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FeministSF Twitter Chat

2011-08-26T00:14:47Z

EditingCanada:

A weekly twitter chat (using the hashtag "[https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/%23FeministSF #FeministSF]" / see [http://tweetchat.com/room/FeministSF Tweetchat]) that was established in May 2011 in response to the death of [[Joanna Russ]]. Future themes and topics may be listed here.

Chats take place on Sundays, at 11:00 Pacific, 14:00 Eastern, 19:00 UK, etc., nominally for one hour (although people often keep chatting much longer).

Past chats and other posts under this hashtag are archived at [http://twapperkeeper.com/hashtag/FeministSF?l=500 TwapperKeeper].

==Future topics==

* August 28, Race in Feminist SF/F (mod: @EditingCanada)
* September 4, Book discussion: Katharine Beutner's ''Alcestis'' (mods: ...)
* September 11,
* September 18, Short story chat:
* September 25,
* October 2, Book discussion:
* October 9,
* October 16, Short story chat:
* October 23,
* October 30,
* November 7, Book discussion:
* ...

==Past topics==

(most recent first)

* August 21, Short story chat: Rachel Swirsky, 'The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen’s Window' [http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/summer-2010/fiction-the-lady-who-plucked-red-flowers-beneath-the-queens-window-by-rachel-swirsky/] (mod: @sussabmax)
* August 14, feminism and disability in SF (mods: @EditingCanada & @catvalente)
* August 7, Book discussion: Melissa Scott ''Shadow Man'' (mods: @rhiannonrevolts)
* July 31, Representativeness in SF (mods: @McDougallSophia & @thefuturefire)
* July 24, YA and children's Feminist SF/F (mods: @Regina_dB & @thedilletante)
* July 17, Short story chat: Kij Johnson 'Ponies' [http://www.tor.com/stories/2010/11/ponies] and Jessica E. Kaiser 'Reflection' [http://futurefire.net/2010.19/fiction/reflection.html] (& cf. Nalo Hopkinson 'A Habit of Waste') (mod: @EditingCanada)
* July 3, Book discussion: Ursula Le Guin ''Left Hand of Darkness'' (mods: @Regina_dB & @thefuturefire)
* June 26, Feminist SF World-building (mod: @GollyMollyB)
* June 19, Short story chat: Karen Joy Fowler 'What I Didn't See' [http://replay.web.archive.org/20090304100608/http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/originals/originals_archive/fowler/fowler1.html] alongside Tiptree 'The Women Men Don't See' [http://www.lexal.net/scifi/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/tiptree2/tiptree21.html] (mods: @thedilletante & @kevmcveigh)
* June 12, LGBTQ-positive SF/F (mod: @JoVanderhooft)
* June 5, Book discussion: Octavia Butler's ''Fledgling'' (mod: @traciewelser)
* May 29, ''no topic: [http://www.wiscon.info/ WisCon] eavesdropping''
* May 22, Short story chat: Joanna Russ, 'When it Changed' [http://replay.web.archive.org/20090304101001/http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/russ/russ1.html][http://ow.ly/4UYUa]
* May 15, ''no topic: planning for future''
* May 8, 2011: Joanna Russ

==Unsorted list of suggestions for future topics==

===novels===
* Elizabeth Moon, ''The Speed of Dark''
* Nicola Griffith, ''Ammonite''
* Liz Williams, ''Banner of Souls''
* Marge Piercy, ''Woman on the Edge of Time''
* Doris Lessing, ''Shikasta''
* ''Torn World'', hopefully with @ellenmillion
* Storm Constantine, ''The Thorn Boy''
* Larissa Lai, ''Salt Fish Girl''
* Sandra McDonald, ''Diana Comet''
* Tanith Lee, ''Disturbed by her Song''
* Sheri S. Tepper, ''The Gate to Women's Country''
* Starhawk, ''The Fifth Sacred Thing''
* Shiner, Kelly, Ryman, Delany
* Kit Reed, Gwyneth Jones, Mary Gentle, Pat Murphy
* Le Guin ''Dispossessed''

===YA novels===
* Andersen, ''Feed''
* Collins, ''The Hunger Games'' trilogy
* Doctorow, ''Little Brother''
* L'Engle, ''A Wrinkle in Time''
* Le Guin ''Dispossessed''
* Le Guin, ''Voices''
* Le Guin, ''Powers''
* Le Guin, ''Gifts''
* Stead, ''When you reach me''
* Walton, ''Among Others''
* Westerfield, ''Uglies''

