-wide catastrophe event that can alter circumstances. My family -- children during the depression, their parents were immigrants; to them, class mobility is actual experience -- GI Bill, WW2, making it possible to get that house -- to become what we call the middle class. We call the middle class and it really is the working class but we a fancy name for it. Fandom -- most of us are working class but we've managed to get a nicer spot in the working-class hierarchy but we're not traveling that far out of the working class hierarchy. ... My parents, perceived themselves as having made a significant change. When we talk about class mobility we're talking about improving circumstances w/in the working class. ... And it's absolutely true that it's getting harder. Becuase of people at the top. That's what we call class mobility. I'm in favor of it -- I like the idea that anybody working class who has class aspiratoins can get a better TV, send their kid to college, become an intellectual, become a coal miner, if they want to. ... But ultimate evil is to essentially enslave people even if we don't call it slavery.

AC: and now Victor.

VR: That's a hard act to follow. A few observations. ... Class mobility undergirds fiction. Made me think metaphorically that opportunity to leave one class & enter another is not unlike metaphorically entering new world; a first contact. ... And to that extent should be believed in as much. ... To get back to Avedon, the tension b/w reality ... one can observe that there are a relatively small # of people & institutions that have an inordinate amt of control over others; part of hegemonic control is to promote myth of mobility w/out even getting people to look at reality of class differences that are persistent, structural & long-lasting.

MA: Even tho I'm not a real demographer I'm going to go a little bit into this -- basic facts -- median wage for white men peaked in 1973; it has been roughly constant since then, maybe slightly declining. mean wage has been increasing dramatically; the growth has occurred at the top -- very top, top 0.1%. top 1%i is still less than top 10% and one of conflicts between belief & reality that we have in US today is a lot of our expectations about how wage growth works & class mobility works are set around the world of 1973, the peak. a couple of very unusual decades b/w late 40s & early 70s which were very good for white male working class.

? Q: do you mean wages or income?

MA: I mean income.

AC: you mean buying power?

MA: I mean inflation-adjusted income and my knowledge is running down.

DL: key in on chip -- myth is conservative. if you look at frames, one of the key concepts is that what you get in life is earned from who you are and what you do. the myth is that people in the top are there because they earned it. it helps keep the rest of us down by in stilling in us the concept that if i'm not doing well in life it's my own fault & i should work harder, be a better cog. like pie in the sky - justifying your own place at the top and providing a (pacifying) myth to others down.

AC: like various myths -- social darwinism, calvinism. watching christians who are really calvinists.

MA: even earlier - great chain of being; the idea that a happy ending to a story is for all people to be restored to where they belong. i detect that in some stories like cinderella - she should have always been at the top & then her true worth was recognized & she was restored.

SD: since we're at wiscon we could look at what part women play. i think the quintessential novel is the one about women moving thru class - the great fat thing you see in 7 volumes, Remembrance of Things Past; heroine starts out as a street walker, spends a few years as a mistress, then ends as a Duchess. her rise thru class -- a story that Balzac tells in his novels; it's a story that Proust has chosen to tell in his novel. an index of the fall of culture -- the fact that she gets higher & higher is a sign that society is in decline. Odette prostitute taking over highest place in society is a sign that highest place has fallen. ... Vanity Fair is the english version of the same thing. a repeated story that we tell ourselves again and again. on the other hand -- there's another side to class mobility wher eit actually works. my grandmfather -- not great grandfather, but my grandfather -- was born a slave in this country. he was born in 1857, and emancipation came when he was 7 years old. that's my GRANDFATHER. probably there are similar stories to be told somewhere in russia in terms of the peasantry there. but that's really amazing that two generations later you've got a tenured english professor coming directly from slaves. there is something really odd about the united states that things like this can happen. and i will go to my grave thinking fundmanetally it's a good thing, not a bad thing. there needs to be more of it and i would like to see more of it and i would like to see it more widely spread. the fact that it happens at all -- and you compare to the much more sedimented european societies.

AC: certainly a good thing that i can hear chip delany say things like that. certainly a good thing and a weird thing that we can have that situation where the grandchild of a slave can be a university professor. i was born at a time and raised at a time when women were not allowed to ahve any expertise on anything least of all sexual matters ... not polite for women ... so all the experts on female sexuality were men; you actually had men telling women what it was like to be pregnant. ... i like the idea that these conservative ideas -- so contradictory; we are actually watching fox news S& told at the same time that as we lower people rise thru society we have debased society; that's a constant message we hear from conservatives even while they pretend to be promoters of american progress in society.

VR: a few facts for people to know - for example roughly b/w 1960 when first measurement was made b/w comparable worth b/w men & women, 59c/dollar, by 2006 for comparable worth/work it is now roughly 74c/women for 1.00/men. if this rate of increase continues and does not change and decrease or icnerase altho i t hasn't shown any signs of that -- we'll gain comparable worth b/w men & women roughly 2065. now that might be sf.

AC: mike lowrey -

aud/mike lowrey: not as drastic for me as for sam. my mom & daddy picked cotton. i have dragged myself from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

VR: so that makes you a marxist

aud/mike lowrey: yes ... brings me to the wagner act. the product of the wagner act is the reason that there is what little decrease in class differences there were and what little class mobility there was b/e 1936 & 1973 is because there were unions, they worked, and they were allowed to organize. that was hampered greatly by taft-hartley act but the fact is that the strength of unions & possibility of class mobility for most americans correlates to a terrifyingly large degree & no coincidence that union membership at its lowest point now. matt w/ all due respect great chain of being is the old story. the story told now to workers is that everyone can become a millionaire & any limits on millionaires will hurt you & your chances of becoming a millionaire. if you read into the conservative press even into the 50s there were still worker-run cooperatives and still old visions of bringing a new world ... and there were more than one path -- not just becoming billionaire like walton family -- but bringing up class. and we've been told that's dead and the only sole path to power is by becoming a billionaire yourself.

MA: in fact we've been told something more than that -- voting patterns phrase -- aspirational class identification. you vote not as the class you are but the class you think you belong to, the class you aspire to. in some sense this is a magical ritual: if you vote like a billionaire the billionaireness will rub off on you. in fact it is insulting if you tell people that they should vote to the class they are in b/c they hear that as saying they will never get better.

... AC:

DL: ...altho i think it's sad to tell people about votingn against their own economic interest i also against my own economic advantage b/c i vote for people who will increase my own taxes.

MA: i don't vote against my economic itnerest; i vote for better infrastructure etc.

... chat

VR: class in society is also fractured along racial lines & we have to remember that. unions were segregated. ... white families in society have on average 8x the wealth of black families. if you look at it that way, the effect on native americans as well as on latino people as well as african-americans or blacks you will find that this society does radically stratify on class along racial lines.

VR: my story is not that unlike chip's; my g-g-grandfather was an army scout for US army. if we go back more than 5 generations there are no records because my people did not have them. my father went from living on or near a reservation in south dakota and he realized that he had to get out. so i grew up firmly believing that i was a middle-class child without realizing that from my ethnic background i was at the top of an economic pyramid.

SD: voting against economic interest i wonder if it doesn't divide out slightly differently. i think the way it works - any 18yo kid doing a sweep-up job no matter where or what ethnicity the kid is it probably works like this: i am getting all my salary from X; what are X's best interests. i vote for the best interests of the person who pays me my money b/c if he or she does well then i will do well. ... i've seen very few people analyze it like that but i think that's the way it works. it's not even voting for the class interests or the class you aspire to be, it's voting for the class that's paying you.

VR: organization man

audience: decline of unions was half of my point; the other half was the drastic increase in price of education over past 3 decades. if you look at statistics not only is cost of education increasing but money providing loans etc has gone thru floor. and getting edudcation w/out going into debt for 30 years

AC: i think there's a deception there b/c if they're moving the jobs to another counry it doesn't matter how educated you are. structural stuff. as long asthey had the money to go to these schools it didn't matter if they had anything. it was just social club a party for the social class, the ruling class. a lot of these people are never going to do anything.

VR: education does have ameliorative effect on poverty

audience/LQ: ?

audience: story of class mobility is a story of shape-shifting, you have to take on aspects of class, shift thru social structures to take on aspects of that class, take on appearance of that class

audience: world of debt / now adadys student loans etc. ... people spend to the class they aspire to.

VR: credit cards.

AC: when AirAmerica started and they netcast, so i'm actually listening to AirAmerica AM radio and all of a sudden i'm hearing things actually aimed at that group of people and it's a constant petrifying nbarrage of instruction about how to get out of debt. it is nothing like i heard on the ardio when i left this country 7 years ago. everybody listening to the radio is assumed to be living in incredibly precarious conditions. so we want to sell you an absolute scam that will sort of make things seem better.

DL: getting into question of shapeshifting to change class or spending to change class this gets into a question that i've been thinking about the whole panel which is what is class? it's a stet of tastes, actions, possessions. you can't change class just by earning more $ that just makes you nouveau riche, someone prtending to be upper class. les miserables an attempted inversion -- who are the comedy characters the ones who start out at the bottom but they're trying to be tops but they aren't fooling anybody. so when you mimic a higher class to try to become it - the only way to actually become class is to actually do it, but really what is class but a set of appearance & behaviors.

