FeministSF Twitter Chat

2011-05-22T20:23:03Z

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An occasional twitter chat (using the hashtag "[https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23FeministSF #FeministSF]") 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.

Past chats and other posts under this hashtag are archived at [http://twapperkeeper.com/hashtag/FeministSF?l=1000 TwapperKeeper].

==Future topics==

* 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 29, [http://www.wiscon.info/ WisCon] chat and eavesdropping
* June 5, Book discussion: Octavia Butler's ''Fledgeling'' (mods: @traciewelser & ...)
* June 12, LGBTQ Science Fiction
* 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 26
* July 3, Book discussion: Ursula Le Guin ''Left Hand of Darkness'' (mods: @Regina_dB & ...)
* July 10
* July 17, Short story chat:
* July 24
* July 31
* August 7, Book discussion:
* ...

==Past topics==

* May 8, 2011: Joanna Russ
* May 15, ''no topic: planning for future''

==Unsorted list of suggestions for future topics==

===novels===
* Doris Lessing, ''Shikasta''
* Nicola Griffith, ''Ammonite''
* Tepper, ''The Gate to Women's Country''
* Starhawk, ''The Fifth Sacred Thing''
* Melissa Scott, ''Shadow Man''
* ''Torn World'', hopefully with @ellenmillion
* Shiner, Kelly, Ryman, Delany
* Kit Reed, Gwyneth Jones, Mary Gentle, Pat Murphy
* Le Guin ''Dispossessed''
* Le Guin ''Left Hand of Darkness''

===stories===
* Pat Cadigan 'Roadside Rescue'
* Pat Murphy 'Rachel In Love'
* 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 'The Women Men Don't See' [http://www.lexal.net/scifi/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/tiptree2/tiptree21.html]
* kij Johnson 'Ponies'
* 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, ''Flyin Cups and Saucers''
* something from Sussex & Buckrich, ''She's Fantastical''
* something from James, ''Warrior Wisewoman'' (1, 2, 3)

===topics===
* 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
* Feminism and race

===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

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