===stories===
* Kij Johnson, 'Spar' [http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/johnson_10_09/]
* Silvia Moreno-Garcia, 'A Handful of Earth' [http://expandedhorizons.net/magazine/?page_id=2442] (alongside Larissa Lai, 'Rachel'?)
* Pat Cadigan 'Roadside Rescue'
* Pat Murphy 'Rachel In Love'
* Gwyneth Jones 'Tomb Wife'
* Nicola Griffith 'it takes two'
* [http://futurefire.net/2010.19/index.html Feminist SF themed issue of TFF]
* [http://futurefire.net/2010.20/index.html Queer SF themed issue of TFF]
* http://www.worldswithoutend.com/lists_sf_mistressworks.asp
* in March 89 James Patrick Kelly & Karen Fowler pub. v.similar stories from m/f perspectives
* http://www.freesfonline.de/
* http://eithin.com/wiki/index.php?title=Free_Online_Fiction
* something from Hopkinson & Mehan, ''So Long Been Dreaming''
* something from Willis & Williams, ''A Woman's Liberation''
* something from Notkin, ''Flying Cups and Saucers''
* something from Sussex & Buckrich, ''She's Fantastical''
* something from James, ''Warrior Wisewoman'' (1, 2, 3)
* Rachel Swirsky, ''Scene From a Dystopia''

===topics===
* Can a book with only one female character be a feminist work?
* Feminist YA/children's lit?
* feminist SF world-building
* Feminism and race in SF
* Nichelle Nichols & Uhura
* femaleness & createdness. Pygmalion, Justina Robson, Ekaterina Sedia
** more recent: Leelo
* alternate gender formations and their use in #feministsf
* outside of literary SF, to other media
* Mary Shelley
* Discuss historical ancestors.
* A thread where conversants each put forth 1 thing they've learned from #feministsf
* Alien movies
* Serenity/Firefly

===Guests===
* @nicolaz on ''Ammonite'' and others...
* @mcahogarth, what with the alien species with three sexes
* If we include fantasy, I can thing of @jimchines
* For discussions of sexualities & disabilities, @catvalente would be a good guest-hostess
* @JLichtenberg is active on #sfchat ''but says she doesn't "write 'feminist' slant"''
* @CJCherryh also has a Twitter account.
* @catvalente & @theodoragoss would also be great for a discussion of feminism & myth/folklore
* @nnedi
* @nalohopkinson
* @tinytempest
* @katebornstein
* Bear, Valente, Sullivan, Lichtenberg, Cadigan, Jemisin, Beukes, Sedia, de Bodard, Fenn
* @rosalarian

[[category:Internet discussions]]
[[category:2011 establishments]]

FeministSF Twitter Chat

2011-08-26T00:14:21Z

EditingCanada:

A weekly twitter chat (using the hashtag "[https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/%23FeministSF #FeministSF]" / see [http://tweetchat.com/room/FeministSF Tweetchat]) that was established in May 2011 in response to the death of [[Joanna Russ]]. Future themes and topics may be listed here.

Chats take place on Sundays, at 11:00 Pacific, 14:00 Eastern, 19:00 UK, etc., nominally for one hour (although people often keep chatting much longer).

Past chats and other posts under this hashtag are archived at [http://twapperkeeper.com/hashtag/FeministSF?l=500 TwapperKeeper].

==Future topics==

* August 28, Race in Feminist SF/F (mod: EditingCanada)
* September 4, Book discussion: Katharine Beutner's ''Alcestis'' (mods: ...)
* September 11,
* September 18, Short story chat:
* September 25,
* October 2, Book discussion:
* October 9,
* October 16, Short story chat:
* October 23,
* October 30,
* November 7, Book discussion:
* ...