MA: there are difficulties in defining class but i think we shouldn't lose too much sight of the underlying issues of MONEY and POWER

audience: necessary & sufficient

VR: yes it's possessions etc but it's defined by those w/ power & wealth & those definitions are part of hegemonic discourse of power.

audience (carol?): 3 comments. one when we talk about class mobility most of it is all w/in middle, lower-to-middle-to-upper middle or maybe professional but that's upper middle not upper class. i don't think very many people make it even from lower to upper top unless they marry there. i don't think even john kerry was there until he married there.

AC: again it's movement w/in working class. you do see people who start as dirt poor & maki it to working class. right. but you don't make it to top classes.

aud (carol?): the other thing is voting - the NYT has sa thing about how almost nobody wanted to vote for the estate tax b/c they all thought they would have $6M when they died. and i live in farming community and farmers thought that.

AC: but we kept hearing about family farmers losing their farms. that was a lie.

DL: they voted that way b/c they were lied to

aud (carol?): they were lied to by the media

audB - another thing is standard of living vs. class. the poorest of the poor hear have a higher standard of living than in other countries. so why do they stay b/c our floors are better than the floors from where they came.

VR: do people know what minimum wage in mexico is? translates to $5 a day. do the math.

audB: problem w/ defining class in a society that tries to prtend it has class mobility without having class is a major contradiction in US. i don't see anything ennobling about having to work for a living. I'm a sf fan: let the robots work. i've had very strange arguments w/ people who seem to think in paradise that everyone will work.

AC: we were supposed to have more leisure b/c of technology

audB: 40-hour work week has been good & modernization has freed us from drudgery but lives are still consumed by having to work at someone else's beck & call. corporation government is much more ... safety net isn't there; puts you in so much more peril that you have to keep that job b/c you can't' afford to not be employed. "have to be employed" is a defining characteristic

VR: what we're in essence doing is recreating a kind of corporate feudalism. some of the jobs we now consider most desirable kind of entail a liege

AC: healthcare a kind of slavery

panel: we don't have corporate feudalism b/c corporate masters have no obligation to us.

aud/Steve Schwartz: immigration myth drove a great deal of 18th/19th century "look you can make it" b/c everywhere people could look around & say "hey the schwartzes" have done good for themselves.

VR: profoundly changing our ideas of whiteness.

audience: any thoughts on monopoly end-game syndrome. alwayhsb lips -- like in 60s lots of artists etc. become millionaires. but it's kind of like in the beginning of the game in monopoly you can get lucky but gradually all the hotels get owned by the same people and mobility whatever amount of it there is decreases even more significantly and i wonder if we're reaching that time or whether it's the same as 10-15 years ago.

SD: the major thing is that a million dollars is not worth nearly as much as it used to be

MA: wealth distribution has gotten much more unqueal over last few years

VR: it is an "L" curve and i'm not kidding

MA: end state is a wealth distribution curve like el salvador; we're not there yet but are heading that way.

AC: i remember growing up with the vision of calcultta as a terrifying picture; growing up in america it was always thank god i'm not there. i've been very aware over last 20 years that we are starting to accept the idea of heading in that direction.

.... lots of audience/panel back & forth ....

VR: Hoxchild study, second shift; one of the things demonstrated is that in a two-income household, the household tasks were still being performed by women; even in households were men & women earnestly & ardently felt they were splitting it 50/50, the time & motion studies indicated men doing a third of the work.

audience: academic class.

MA: fights over rights of unionization of professors; at my father's university they denied them the right to unionize b/c they were managerial.

Allison: i've got a collection.

AC: try & be brief

allison: way back in discussion of republican/conservative, the dissonance b/w what we're asking people to believe, i think it's on both sides. it's rather which one you prefer and we're asking 2 diff things. on neocon side we're asking working side to believe that it is better to give things to an upper class b/c then they will benefit ultimately ... trickledown. on democratic end we're asking people middle-class & above to give to their community possibly not in their own personal & immediate interest b/c it will trickle-down to them. now personally i believe in democratic plan but we're asking both sides not to vote for their own individual personal itnerest.
- having to look like the class you're in. there are a whole lot of those single-digit millionaires. many of us know or are people like that. and they don't look like millionaires. they may have a nice home but it's not a mansion. pressure put on people to NOT look like "millionaires"

audience: i'm a bloody european socialist (applause) - the way we see it is not that you give to your community b/c it trickles down to you but b/c it is your duty to your fellow and it is a completely different story, you're not expecting anything in return.

applause

==External Links==

* [http://coffeeandink.livejournal.com/607389.html Notes from Coffee and Ink]

[[Category:WisCon 30 Panels]]

Literary History of Women in Science Fiction (WisCon 30 Panels)

2006-11-21T01:23:38Z

71.232.117.128: bulleted

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== Panelists ==

[[Justine Larbalestier]], [[Brian Attebery]], [[Janice Marie Bogstad]], [[Andrea Hairston|Andrea D. Hairston]], [[Pamela Sargent]]

== External links ==

* [http://coffeeandink.livejournal.com/635580.html Panel transcript] by coffeeandink on LiveJournal.

[[category:WisCon 30 Panels]]

Feminist Romance (WisCon 30 Panel)

2006-11-21T01:20:38Z

71.232.117.128: fixed category link

Feminist Romance
Writing SF&F: The Business•Capitol B• Saturday, 4:00-5:15 p.m.

First off, is there such a thing and how would it be accurately portrayed? Very often romances in sf/f short stories and novels follow very traditional patriarchal patterns, even when fairly feminist individuals are writing. What does a feminist romantic storyline look like? Why don’t we see these more often? How can writers who like to think of themselves as feminist avoid falling back on the old standbys without looking either unrealistic or like they are pushing a "message"?

M: Jennifer Stevenson, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Emma Bull, Stephanie Burgis, Cynthia Gonsalves, Lyda A. Morehouse

==External Links==

* [http://coffeeandink.livejournal.com/640707.html Notes at Coffee and Ink]
* [http://oyceter.livejournal.com/441372.html Notes at Oycester]

[[Category:WisCon 30 Panels]]

Feminist Romance (WisCon 30 Panel)

2006-11-21T01:20:25Z

71.232.117.128: added basic info

WisCon 30

2006-11-21T01:18:55Z

71.232.117.128: /* Saturday May 27 */ added feminist romance

* multiple reports at the [http://community.livejournal.com/wiscon/ WisCon LiveJournal Community] @ http://community.livejournal.com/wiscon/

'''*T*''' -- partial transcript available

==Friday May 26==
* [[Curse Words and Other Ways to Tell It's Not a Children's Book (WisCon 30 Panel)|Curse Words and Other Ways to Tell It's Not a Children's Book]] (#2, 10-1115am)
* [[Books You Bounce Off Of (WisCon 30 Panel)|Books You Bounce Off Of]] (#3, 10-1115am)
* [[Two Different Species? (WisCon 30 Panel)|Two Different Species?]] (#4, 10-1115am)
* [[Does Hard SF Have to Involve Metal? (WisCon 30 Panel)|Does Hard SF Have to Involve Metal?]] (#5, 10-1115am)
* [[Culture Shock! (WisCon 30 Panel)|Culture Shock!]] (#12, 1-215pm)
* [[Feminist SF/F Jeopardy (WisCon 30 Panel)|Feminist SF/F Jeopardy]] (#13, 1-215pm)
* [[Láadan vs tlhIngan Hol (WisCon 30 Panel)|Láadan vs tlhIngan Hol]]: Differential Diffusion of Created Languages (#15, 1-215pm) '''*T*'''
* [[Sex and the Believable Alien (WisCon 30 Panel)|Sex and the Believeable Alien]] (#16, 1-215pm)
* [[More Wisps from Harry's Wake (WisCon 30 Panel)|More Wisps from Harry's Wake, Recent Children's Fantasy]] (#17, 1-215pm)
* [[Dark Fantasy (WisCon 30 Panel)|Dark Fantasy]] (#18, 1-215pm)
* [[Opening Ceremonies (WisCon 30 Event)|Opening Ceremonies]] (#36, 730-830pm)
* [[Women's vs. Men's Magic in Fantasy (WisCon 30 Panel)|Women's vs. Men's Magic in Fantasy]] (#38, 845-10pm)
* [[Pick one! Both/And in an Either/Or World (WisCon 30 Panel)|Pick one! Both/And in an Either/Or World]] (#39, 845-10pm)
* [[Trailer Trash and Unrighteous Rebels (WisCon 30 Panel)|Trailer Trash and Unrighteous Rebels: Human Beings in Space]] (#43, 845-10pm)
* [[Feminist Think Tanks (WisCon 30 Panel)|What Would a Feminist Think Tank Look Like?]] (#44, 845-10pm) '''*T*'''
* [[Karen Axness Panel (WisCon 30 Panel)|The Karen Axness Panel: Women Authors You Should Be Reading]] (#45, 845-10pm)
* [[Feminist Fairy Tales (WisCon 30 Panel)|Feminist Fairy Tales]] (#53, 1015-1130pm)
* [[Something About Alice (WisCon 30 Panel)|There's Something About Alice: The Life, Fiction, and Fictional Life of James Tiptree, Jr.]] (#54, 1015-1130pm)
* [[Bad Girls (WisCon 30 Panel)|What does it take to be a bad girl anymore?]] (#55, 1015-1130pm)
* [[Fat, Feminism, and Fandom (WisCon 30 Panel)|Fat, Feminism, and Fandom]] (#57, 1015-1130pm)
* [[Resurrecting the Spanish Influenza (WisCon 30 Panel)|Resurrecting the Spanish Influenza]] (#58, 1015-1130pm)
* [[Gender in Gaming (WisCon 30 Panel)|Gender in Gaming]] (#59, 1015-1130pm) '''*T*'''

==Saturday May 27==

* Wiki Workshop @ WisCon (unscheduled programming, 730-830am)
* [[Conveying the Post-Human in Humanist Terms (WisCon 30 Panel)|Conveying the Post-Human in Humanist Terms]] (#89, 1-215pm)
* [[An Agent's Point of View (WisCon 30 Panel)|An Agent's Point of View]] (#90, 1-215pm)
* [[Myth of Class Mobility? (WisCon 30 Panel)|Myth of Class Mobility?]] (#91, 1-215pm) '''*T*'''
* [[Food in SF/F (WisCon 30 Panel)|Food in SF/F]] (#92, 1-215pm)
* [[Autism, Asperger's, and Fandom (WisCon 30 Panel)|Autism, Asperger's, and Fandom]] (#93, 1-215pm)
* [[Jane Yolen as Editor (WisCon 30 Panel)|Jane Yolen as Editor]] (#95, 1-215pm)
* [[The Borderlands of Science (WisCon 30 Panel)|The Borderlands of Science]] (#96, 1-215pm)
* [[Science, Hard Science Fiction, and Women (WisCon 30 Panel)|Science, Hard Science Fiction, and Women]] (#104, 230-345pm)
* [[Animal, Human, Alien (WisCon 30 Panel)|Animal, Human, Alien]] (#106, 230-345pm) '''*T*'''
* [[Feminist Fiction Is So Five Minutes Ago (WisCon 30 Panel)|Feminist Fiction Is So Five Minutes Ago]] (#107, 230-345pm)
* [[Literary History of Women in Science Fiction (WisCon 30 Panels)|Literary History of Women in Science Fiction]] (#108, 230-345pm)
* [[Feminist Romance (WisCon 30 Panel)|Feminist romance]] (4-515pm)
* [[Cultural Appropriation (WisCon 30 Panel)|Cultural Appropriation & Writing Fantasy Outside Western Tradition]] (#132, 9-1015pm)
* [[Who Wants a Revolution? Will a Reform Do? (WisCon 30 Panels)|Who Wants a Revolution? Will a Reform Do?]] (#134, 9-1015pm) '''*T*'''
* [[The Librarian Hero: Real and Imagined (WisCon 30 Panel)|The Librarian Hero: Real and Imagined]] (#151, 1030-1145pm)

==Sunday May 28==

* Wiki Workshop @ WisCon (7:30am-8:30am in computer lab area)
* [[Cruise, Flirt, Pick-Up and Other Sexual-Social Strategies (WisCon 30 Panel)|Cruise, Flirt, Pick-Up and Other Sexual-Social Strategies]] (#170, 10-1115am)
* [[All About the Benjamins (WisCon 30 Panel)|All About the Benjamins]] (#171, 10-1115am)
* [[Is Reading Feminist SF a Theory Building Activity? (WisCon 30 Panel)|Is Reading Feminist SF a Theory Building Activity?]] (#173, 10-1115am) '''*T*'''
* [[Fundamentals of Feminism (WisCon 30 Panel)|Fundamentals of Feminism]] (#175, 10-1115am)
* [[The Muse Is Never Monogamous]] (#195, 1-215pm)
* [[Pushing the Envelope (WisCon 30 Panel)|Pushing the Envelope]] (#189, 1-215pm)
* [[The Death of the Panel (WisCon 30 Panel)|The Death of the Panel]] (#203, 230-345pm)
* [[Science Fiction from the (so-called) Third World (WisCon 30 Panel)|Science Fiction from the (so-called) Third World]] (#204, 230-345pm) '''*T*'''
* [[Coming Out (WisCon 30 Panel)|Coming Out]] (#205, 230-345pm)
* [[Joanna Russ Interview with Chip Delany (WisCon 30 Event)|Joanna Russ Interview with Chip Delany]] (#220, 4-515pm) '''*T*'''
* [[Kate Wilhelm Guest of Honor Speech]] (#229, 830-10pm) '''*T*'''
* [[Jane Yolen Guest of Honor Speech]] (#229, 830-10pm) '''*T*'''
* [[Carl Brandon Society Awards Ceremony (2006)]] (#229, 830-10pm) '''*T*'''
* [[Tiptree Awards Ceremony (2006)]] (#229, 830-10pm) '''*T*'''
* [[The Wages of Trash (WisCon 30 Panel)|The Wages of Trash]] (10-1115pm)
* [[Uncomfortable Politics in Feminist Writing (WisCon 30 Panel)|Uncomfortable Politics in Feminist Writing]] (#242, 11:30pm-12:45am) '''*T*'''

==Monday May 29==

* Wiki Workshop @ WisCon (7:30am-8:30am in computer lab area)
* [[Military Women: Past, Present, Future (WisCon 30 Panel)|Military Women: Past, Present, Future]] (#245, 830-945am) '''*T*'''
* [[Is the US a dictatorship yet? (WisCon 30 Panel)|Is the US a dictatorship yet?]] (#246, 10-1115am)
* [[Finding the Queers (WisCon 30 Panel)|Finding the Queers]]: A GLBT Book Slam (#255, 10-1115am) '''*T*'''

=categories & tags=

[[category:2006 Events]] [[category:WisCon]] [[category:WisCon 30]]

Abortion in SF

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SF About Abortion

* [[Flynn Connolly]], [[The Rising of the Moon]] (1993) (Future Ireland; abortion is still illegal)

* [[Elizabeth DeVos]]. "Out of the Fire" (in Imagination Fully Dilated: Science Fiction, ed. by Robert Kruger & Patrick Swenson) (a phoenix decides not to die; right-to-lifers are concerned that the phoenix will never be reborn)
* [[Lucy Ferriss]]. ''The Misconceivers'' (all about future abortionists)
* [[Esther M. Friesner]]. "A Birthday" (short story, dystopian)
* Joan Givner. ''Half Known Lives'' (2001) (anti-choice male politician is impregnated)
* [[Robert J. Howe]]. "Miscarriage of Justice" (in Salon.com, 2004 March 24) (punishment for abortion is a "life sentence of hard labor")
* [[Marie Jakober]]. ''[[Even the Stones]]'' (originally published as ''High Kamilan'') (abortion scene at beginning of novel; abortion turns out to have been an important aspect of plot)
* [[Thomas F. Monteleone]]. "Breath's a Ware That Will Not Keep" (in Dystopian Visions, edited by Roger Elwood (Prentice Hall: 1975).
* [[Rachel Cosgrove Payes]]. "Come Take a Dip with Me in the Genetic Pool" (in Dystopian Visions, edited by Roger Elwood (Prentice Hall: 1975).
* [[Josephine Saxton]]. "[[Big Operation on Altair Three]]" (in Jen Green & Sarah Lefanu, editors, Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind, The Women's Press: 1985) (In a hyper-real world of future advertising, a real live surgery is performed to sell cars ... )
* [[Raccoona Sheldon]]. "Morality Meat" (in Jen Green & Sarah Lefanu, editors, Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind, The Women's Press: 1985) (What happens to all the extra babies in a near-future US when abortion has been outlawed?)
* [[Rick Lawler]], editor. ''Abortion Stories: Fiction on Fire'' (1992) (23 stories about abortion; many are SF)
* "[[Battlestar Galactica (2004 television series)|Battlestar Galactica]]" episodes "Epiphanies" (forced abortion) and "The Captain's Hand" (abortion is outlawed with the intent of increasing the population)
* "[[Rain Without Thunder]]" (1993) (dir. Gary Bennett) (a future US in which abortion has been outlawed)

see: [[Birth Control]]

[[category:Reading & Media Lists]]

List of fictional female scientists in SF

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* Dr. Susan Calvin in Asimov's Foundation series
* ''[[Life]]'' by [[Gwyneth Jones]] ("Dr. Anna Senoz")
* Dr. Dorcas Rae in ''[[Gaia's Toys]]'' by [[Rebecca Ore]]
* Dr. Anna Quibler in ''[[Forty Signs of Rain]]'' by [[Kim Stanley Robinson]]
* ''[[The Clewiston Test]]'' by [[Kate Wilhelm]]
* Dr. Antonia Almiramez (Ann, Toni) in [[Dance of Knives]] by [[Donna McMahon]]
* [[Dana Scully]] in "[[The X-Files]]"
* Diana Skouris in "[[The 4400]]"
* Professor Zephyr Duquesne, cultural archeologist in "Natural History" by Justina Robson

==Inventors==

* ''Tinker'' by [[Wen Spencer]]
* ''Ecotopia Emerging'' by [[Ernest Callenbach]] (young girl invents efficient solar battery & does not patent it, distributing it freely instead)
* Violet Baudelaire in the "Series of Unfortunate Events" by Lemony Snicket

[[category:Reading & Media Lists]]

Feminist SF Wiki:Site support

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Feminist SF Wiki:Site support

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How very exciting. You want to give us money? We're happy to take it.

Contact webmistress at feministsf.org and say "donations" in the subject line. When have donations totaling > $0 we will figure out how to keep records and make everything open and accountable.

Or, use this handy button!

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Feminist SF Wiki:Site support

2006-10-14T23:26:55Z

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How very exciting. You want to give us money? We're happy to take it.

Contact webmistress at feministsf.org and say "donations" in the subject line. When have donations totaling > $0 we will figure out how to keep records and make everything open and accountable.