==Past topics==

(most recent first)

* August 21, Short story chat: Rachel Swirsky, 'The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen’s Window' [http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/summer-2010/fiction-the-lady-who-plucked-red-flowers-beneath-the-queens-window-by-rachel-swirsky/] (mod: @sussabmax)
* August 14, feminism and disability in SF (mods: @EditingCanada & @catvalente)
* August 7, Book discussion: Melissa Scott ''Shadow Man'' (mods: @rhiannonrevolts)
* July 31, Representativeness in SF (mods: @McDougallSophia & @thefuturefire)
* July 24, YA and children's Feminist SF/F (mods: @Regina_dB & @thedilletante)
* July 17, Short story chat: Kij Johnson 'Ponies' [http://www.tor.com/stories/2010/11/ponies] and Jessica E. Kaiser 'Reflection' [http://futurefire.net/2010.19/fiction/reflection.html] (& cf. Nalo Hopkinson 'A Habit of Waste') (mod: @EditingCanada)
* July 3, Book discussion: Ursula Le Guin ''Left Hand of Darkness'' (mods: @Regina_dB & @thefuturefire)
* June 26, Feminist SF World-building (mod: @GollyMollyB)
* June 19, Short story chat: Karen Joy Fowler 'What I Didn't See' [http://replay.web.archive.org/20090304100608/http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/originals/originals_archive/fowler/fowler1.html] alongside Tiptree 'The Women Men Don't See' [http://www.lexal.net/scifi/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/tiptree2/tiptree21.html] (mods: @thedilletante & @kevmcveigh)
* June 12, LGBTQ-positive SF/F (mod: @JoVanderhooft)
* June 5, Book discussion: Octavia Butler's ''Fledgling'' (mod: @traciewelser)
* May 29, ''no topic: [http://www.wiscon.info/ WisCon] eavesdropping''
* May 22, Short story chat: Joanna Russ, 'When it Changed' [http://replay.web.archive.org/20090304101001/http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/russ/russ1.html][http://ow.ly/4UYUa]
* May 15, ''no topic: planning for future''
* May 8, 2011: Joanna Russ

==Unsorted list of suggestions for future topics==

===novels===
* Elizabeth Moon, ''The Speed of Dark''
* Nicola Griffith, ''Ammonite''
* Liz Williams, ''Banner of Souls''
* Marge Piercy, ''Woman on the Edge of Time''
* Doris Lessing, ''Shikasta''
* ''Torn World'', hopefully with @ellenmillion
* Storm Constantine, ''The Thorn Boy''
* Larissa Lai, ''Salt Fish Girl''
* Sandra McDonald, ''Diana Comet''
* Tanith Lee, ''Disturbed by her Song''
* Sheri S. Tepper, ''The Gate to Women's Country''
* Starhawk, ''The Fifth Sacred Thing''
* Shiner, Kelly, Ryman, Delany
* Kit Reed, Gwyneth Jones, Mary Gentle, Pat Murphy
* Le Guin ''Dispossessed''

===YA novels===
* Andersen, ''Feed''
* Collins, ''The Hunger Games'' trilogy
* Doctorow, ''Little Brother''
* L'Engle, ''A Wrinkle in Time''
* Le Guin ''Dispossessed''
* Le Guin, ''Voices''
* Le Guin, ''Powers''
* Le Guin, ''Gifts''
* Stead, ''When you reach me''
* Walton, ''Among Others''
* Westerfield, ''Uglies''

===stories===
* Kij Johnson, 'Spar' [http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/johnson_10_09/]
* Silvia Moreno-Garcia, 'A Handful of Earth' [http://expandedhorizons.net/magazine/?page_id=2442] (alongside Larissa Lai, 'Rachel'?)
* Pat Cadigan 'Roadside Rescue'
* Pat Murphy 'Rachel In Love'
* Gwyneth Jones 'Tomb Wife'
* Nicola Griffith 'it takes two'
* [http://futurefire.net/2010.19/index.html Feminist SF themed issue of TFF]
* [http://futurefire.net/2010.20/index.html Queer SF themed issue of TFF]
* http://www.worldswithoutend.com/lists_sf_mistressworks.asp
* in March 89 James Patrick Kelly & Karen Fowler pub. v.similar stories from m/f perspectives
* http://www.freesfonline.de/
* http://eithin.com/wiki/index.php?title=Free_Online_Fiction
* something from Hopkinson & Mehan, ''So Long Been Dreaming''
* something from Willis & Williams, ''A Woman's Liberation''
* something from Notkin, ''Flying Cups and Saucers''
* something from Sussex & Buckrich, ''She's Fantastical''
* something from James, ''Warrior Wisewoman'' (1, 2, 3)
* Rachel Swirsky, ''Scene From a Dystopia''