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Harlan Ellison breast grabbing incident (2006)

2006-10-14T21:55:33Z

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[[Harlan Ellison]] grabbed [[Connie Willis]]' breast live on stage at a Hugo Awards ceremony. Widely perceived as offensive, including reportedly by Willis herself, Ellison contended throughout Fall of 2006 that the gesture was intended as a playful gesture in response to Willis' comment about his infantile behavior. At times he acknowledged that his behavior was boorish, but apparently felt that it was in keeping with his widespread reputation as "outspoken" and "obnoxious". However, fans thoroughly fisked the incident and his responses afterwards, and brought to light numerous other incidents of "obnoxious" behavior that reflected gender-specific targeting of inappropriate behavior.

Discussions and commentary at:
* [http://blogs.feministsf.net/?p=60 Feminist SF - The Blog] ("Yes, Harlan Ellison has always been a sexist creep - and he still is")
* [http://pnh.livejournal.com/25131.html Making Light - Patrick Nielsen Hayden]
* [http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/archives/2006_08.html#000395 Ben
Rosenbaum's open letter to Harlan Ellison]
* Harlan's "apologetic" comment (need link)

[[Category:Sexism Incidents & Controversies]]
[[Category:2006 Events]]

Harlan Ellison breast grabbing incident (2006)

2006-10-14T21:55:04Z

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[[Harlan Ellison]] grabbed [[Connie Willis]]' breast live on stage at an awards ceremony. Widely perceived as offensive, including reportedly by Willis herself, Ellison contended throughout Fall of 2006 that the gesture was intended as a playful gesture in response to Willis' comment about his infantile behavior. At times he acknowledged that his behavior was boorish, but apparently felt that it was in keeping with his widespread reputation as "outspoken" and "obnoxious". However, fans thoroughly fisked the incident and his responses afterwards, and brought to light numerous other incidents of "obnoxious" behavior that reflected gender-specific targeting of inappropriate behavior.

Discussions and commentary at:
* [http://blogs.feministsf.net/?p=60 Feminist SF - The Blog] ("Yes, Harlan Ellison has always been a sexist creep - and he still is")
* [http://pnh.livejournal.com/25131.html Making Light - Patrick Nielsen Hayden]
* [http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/archives/2006_08.html#000395 Ben
Rosenbaum's open letter to Harlan Ellison]
* Harlan's "apologetic" comment (need link)

[[Category:Sexism Incidents & Controversies]]
[[Category:2006 Events]]

Template:Spoiler warning

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Material below probably will include discussions or information that might be characterized as a "spoiler" by some.

Illicit Passage

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Novel by [[Alice Nunn]].

[[Category:Works]]

Illicit Passage

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Mother of all Witches

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A title given to various mythological female characters, including [[Lilith]], Hecate, Baba Yaga.

[[Category:Mythological Female Characters]]

Mother of all Witches

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A title given to various mythological female characters, including [[Lilith]], Hecate, Baba Yaga.

FSFblog communication guidelines

2006-10-14T21:37:20Z

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

==Goals==

# Provisionally, these guidelines should enable and facilitate communication, by providing standards relating to listening, respectfully hearing substantive points, and responding respectfully to substantive arguments. Basically, how to engage in conversation usefully.

# However, they also should deal with how to simultaneously engage in meta-analysis of the flow of discussion, so that you can see when inappropriate and nonproductive communication techniques are coming in -- including sexist or racist or elitist language or stances. Basically, how to see when a conversation is being derailed.

# Finally, the guidelines should include information about when and how to redirect a conversation to keep it flowing; or to cut it off. This should include information about when it is appropriate to bring up meta-analysis of the conversation -- not responding to a point, but pointing out some characteristic about how another person is arguing. Also, if not appropriate to engage in meta-analysis, how to direct back to appropriate channels. When is it better to do it "offline" in a private setting, and when is it better to engage a behavior publicly. Basically, how to heal or kill conversations.

''Other Thoughts'': How to protect yourself; how to protect others; how to teach someone else; how to recognize a teaching moment; how to not feel responsible for representing 100% of the time; how to engage in group conversation dynamics; etc.

===Prospective Uses===

* At the least, a guide for discussion on the feministsf.net forums -- blog, forums, wiki, and so on.
* Should be useful as rules for all discussion participants and moderators

==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

==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]]

[[Category:FSF Bloggers Working Group]]
[[Category:Communication Guidelines]]

Spoiler

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'''Spoilers''' are information about a text or a performance that can ruin the readers' surprise and/or enjoyment if the readers learn about them before they have reached the stage at which they should, or desire to become aware of this information.

For instance, revealing the twist ending to a movie, or the identity of the killer in a murder mystery, can spoil the audience's appreciation of the suspense in its first acquaintance with these stories.

In the context of a literary discussion, it is often necessary to reveal information that might "spoil" the plot for new audiences.

The concept of (plot) spoilers has been criticized for privileging plot over other elements of works, such as character development, imagery, writing, etc. Nevertheless, it is conventional in many discussion forums to include "spoiler warnings" to forestall the possibility of accidental exposure to spoilers.

[[Category:Communication Guidelines]]

Spoiler

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'''Spoilers''' are information about a text or a performance that can ruin the readers' surprise and/or enjoyment if the readers learn about them before they have reached the stage at which they should, or desire to become aware of this information.

For instance, revealing the twist ending to a movie, or the identity of the killer in a murder mystery, can spoil the audience's appreciation of the suspense in its first acquaintance with these stories.

In the context of a discussion of [[feminist SF]], it is often necessary to reveal information that might spoil new audiences.

'''Spoiler warnings''' can forestall the possibility of accidental exposure to spoilers.

[[Category:Glossary]]

Talk:Breastfeeding on LiveJournal

2006-10-14T21:29:40Z

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It would be great to see some of these icons here -- who has copies of them?

Harlan Ellison breast grabbing incident (2006)

2006-10-14T21:26:53Z

71.232.117.128:

[[Harlan Ellison]] grabbed [[Connie Willis]]' breast live on stage at an awards ceremony. Widely perceived as offensive, including reportedly by Willis herself, Ellison contended throughout Fall of 2006 that the gesture was intended as a playful gesture in response to Willis' comment about his infantile behavior. At times he acknowledged that his behavior was boorish, but apparently felt that it was in keeping with his widespread reputation as "outspoken" and "obnoxious". However, fans thoroughly fisked the incident and his responses afterwards, and brought to light numerous other incidents of "obnoxious" behavior that reflected gender-specific targeting of inappropriate behavior.

Discussions and commentary at:
* [http://blogs.feministsf.net/?p=60 Feminist SF - The Blog] ("Yes, Harlan Ellison has always been a sexist creep - and he still is")

[[Category:Sexism Incidents & Controversies]]
[[Category:2006 Events]]

Harlan Ellison breast grabbing incident (2006)

2006-10-14T21:25:21Z

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[[Harlan Ellison]] grabbed Connie Willis' breast live on stage at an awards ceremony. Widely perceived as offensive, including reportedly by Willis herself, Ellison contended throughout Fall of 2006 that the gesture was intended as a playful gesture in response to Willis' comment about his infantile behavior. At times he acknowledged that his behavior was boorish, but apparently felt that it was in keeping with his widespread reputation as "outspoken" and "obnoxious". However, fans thoroughly fisked the incident and his responses afterwards, and brought to light numerous other incidents of "obnoxious" behavior that reflected gender-specific targeting of inappropriate behavior.

[[Category:Sexism Incidents & Controversies]]
[[Category:2006 Events]]

Harlan Ellison breast grabbing incident (2006)

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Feminist SF timeline

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71.232.117.128: /* The Gay Nineties: Queer Identity & Default Feminism (1991 onward) */

A Brief History of Feminist SF and Women in SF

{{spoiler}}

==BF (Before Frankenstein)==

SF per se did not exist, but many of the stories that were told, and eventually published, relied on fantastical premises of one sort or another, often including magical, religious, and mythical imagery, beings or events. The imagined civilization, whether it be utopian, the Kingdom of Heaven, or otherwise, cropped up here and there.

* [[1405]] [[Christine de Pizan]], [[The Book of the City of Ladies]]
* [[1666]] [[Margaret Cavendish]], [[The Blazing World]]
* [[1762]] [[Sarah Scott]], [[A Description of Millennium Hall]]
* [[1794]] [[Ann Radcliffe]], [[The Mysteries of Udolpho]] (quintessential gothic novel; supernatural events ultimately shown to be non-supernatural)
* [[1798]]; rev. [[1803]] [[Jane Austen]], [[Northanger Abbey]] (a satirical gothic novel)

==Nineteenth Century CE: After Frankenstein (1818-1919)==

The early 19th century formats were still shaping and being developed. [[Gothic]] novels remained popular, with supernatural or possibly supernatural elements. Mary Shelley's [[Frankenstein]] emerged in part from this tradition.

In the mid-later part of the 19th century, a wide variety of [[utopian]] stories emerged from social and utopian movements. A conscious feminism picked up on many of the themes of the suffragettes, and produced specifically gender-based attacks on the patriarchy, positing that a female society might be wiser, more peaceful, more humane.

The late-19th century fascination with the supernatural led to many supernatural and [[ghost stories]]; relatedly, the themes in [[gothic]] novels continued to often include supernatural aspects.

The late 19th and early 20th century saw a suffragette [[backlash]] in literature: novels in which [[humorless]] women take over the world, for good or for ill; valiant men with a sense of humor often took it right back to the satisfaction of both sexes.

* [[1818]] [[Mary Shelley]], [[Frankenstein]]
* [[1827]] [[Jane Webb Loudon]], [[The Mummy!: A Tale of the Twentieth Century]]

* [[1872]] [[J. Sheridan Le Fanu]], [["Carmilla"]] (an early, possibly the first, lesbian vampire story published)
* [[1880-81]] [[Mary E. Bradley]] publishes [[Mizora: A Prophecy]]
* [[1892]] [[Charlotte Perkins Gilman]] publishes "[[The Yellow Wallpaper]]" turning the ghost story on its head in an early feminist critique of what [[Betty Friedan]] later named "the feminine mystique".

* [[1915]] [[Charlotte Perkins Gilman]] publishes [[Herland]]
* [[1918]] [[Frances Stevens]] publishes [[Citadel of Fear]]
* [[1918]] [[Gertrude Franklin Atherton]] publishes [[The White Morning]]

==The 20th Century: After the Great War (1920-1945)==
The pulp era began, and brought with it women writers, often writing [[pseudonymously]] or under [[gender-ambiguous names]], such as [[C.L. Moore]].

Strong socialist and fascist currents in reaction to economic crises in Europe and North America generated a number of radical critiques of fascism and totalitarianism, including several important works from female writers.

* [[1926]] [[Thea von Harbou]] publishes [[Metropolis]]
* [[1926]] [[Sylvia Townsend Warner]] publishes [[Lolly Willowes]]
* [[1928]] [[Virginia Woolf]] publishes [[Orlando]]
* [[1935]] [[Katharine Burdekin]] publishes [[The End of This Day's Business]]
* [[1940]] [[Karin Boye]] publishes [[Kallocain]]
* [[1941]] First appearance of [[Wonder Woman]], one of the first female [[superheroes]]

==The 20th Century: After WW2 (1945-1967)==
SF popularity continues to grow, and male and female writers enter the field in increasing numbers. Women still frequently write with pseudonyms or gender-ambiguous names, or pseudonymously with male writers using a male pseudonym.

In US SF, anxieties over nuclear war, Communism, and the changing roles of women during and after WW2 sometimes played out in gender-related SF. A number of "[[war of the sexes]]" stories appeared, often depicting the society run by women as a hive-like metaphor for socialism. As in the suffragette backlash, the societies run by women were authoritarian, humorless, dull, and lacked creative fire and ingenuity, and they were often static or even dying societies.

Prominent new writers in the '40s include [[Judith Merril]], [[Leigh Brackett]] and [[Miriam Allen deFord]].

* 1948 [[Judith Merril]] publishes [["That Only a Mother"]]
* 1948 [[Shirley Jackson]] publishes [["The Lottery"]]
* 1948 [[Lisa Ben]] publishes [["New Year's Day"]], the first modern "gay identity" SF story
* 1948 [[Wilmar Shiras]] publishes [["In Hiding"]], which was later developed into a novel, ''[[Children of the Atom]]'' (1953)

Prominent new women writers in the '50s include [[Katharine MacLean]], [[Margaret St. Clair]], [[Zenna Henderson]], and [[Andre Norton]].

* 1950 [[Judith Merril]] publishes ''[[Shadow on the Hearth]]''
* 1952 [[Zenna Henderson]] begins publishing [[The People]] series
* 1953 [[Judith Merril]] published [[Daughters of Earth]]
* 1954 "[[Femizine]]" An "all female" SF fan zine created in England, later revealed to be a hoax.

Prominent new women writers in the '60s are almost too many to name here but a selection include: [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]], [[Rosel George Brown]], [[Sonya Dorman]], [[Carol Emshwiller]], [[Sylvia Louise Engdahl]], [[Phyllis Gotlieb]], [[Madeleine L'Engle]], [[Ursula K. Le Guin]], [[Anne McCaffrey]], [[Naomi Mitchison]], [[Joanna Russ]], [[James Tiptree, Jr.]], [[Kate Wilhelm]], and many others. Plus, [[Samuel R. Delany]].

* [[1960]] [[Theodore Sturgeon]] publishes ''[[Venus Plus X]]''
* [[1961]] [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]] publishes ''[[The Door Through Space]]''
* [[1962]] [[Naomi Mitchison]] publishes ''[[Memoirs of a Spacewoman]]''
* [[1962]] [[Madeleine L'Engle]] publishes ''[[A Wrinkle in Time]]''
* [[1962]] [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]] publishes ''[[Planet Savers]]'', first novel in the [[Darkover]] series
* [[1966]] [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] publishes her first two novels, ''[[Rocannon's World]]'' and ''[[Planet of Exile]]''
* [[1966]] [[Rosel George Brown]] publishes ''[[Sibyl Sue Blue]]''
* [[1967]] [[Pamela Zoline]]'s publishes her story [["The Heat Death of the Universe"]] in Michael Moorcock's ''New Worlds''
* [[1967]] [[Anna Kavan]] publishes ''[[Ice]]''
* [[1967]] Harlan Ellison's publishes ''[[Dangerous Visions]]'', a ground-breaking anthology including work by Delany, Emshwiller, and Sturgeon

==The Golden Age of Feminist SF (1968-1979) ==

[[Lesbian separatism]] and [[Gay Liberation]] made strong impacts on feminist SF, and the developing world of [[fanfic]]. Many more women entered the field. A feminist backlash became prominent, focusing less on hive-like socialist societies and more on lesbianism and male fears of sexual redundancy.

* [[1968]] [[Joanna Russ]] publishes [[Picnic on Paradise]]
* [[1968]] [[Uhura|Lt. Uhura]] and Captain Kirk debut the first interracial kiss on American TV in "Plato's Stepchildren", "[[Star Trek]]" Season 3
* [[1968]] [[Samuel R. Delany]] publishes [[Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand]], a major novel with a gay protagonist
* [[1968]] [[Anne McCaffrey]] becomes the first woman to win a [[Hugo Award]] for fiction, for the novella "[[Weyr Search]]", which was later incorporated into the novel ''[[Dragonflight]]''
* [[1969]] [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] publishes [[The Left Hand of Darkness]]
* [[1971]] [[Monique Wittig]] publishes [[Les Guérillères]]
* [[1971]] [[Dorothy Bryant]] publishes [[The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You]], which stylistically echoes late 19th century threads of metaphoric fiction and paves the way for [[New Age fiction]]
* [[1972]] [[Joanna Russ]] publishes "[[When It Changed]]"
* [[1973] [[James Tiptree, Jr.]] publishes "[[The Girl Who Was Plugged In]]"
* [[1974]] [[Suzy McKee Charnas]] publishes [[Walk to the End of the World]], first in the [[Holdfast Series]]
* [[1974]] [[Pamela Sargent]] publishes [[Women of Wonder: Science Fiction Stories by Women about Women]], the first anthology dedicated to women in SF
* [[1974]] [[Diane Marchant]] publishes the first known Star Trek slash, "A Fragment Out of Time," an oblique Kirk/Spock story
* [[1975]] [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]] publishes [[The Heritage of Hastur]]
* [[1975]] [[Tanith Lee]] publishes [[The Birthgrave]]
* [[1975]] [[Naomi Mitchison]] publishes [[Solution Three]]
* [[1975]] [[Joanna Russ]] publishes [[The Female Man]]
* [[1975]] The "[[Women in Science Fiction Symposium|Women in Science Fiction]]" symposium, edited by [[Jeffrey D. Smith]], is published in [[Khatru]] 3&4
* [[1975]] Robert Silverberg describes [[James Tiptree, Jr.]]'s writing as "ineluctibly masculine" in the introduction to [[Warm Worlds and Otherwise]], apparently attempting to dispel rumors that Tiptree is female
* [[1976]] [[Susan Wood]] sets up a feminist panel at [[MidAmericon]], apparently the first panel on "women and science fiction", which leads ultimately to the founding of [[A Women's Apa]].
* [[1976]] [[Samuel R. Delany]] publishes [[Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia]]
* [[1976]] [[Marge Piercy]] publishes [[Woman on the Edge of Time]]
* [[1976]] [[Carol Seajay]] begins [[Feminist Bookstore News]], a selection tool geared toward women's bookstores; an SF column begins -- ? when. [[Susanna Sturgis]] is the long-time SF columnist.
* [[1977]] The first [[WisCon]] is held in Madison, Wisconsin.
* [[1977]] an all-women's issue of [[Analog]] published
* [[1978]] A "room of our own" opened at Westercon in Vancouver by [[Susan Wood]], as a women's space
* [[1978]] E.M. Broner publishes [[A Weave of Women]]
* [[1978]] Vonda McIntyre publishes [[Dreamsnake]]
* [[1979]] The gay/lesbian (eventually glbt) bookstore "[[A Different Light]]" opens, naming itself after [[Elizabeth A. Lynn]]'s novel of the same name.
* [[1979]] Octavia Butler publishes [[Kindred]]
* [[1979]] Sally Miller Gearheart publishes [[The Wanderground]]
* [[1979]] [[Ridley Scott]]'s [[Alien]] features [[Ellen Ripley]], the first significant female action hero in a major American film series

==The Eighties: Cyberpunk & "Post-Feminism" (1980-1990)==

"I'll be a post-feminist in the post-patriarchy."