===topics===
* Can a book with only one female character be a feminist work?
* Feminist YA/children's lit?
* feminist SF world-building
* Feminism and race in SF
* Nichelle Nichols & Uhura
* femaleness & createdness. Pygmalion, Justina Robson, Ekaterina Sedia
** more recent: Leelo
* alternate gender formations and their use in #feministsf
* outside of literary SF, to other media
* Mary Shelley
* Discuss historical ancestors.
* A thread where conversants each put forth 1 thing they've learned from #feministsf
* Alien movies
* Serenity/Firefly

===Guests===
* @nicolaz on ''Ammonite'' and others...
* @mcahogarth, what with the alien species with three sexes
* If we include fantasy, I can thing of @jimchines
* For discussions of sexualities & disabilities, @catvalente would be a good guest-hostess
* @JLichtenberg is active on #sfchat ''but says she doesn't "write 'feminist' slant"''
* @CJCherryh also has a Twitter account.
* @catvalente & @theodoragoss would also be great for a discussion of feminism & myth/folklore
* @nnedi
* @nalohopkinson
* @tinytempest
* @katebornstein
* Bear, Valente, Sullivan, Lichtenberg, Cadigan, Jemisin, Beukes, Sedia, de Bodard, Fenn
* @rosalarian

[[category:Internet discussions]]
[[category:2011 establishments]]

FeministSF Twitter Chat

2011-08-26T00:13:38Z

EditingCanada:

A weekly twitter chat (using the hashtag "[https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/%23FeministSF #FeministSF]" / see [http://tweetchat.com/room/FeministSF Tweetchat]) that was established in May 2011 in response to the death of [[Joanna Russ]]. Future themes and topics may be listed here.

Chats take place on Sundays, at 11:00 Pacific, 14:00 Eastern, 19:00 UK, etc., nominally for one hour (although people often keep chatting much longer).

Past chats and other posts under this hashtag are archived at [http://twapperkeeper.com/hashtag/FeministSF?l=500 TwapperKeeper].

==Future topics==

* August 28, Race in Feminist SF/F
* September 4, Book discussion: Katharine Beutner's ''Alcestis'' (mods: ...)
* September 11,
* September 18, Short story chat:
* September 25,
* October 2, Book discussion:
* October 9,
* October 16, Short story chat:
* October 23,
* October 30,
* November 7, Book discussion:
* ...

==Past topics==

(most recent first)

* August 21, Short story chat: Rachel Swirsky, 'The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen’s Window' [http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/summer-2010/fiction-the-lady-who-plucked-red-flowers-beneath-the-queens-window-by-rachel-swirsky/] (mod: @sussabmax)
* August 14, feminism and disability in SF (mods: @EditingCanada & @catvalente)
* August 7, Book discussion: Melissa Scott ''Shadow Man'' (mods: @rhiannonrevolts)
* July 31, Representativeness in SF (mods: @McDougallSophia & @thefuturefire)
* July 24, YA and children's Feminist SF/F (mods: @Regina_dB & @thedilletante)
* July 17, Short story chat: Kij Johnson 'Ponies' [http://www.tor.com/stories/2010/11/ponies] and Jessica E. Kaiser 'Reflection' [http://futurefire.net/2010.19/fiction/reflection.html] (& cf. Nalo Hopkinson 'A Habit of Waste') (mod: @EditingCanada)
* July 3, Book discussion: Ursula Le Guin ''Left Hand of Darkness'' (mods: @Regina_dB & @thefuturefire)
* June 26, Feminist SF World-building (mod: @GollyMollyB)
* June 19, Short story chat: Karen Joy Fowler 'What I Didn't See' [http://replay.web.archive.org/20090304100608/http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/originals/originals_archive/fowler/fowler1.html] alongside Tiptree 'The Women Men Don't See' [http://www.lexal.net/scifi/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/tiptree2/tiptree21.html] (mods: @thedilletante & @kevmcveigh)
* June 12, LGBTQ-positive SF/F (mod: @JoVanderhooft)
* June 5, Book discussion: Octavia Butler's ''Fledgling'' (mod: @traciewelser)
* May 29, ''no topic: [http://www.wiscon.info/ WisCon] eavesdropping''
* May 22, Short story chat: Joanna Russ, 'When it Changed' [http://replay.web.archive.org/20090304101001/http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/russ/russ1.html][http://ow.ly/4UYUa]
* May 15, ''no topic: planning for future''
* May 8, 2011: Joanna Russ