The [[feminist sex wars]] reach their peak in the 80s, not coincidentally at the same time that [[women's erotica]] is enjoying a boom. SF in general shows a much greater level of sexual explicitness, and [[fanfic]] gets naughty and needs a spanking.

[[Marion Zimmer Bradley]]'s [[The Mists of Avalon]] kicks off a new thread of novels portraying [[women's spirituality]] and goddess-based religions, ultimately feeding into the New Age fiction trend. [[The Mists of Avalon]] also initiated a popular trend of reenvisioning histories, myths, and iconic stories from feminist or subaltern perspectives.

Numerous women's presses and bookstores are founded in the 1970s with the collective energy of the feminist movement and lesbian separatists; lesbian & gay-themed lines, presses, and bookstores followed shortly thereafter.

The English-speaking world discovers magical realism, and numerous important new works are published or translated into English.

The bisexual, goth, androgynous, vampire thing picks up steam in the 80s.

* [[1980]] Octavia Butler publishes Wild Seed
* [[1980]] Elizabeth Lynn publishes Northern Girl
* 1980 Kate Wilhelm publishes Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

* 1981 Julian May publishes The Many Colored Lands (first in Pleiocene Cycle)
* 1981 New Victoria publishes WomanSpace: Future and Fantasy, Stories and Art by Women
* 1981 Elisabeth Vonarburg publishes La Silence de la Cite; translated into English in 1988 as The Silent City

* 1982 Tanith Lee publishes The Silver Metal Lover
* 1982 Smith College hosted a 3-week symposium on feminist speculative fiction

* [[1983]] [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]] publishes [[The Mists of Avalon]]
* Mary Gentle publishes Witchbreed
* [[1983]] [[Joanna Russ]] publishes [[How to Supress Women's Writing]]

* [[1984]] Suzette Haden Elgin publishes [[Native Tongue]]
* [[1984]] Marion Zimmer Bradley publishes [[Sword and Sorceress]], the first in a series of Bradley-edited anthologies in which many new writers got started, and a consistent source for stories about women (specifically, swordswomen and sorceresses).
* 1984 [[Kindred Spirits: An Anthology of Gay and Lesbian Science Fiction Stories]] Jeffrey M. Elliot publishes, with [[Alyson Press]], the first explicitly gay-lesbian themed SF anthology, reprinting GL stories from previous publications.

* [[1985]] [[Margaret Atwood]] publishes [[The Handmaid's Tale]], later made into a film and an opera

* [[1986]] Sigourney Weaver kicks ass in [[Aliens]] (dir., [[James Cameron]])
* [[1986]] Joan Slonczewski publishes [[A Door Into Ocean]]
* [[1986]] [[Gaylaxian Science Fiction Society]] formed

* [[1987]] [[Toni Morrison]] publishes [[Beloved]]
* 1987 Pamela Sargent publishes The Shore of Women
* 1987 Gwyneth Jones publishes Divine Endurance
* Octavia Butler publishes Dawn, first book of the [[Xenogenesis]] trilogy
* [[James Tiptree, Jr.]] (Alice Sheldon) dies, 1915-1987

* 1988 Carol Emshwiller publishes Carmen Dog
* 1988 C.J. Cherryh publishes Cyteen
* 1988 Sheri Tepper publishes The Gate to Women's Country
* [[Gaylaxicon]], the first GLB SF convention
* [[Lambda Literary Awards]] inaugurated, with a joint category for "mystery/sf"; first award given to a mystery.

==The Gay Nineties: Queer Identity & Default Feminism (1991 onward)==

Explicitly feminist themes in SF continued to be explored in feministSF, but the true triumph of the [[Secret Feminist Cabal]] is the acceptance of the goals and analyses of feminism in much other literature. Strong women characters have become a norm for male and female writers alike. Kick-ass woman heroes made a major splash on TV and film.

In the post-[[Feminist Sex Wars]] years, lesbian, feminist, and woman-centered erotica boomed, spawning many anthologies on every conceivable subject. And feministSF moved online, in all its forms: [[fanfic]], geeky websites, mailing lists, and the like.

* 1989 [[Susanna Sturgis]] publishes [[Memories and Visions: Women's Fantasy and Science Fiction]] anthology
* 1990 [[Susanna Sturgis]] publishes [[The Women Who Walk Through Fire: Women's Fantasy and Science Fiction, Vol.2]] anthology
* [[1991]] The creation of the [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award]] for SF or fantasy that explores and expands gender roles; [[Pat Murphy]] announced the creation at [[WisCon]].
* 1991 Lambda Literary Awards now split the lesbian mystery/sf category, and created a category for "Lesbian Science Fiction/Fantasy"; first Lambda for a lesbian fantasy/SF book, [[Jessica Amanda Salmonson]]'s anthology of glb supernatural fiction, [[What Did Miss Darrington See?]])

* 1991 Jewelle Gomez publishes The Gilda Stories; Marge Piercy publishes He, She and It; Rebecca Ore publishes The Illegal Rebirth of Billy the Kid

* [[1992]] [[Angela Carter]] dies
* [[1992]] [[Nicola Griffith]] publishes [[Ammonite]]
* [[1992]] [[Sally Potter]] directs [[Orlando (film)|"Orlando"]]

* [[1993]] [[The X-Files]] reinvents the buddy film, debuting the skeptical scientific Scully playing straight man to Mulder's flirty believer; the two remain (mostly) platonic peers and equals for some half-dozen years into the series. The X-Files also accounts for a tremendous surge in FanFic which moved online in vast numbers.
* [[1993]] [[Pam Keesey]] publishes Daughters of Darkness: Lesbian Vampire Stories, one of the first explicitly lesbian anthologies of fantasy/horror, tapping into the lesbian vampire zeitgeist (they're lesbian! they're vampires!)

* [[1994]] First website on feminist SF (ultimately becoming http://feministSF.org ).
* 1994 Nancy Kress publishes Beggars in Spain; Kathleen Ann Goonan publishes Queen City Jazz; Maureen McHugh publishes Half the Day Is Night

* [[1995]] "[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]" series premiere airs in the US (1995 Sept. 9; UK airdate, 1996 Sept. 8)
* 1995 Nancy Springer publishes Larque on the Wing

* [[1996]] (??) [[Circlet Press]] first publication of erotic, feminist SF, a chapbook called [[Telepaths Don't Need Safewords]]

* [[1997]] [[Judith Merril]] dies
* [[1997]] [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]] series premiere in the US

* [[1998]] The [[Gaylactic Network]] establishes the [[Spectrum Awards]] "to honor works in science fiction, fantasy and horror which include positive explorations of gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered characters, themes, or issues."
* [[1998]] - The [[Secret Feminist Cabal]] goes public by publishing the Tiptree Anthology, [[Flying Cups and Saucers]], illustrated by [[Freddie Baer]]
* [[1998]] [[Nalo Hopkinson]] publishes Brown Girl in the Ring

* [[1999]] [[FemSpec]] founded
* [[1999]] [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]] dies
* [[1999]] [[Naomi Mitchison]] dies

* [[2000]] [[Broad Universe]] founded to promote women writers of SF/F/H
* [[2000]] [[Feminist Bookstore News]] shuts down after a 25-year run, during which it saw the peak and then eventual demise of many feminist presses and bookstores.

* [[2002]] [[Whileaway LiveJournal community]] began, 2002 June 26

* [[2003]] [[Monique Wittig]] died

* [[2006]] [[Octavia Butler]] died
* [[2006]] feministSF wiki began
* [[2006]] [[WisCon]] 30 year anniversary!

* [[2006]] [[Breastfeeding on LiveJournal|LiveJournal BreastFeeding Icon Controversy]]
* [[2006]] [[Harlan Ellison Breast Grab Incident|"BoobGate"]]: [[Harlan Ellison]] made a boob of himself by acting like a baby on stage, making a grab at [[Connie Willis]]' tit.

== Sources & External Links ==

* [[User:Lquilter|Laura Quilter]], 2001-2006, A Brief History of Feminist SF/F and Women in SF/F, available at http://feministsf.org/community/history.html

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A Brief History of Feminist SF and Women in SF

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==BF (Before Frankenstein)==

SF per se did not exist, but many of the stories that were told, and eventually published, relied on fantastical premises of one sort or another, often including magical, religious, and mythical imagery, beings or events. The imagined civilization, whether it be utopian, the Kingdom of Heaven, or otherwise, cropped up here and there.

* [[1405]] [[Christine de Pizan]], [[The Book of the City of Ladies]]
* [[1666]] [[Margaret Cavendish]], [[The Blazing World]]
* [[1762]] [[Sarah Scott]], [[A Description of Millennium Hall]]
* [[1794]] [[Ann Radcliffe]], [[The Mysteries of Udolpho]] (quintessential gothic novel; supernatural events ultimately shown to be non-supernatural)
* [[1798]]; rev. [[1803]] [[Jane Austen]], [[Northanger Abbey]] (a satirical gothic novel)

==Nineteenth Century CE: After Frankenstein (1818-1919)==

The early 19th century formats were still shaping and being developed. [[Gothic]] novels remained popular, with supernatural or possibly supernatural elements. Mary Shelley's [[Frankenstein]] emerged in part from this tradition.

In the mid-later part of the 19th century, a wide variety of [[utopian]] stories emerged from social and utopian movements. A conscious feminism picked up on many of the themes of the suffragettes, and produced specifically gender-based attacks on the patriarchy, positing that a female society might be wiser, more peaceful, more humane.

The late-19th century fascination with the supernatural led to many supernatural and [[ghost stories]]; relatedly, the themes in [[gothic]] novels continued to often include supernatural aspects.

The late 19th and early 20th century saw a suffragette [[backlash]] in literature: novels in which [[humorless]] women take over the world, for good or for ill; valiant men with a sense of humor often took it right back to the satisfaction of both sexes.

* [[1818]] [[Mary Shelley]], [[Frankenstein]]
* [[1827]] [[Jane Webb Loudon]], [[The Mummy!: A Tale of the Twentieth Century]]

* [[1872]] [[J. Sheridan Le Fanu]], [["Carmilla"]] (an early, possibly the first, lesbian vampire story published)
* [[1880-81]] [[Mary E. Bradley]] publishes [[Mizora: A Prophecy]]
* [[1892]] [[Charlotte Perkins Gilman]] publishes "[[The Yellow Wallpaper]]" turning the ghost story on its head in an early feminist critique of what [[Betty Friedan]] later named "the feminine mystique".

* [[1915]] [[Charlotte Perkins Gilman]] publishes [[Herland]]
* [[1918]] [[Frances Stevens]] publishes [[Citadel of Fear]]
* [[1918]] [[Gertrude Franklin Atherton]] publishes [[The White Morning]]

==The 20th Century: After the Great War (1920-1945)==
The pulp era began, and brought with it women writers, often writing [[pseudonymously]] or under [[gender-ambiguous names]], such as [[C.L. Moore]].

Strong socialist and fascist currents in reaction to economic crises in Europe and North America generated a number of radical critiques of fascism and totalitarianism, including several important works from female writers.

* [[1926]] [[Thea von Harbou]] publishes [[Metropolis]]
* [[1926]] [[Sylvia Townsend Warner]] publishes [[Lolly Willowes]]
* [[1928]] [[Virginia Woolf]] publishes [[Orlando]]
* [[1935]] [[Katharine Burdekin]] publishes [[The End of This Day's Business]]
* [[1940]] [[Karin Boye]] publishes [[Kallocain]]
* [[1941]] First appearance of [[Wonder Woman]], one of the first female [[superheroes]]

==The 20th Century: After WW2 (1945-1967)==
SF popularity continues to grow, and male and female writers enter the field in increasing numbers. Women still frequently write with pseudonyms or gender-ambiguous names, or pseudonymously with male writers using a male pseudonym.

In US SF, anxieties over nuclear war, Communism, and the changing roles of women during and after WW2 sometimes played out in gender-related SF. A number of "[[war of the sexes]]" stories appeared, often depicting the society run by women as a hive-like metaphor for socialism. As in the suffragette backlash, the societies run by women were authoritarian, humorless, dull, and lacked creative fire and ingenuity, and they were often static or even dying societies.

Prominent new writers in the '40s include [[Judith Merril]], [[Leigh Brackett]] and [[Miriam Allen deFord]].

* 1948 [[Judith Merril]] publishes [["That Only a Mother"]]
* 1948 [[Shirley Jackson]] publishes [["The Lottery"]]
* 1948 [[Lisa Ben]] publishes [["New Year's Day"]], the first modern "gay identity" SF story
* 1948 [[Wilmar Shiras]] publishes [["In Hiding"]], which was later developed into a novel, ''[[Children of the Atom]]'' (1953)

Prominent new women writers in the '50s include [[Katharine MacLean]], [[Margaret St. Clair]], [[Zenna Henderson]], and [[Andre Norton]].

* 1950 [[Judith Merril]] publishes ''[[Shadow on the Hearth]]''
* 1952 [[Zenna Henderson]] begins publishing [[The People]] series
* 1953 [[Judith Merril]] published [[Daughters of Earth]]
* 1954 "[[Femizine]]" An "all female" SF fan zine created in England, later revealed to be a hoax.

Prominent new women writers in the '60s are almost too many to name here but a selection include: [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]], [[Rosel George Brown]], [[Sonya Dorman]], [[Carol Emshwiller]], [[Sylvia Louise Engdahl]], [[Phyllis Gotlieb]], [[Madeleine L'Engle]], [[Ursula K. Le Guin]], [[Anne McCaffrey]], [[Naomi Mitchison]], [[Joanna Russ]], [[James Tiptree, Jr.]], [[Kate Wilhelm]], and many others. Plus, [[Samuel R. Delany]].

* [[1960]] [[Theodore Sturgeon]] publishes ''[[Venus Plus X]]''
* [[1961]] [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]] publishes ''[[The Door Through Space]]''
* [[1962]] [[Naomi Mitchison]] publishes ''[[Memoirs of a Spacewoman]]''
* [[1962]] [[Madeleine L'Engle]] publishes ''[[A Wrinkle in Time]]''
* [[1962]] [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]] publishes ''[[Planet Savers]]'', first novel in the [[Darkover]] series
* [[1966]] [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] publishes her first two novels, ''[[Rocannon's World]]'' and ''[[Planet of Exile]]''
* [[1966]] [[Rosel George Brown]] publishes ''[[Sibyl Sue Blue]]''
* [[1967]] [[Pamela Zoline]]'s publishes her story [["The Heat Death of the Universe"]] in Michael Moorcock's ''New Worlds''
* [[1967]] [[Anna Kavan]] publishes ''[[Ice]]''
* [[1967]] Harlan Ellison's publishes ''[[Dangerous Visions]]'', a ground-breaking anthology including work by Delany, Emshwiller, and Sturgeon

==The Golden Age of Feminist SF (1968-1979) ==

[[Lesbian separatism]] and [[Gay Liberation]] made strong impacts on feminist SF, and the developing world of [[fanfic]]. Many more women entered the field. A feminist backlash became prominent, focusing less on hive-like socialist societies and more on lesbianism and male fears of sexual redundancy.

* [[1968]] [[Joanna Russ]] publishes [[Picnic on Paradise]]
* [[1968]] [[Uhura|Lt. Uhura]] and Captain Kirk debut the first interracial kiss on American TV in "Plato's Stepchildren", "[[Star Trek]]" Season 3
* [[1968]] [[Samuel R. Delany]] publishes [[Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand]], a major novel with a gay protagonist
* [[1968]] [[Anne McCaffrey]] becomes the first woman to win a [[Hugo Award]] for fiction, for the novella "[[Weyr Search]]", which was later incorporated into the novel ''[[Dragonflight]]''
* [[1969]] [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] publishes [[The Left Hand of Darkness]]
* [[1971]] [[Monique Wittig]] publishes [[Les Guérillères]]
* [[1971]] [[Dorothy Bryant]] publishes [[The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You]], which stylistically echoes late 19th century threads of metaphoric fiction and paves the way for [[New Age fiction]]
* [[1972]] [[Joanna Russ]] publishes "[[When It Changed]]"
* [[1973] [[James Tiptree, Jr.]] publishes "[[The Girl Who Was Plugged In]]"
* [[1974]] [[Suzy McKee Charnas]] publishes [[Walk to the End of the World]], first in the [[Holdfast Series]]
* [[1974]] [[Pamela Sargent]] publishes [[Women of Wonder: Science Fiction Stories by Women about Women]], the first anthology dedicated to women in SF
* [[1974]] [[Diane Marchant]] publishes the first known Star Trek slash, "A Fragment Out of Time," an oblique Kirk/Spock story
* [[1975]] [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]] publishes [[The Heritage of Hastur]]
* [[1975]] [[Tanith Lee]] publishes [[The Birthgrave]]
* [[1975]] [[Naomi Mitchison]] publishes [[Solution Three]]
* [[1975]] [[Joanna Russ]] publishes [[The Female Man]]
* [[1975]] The "[[Women in Science Fiction Symposium|Women in Science Fiction]]" symposium, edited by [[Jeffrey D. Smith]], is published in [[Khatru]] 3&4
* [[1975]] Robert Silverberg describes [[James Tiptree, Jr.]]'s writing as "ineluctibly masculine" in the introduction to [[Warm Worlds and Otherwise]], apparently attempting to dispel rumors that Tiptree is female
* [[1976]] [[Susan Wood]] sets up a feminist panel at [[MidAmericon]], apparently the first panel on "women and science fiction", which leads ultimately to the founding of [[A Women's Apa]].
* [[1976]] [[Samuel R. Delany]] publishes [[Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia]]
* [[1976]] [[Marge Piercy]] publishes [[Woman on the Edge of Time]]
* [[1976]] [[Carol Seajay]] begins [[Feminist Bookstore News]], a selection tool geared toward women's bookstores; an SF column begins -- ? when. [[Susanna Sturgis]] is the long-time SF columnist.
* [[1977]] The first [[WisCon]] is held in Madison, Wisconsin.
* [[1977]] an all-women's issue of [[Analog]] published
* [[1978]] A "room of our own" opened at Westercon in Vancouver by [[Susan Wood]], as a women's space
* [[1978]] E.M. Broner publishes [[A Weave of Women]]
* [[1978]] Vonda McIntyre publishes [[Dreamsnake]]
* [[1979]] The gay/lesbian (eventually glbt) bookstore "[[A Different Light]]" opens, naming itself after [[Elizabeth A. Lynn]]'s novel of the same name.
* [[1979]] Octavia Butler publishes [[Kindred]]
* [[1979]] Sally Miller Gearheart publishes [[The Wanderground]]
* [[1979]] [[Ridley Scott]]'s [[Alien]] features [[Ellen Ripley]], the first significant female action hero in a major American film series

==The Eighties: Cyberpunk & "Post-Feminism" (1980-1990)==

"I'll be a post-feminist in the post-patriarchy."