==Unsorted list of suggestions for future topics==

===novels===
* Elizabeth Moon, ''The Speed of Dark''
* Nicola Griffith, ''Ammonite''
* Liz Williams, ''Banner of Souls''
* Marge Piercy, ''Woman on the Edge of Time''
* Doris Lessing, ''Shikasta''
* ''Torn World'', hopefully with @ellenmillion
* Storm Constantine, ''The Thorn Boy''
* Larissa Lai, ''Salt Fish Girl''
* Sandra McDonald, ''Diana Comet''
* Tanith Lee, ''Disturbed by her Song''
* Sheri S. Tepper, ''The Gate to Women's Country''
* Starhawk, ''The Fifth Sacred Thing''
* Shiner, Kelly, Ryman, Delany
* Kit Reed, Gwyneth Jones, Mary Gentle, Pat Murphy
* Le Guin ''Dispossessed''

===YA novels===
* Andersen, ''Feed''
* Collins, ''The Hunger Games'' trilogy
* Doctorow, ''Little Brother''
* L'Engle, ''A Wrinkle in Time''
* Le Guin ''Dispossessed''
* Le Guin, ''Voices''
* Le Guin, ''Powers''
* Le Guin, ''Gifts''
* Stead, ''When you reach me''
* Walton, ''Among Others''
* Westerfield, ''Uglies''

===stories===
* Kij Johnson, 'Spar' [http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/johnson_10_09/]
* Silvia Moreno-Garcia, 'A Handful of Earth' [http://expandedhorizons.net/magazine/?page_id=2442] (alongside Larissa Lai, 'Rachel'?)
* Pat Cadigan 'Roadside Rescue'
* Pat Murphy 'Rachel In Love'
* Gwyneth Jones 'Tomb Wife'
* Nicola Griffith 'it takes two'
* [http://futurefire.net/2010.19/index.html Feminist SF themed issue of TFF]
* [http://futurefire.net/2010.20/index.html Queer SF themed issue of TFF]
* http://www.worldswithoutend.com/lists_sf_mistressworks.asp
* in March 89 James Patrick Kelly & Karen Fowler pub. v.similar stories from m/f perspectives
* http://www.freesfonline.de/
* http://eithin.com/wiki/index.php?title=Free_Online_Fiction
* something from Hopkinson & Mehan, ''So Long Been Dreaming''
* something from Willis & Williams, ''A Woman's Liberation''
* something from Notkin, ''Flying Cups and Saucers''
* something from Sussex & Buckrich, ''She's Fantastical''
* something from James, ''Warrior Wisewoman'' (1, 2, 3)
* Rachel Swirsky, ''Scene From a Dystopia''

===topics===
* Can a book with only one female character be a feminist work?
* Feminist YA/children's lit?
* feminist SF world-building
* Feminism and race in SF
* Nichelle Nichols & Uhura
* femaleness & createdness. Pygmalion, Justina Robson, Ekaterina Sedia
** more recent: Leelo
* alternate gender formations and their use in #feministsf
* outside of literary SF, to other media
* Mary Shelley
* Discuss historical ancestors.
* A thread where conversants each put forth 1 thing they've learned from #feministsf
* Alien movies
* Serenity/Firefly

===Guests===
* @nicolaz on ''Ammonite'' and others...
* @mcahogarth, what with the alien species with three sexes
* If we include fantasy, I can thing of @jimchines
* For discussions of sexualities & disabilities, @catvalente would be a good guest-hostess
* @JLichtenberg is active on #sfchat ''but says she doesn't "write 'feminist' slant"''
* @CJCherryh also has a Twitter account.
* @catvalente & @theodoragoss would also be great for a discussion of feminism & myth/folklore
* @nnedi
* @nalohopkinson
* @tinytempest
* @katebornstein
* Bear, Valente, Sullivan, Lichtenberg, Cadigan, Jemisin, Beukes, Sedia, de Bodard, Fenn
* @rosalarian

[[category:Internet discussions]]
[[category:2011 establishments]]