The [[feminist sex wars]] reach their peak in the 80s, not coincidentally at the same time that [[women's erotica]] is enjoying a boom. SF in general shows a much greater level of sexual explicitness, and [[fanfic]] gets naughty and needs a spanking.

[[Marion Zimmer Bradley]]'s [[The Mists of Avalon]] kicks off a new thread of novels portraying [[women's spirituality]] and goddess-based religions, ultimately feeding into the New Age fiction trend. [[The Mists of Avalon]] also initiated a popular trend of reenvisioning histories, myths, and iconic stories from feminist or subaltern perspectives.

Numerous women's presses and bookstores are founded in the 1970s with the collective energy of the feminist movement and lesbian separatists; lesbian & gay-themed lines, presses, and bookstores followed shortly thereafter.

The English-speaking world discovers magical realism, and numerous important new works are published or translated into English.

The bisexual, goth, androgynous, vampire thing picks up steam in the 80s.

* [[1980]] Octavia Butler publishes Wild Seed
* [[1980]] Elizabeth Lynn publishes Northern Girl
* 1980 Kate Wilhelm publishes Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

* 1981 Julian May publishes The Many Colored Lands (first in Pleiocene Cycle)
* 1981 New Victoria publishes WomanSpace: Future and Fantasy, Stories and Art by Women
* 1981 Elisabeth Vonarburg publishes La Silence de la Cite; translated into English in 1988 as The Silent City

* 1982 Tanith Lee publishes The Silver Metal Lover
* 1982 Smith College hosted a 3-week symposium on feminist speculative fiction

* [[1983]] [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]] publishes [[The Mists of Avalon]]
* Mary Gentle publishes Witchbreed
* [[1983]] [[Joanna Russ]] publishes [[How to Supress Women's Writing]]

* [[1984]] Suzette Haden Elgin publishes [[Native Tongue]]
* [[1984]] Marion Zimmer Bradley publishes [[Sword and Sorceress]], the first in a series of Bradley-edited anthologies in which many new writers got started, and a consistent source for stories about women (specifically, swordswomen and sorceresses).
* 1984 [[Kindred Spirits: An Anthology of Gay and Lesbian Science Fiction Stories]] Jeffrey M. Elliot publishes, with [[Alyson Press]], the first explicitly gay-lesbian themed SF anthology, reprinting GL stories from previous publications.

* [[1985]] [[Margaret Atwood]] publishes [[The Handmaid's Tale]], later made into a film and an opera

* [[1986]] Sigourney Weaver kicks ass in [[Aliens]] (dir., [[James Cameron]])
* [[1986]] Joan Slonczewski publishes [[A Door Into Ocean]]
* [[1986]] [[Gaylaxian Science Fiction Society]] formed

* [[1987]] [[Toni Morrison]] publishes [[Beloved]]
* 1987 Pamela Sargent publishes The Shore of Women
* 1987 Gwyneth Jones publishes Divine Endurance
* Octavia Butler publishes Dawn, first book of the [[Xenogenesis]] trilogy
* [[James Tiptree, Jr.]] (Alice Sheldon) dies, 1915-1987

* 1988 Carol Emshwiller publishes Carmen Dog
* 1988 C.J. Cherryh publishes Cyteen
* 1988 Sheri Tepper publishes The Gate to Women's Country
* [[Gaylaxicon]], the first GLB SF convention
* [[Lambda Literary Awards]] inaugurated, with a joint category for "mystery/sf"; first award given to a mystery.

==The Gay Nineties: Queer Identity & Default Feminism (1991 onward)==

Explicitly feminist themes in SF continued to be explored in feministSF, but the true triumph of the [[Secret Feminist Cabal]] is the acceptance of the goals and analyses of feminism in much other literature. Strong women characters have become a norm for male and female writers alike. Kick-ass woman heroes made a major splash on TV and film.

In the post-[[Feminist Sex Wars]] years, lesbian, feminist, and woman-centered erotica boomed, spawning many anthologies on every conceivable subject. And feministSF moved online, in all its forms: [[fanfic]], geeky websites, mailing lists, and the like.

* 1989 [[Susanna Sturgis]] publishes [[Memories and Visions: Women's Fantasy and Science Fiction]] anthology
* 1990 [[Susanna Sturgis]] publishes [[The Women Who Walk Through Fire: Women's Fantasy and Science Fiction, Vol.2]] anthology
* [[1991]] The creation of the [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award]] for SF or fantasy that explores and expands gender roles; [[Pat Murphy]] announced the creation at [[WisCon]].
* 1991 Lambda Literary Awards now split the lesbian mystery/sf category, and created a category for "Lesbian Science Fiction/Fantasy"; first Lambda for a lesbian fantasy/SF book, [[Jessica Amanda Salmonson]]'s anthology of glb supernatural fiction, [[What Did Miss Darrington See?]])

* 1991 Jewelle Gomez publishes The Gilda Stories; Marge Piercy publishes He, She and It; Rebecca Ore publishes The Illegal Rebirth of Billy the Kid

* [[1992]] [[Angela Carter]] dies
* [[1992]] [[Nicola Griffith]] publishes [[Ammonite]]
* [[1992]] [[Sally Potter]] directs [[Orlando (film)|"Orlando"]]

* [[1993]] [[The X-Files]] reinvents the buddy film, debuting the skeptical scientific Scully playing straight man to Mulder's flirty believer; the two remain (mostly) platonic peers and equals for some half-dozen years into the series. The X-Files also accounts for a tremendous surge in FanFic which moved online in vast numbers.
* [[1993]] [[Pam Keesey]] publishes Daughters of Darkness: Lesbian Vampire Stories, one of the first explicitly lesbian anthologies of fantasy/horror, tapping into the lesbian vampire zeitgeist (they're lesbian! they're vampires!)

* [[1994]] First website on feminist SF (ultimately becoming http://feministSF.org ).
* 1994 Nancy Kress publishes Beggars in Spain; Kathleen Ann Goonan publishes Queen City Jazz; Maureen McHugh publishes Half the Day Is Night

* [[1995]] "[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]" series premiere airs in the US (1995 Sept. 9; UK airdate, 1996 Sept. 8)
* 1995 Nancy Springer publishes Larque on the Wing

* [[1996]] (??) [[Circlet Press]] first publication of erotic, feminist SF, a chapbook called [[Telepaths Don't Need Safewords]]

* [[1997]] [[Judith Merril]] dies
* [[1997]] [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]] series premiere in the US

* [[1998]] The [[Gaylactic Network]] establishes the [[Spectrum Awards]] "to honor works in science fiction, fantasy and horror which include positive explorations of gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered characters, themes, or issues."
* [[1998]] - The [[Secret Feminist Cabal]] goes public by publishing the Tiptree Anthology, [[Flying Cups and Saucers]], illustrated by [[Freddie Baer]]
* [[1998]] [[Nalo Hopkinson]] publishes Brown Girl in the Ring

* [[1999]] [[FemSpec]] founded
* [[1999]] [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]] dies
* [[1999]] [[Naomi Mitchison]] dies

* [[2000]] [[Broad Universe]] founded to promote women writers of SF/F/H
* [[2000]] [[Feminist Bookstore News]] shuts down after a 25-year run, during which it saw the peak and then eventual demise of many feminist presses and bookstores.

* [[2002]] [[Whileaway LiveJournal community]] began, 2002 June 26

* [[2003]] [[Monique Wittig]] died

* [[2006]] [[Octavia Butler]] died
* [[2006]] feministSF wiki began
* [[2006]] [[WisCon]] 30 year anniversary!

* [[2006]] [[Breastfeeding on LiveJournal|LiveJournal BreastFeeding Icon Controversy]]
* [[2006]] "BoobGate": [[Harlan Ellison]] acts like a baby on stage, making a grab at [[Connie Willis]]' tit.

== Sources & External Links ==

* [[User:Lquilter|Laura Quilter]], 2001-2006, A Brief History of Feminist SF/F and Women in SF/F, available at http://feministsf.org/community/history.html

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Breastfeeding on LiveJournal

2006-10-14T21:15:20Z

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In June 2006, a number of users were suspended from LiveJournal because their default user icons showed pictures of a baby breastfeeding.

A user icon on LiveJournal is an image (100 by 100 pixels) which the user may associate with a post or a comment. The default user icon appears on some searches, on some lists, on the user info page, and when the user makes a comment or a post without specifically selecting an icon.

Some time before the middle of May 2006, a livejournal user '''Hardvice''' set his default icon to a piece of art showing Bea Arthur topless. This default icon was reported to LJ Abuse.

LJ Abuse are the group of people, mostly volunteers, who enforce the rules set down in the FAQ and the TOS. The team leader of LJ Abuse, '''Rahaeli''', is an employee of SixApart (the company that owns LiveJournal).

LJ Abuse notified '''Hardvice''' that he could not use a picture of a bare-breasted woman as his default icon. '''Hardvice''' produced a replacement version of the picture with cups over the nipples. It is reported that LJ Abuse first said that this wasn't acceptable, and then changed their position and said that it was.

'''Hardvice''' says he then decided to test the rule by reporting other icons with bare-breasted women, including some of mothers breastfeeding their babies.

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