FeministSF Twitter Chat

2012-08-05T20:03:12Z

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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).

(* except for the two weeks in Spring and Fall when Europe is 4 hours rather than 5 hours ahead of the US. In other words, the chat is at 18:00 GMT between April and October; 19:00 GMT November to March.)

The chat is seeking a permanent archive solution. In the meantime there is an [http://archivist.visitmix.com/thefuturefire/1 Archivist], a [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgG0_mVdO0vedDZGS0VmZ0lvRlJmaDhyODY0SHlDZnc GoogleDoc], and [http://hawksey.info/tagsexplorer/?key=0AgG0_mVdO0vedDZGS0VmZ0lvRlJmaDhyODY0SHlDZnc&sheet=oaw TAGSExplorer visualization].

==Future topics==

* August 12,
* August 19, short story chat: [http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/debodard_06_12/ Aliette de Bodard's 'Immersion'] and [http://expandedhorizons.net/magazine/index.php?page_id=2918 Sofia Samatar's A Brief History of Nonduality Studies] (mod: @tzniuswarrior)
* August 26,
* September 2,
* September 9,
* September 16,
* September 23,
* September 30,
* October 7,

==Past topics==
(most recent first)

* August 5, short story chat: [http://www.tor.com/stories/2010/10/clockwork-fairies Cat Rambo's 'Clockwork Fairies'] and [http://www.fantasy-magazine.com/fiction/of-men-and-wolves/ An Owomoyela's 'Of Men and Wolves'] (mod: @NisiShawl)
* July 29, Hugo nominees chat: [http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/valente_10_11/ Cat Valente's 'Silently and Very Fast'] and [http://escapepod.org/2012/05/15/ep314-movement-hugo-repost/ Nancy Fulder's 'Movement'] (mod: @Wyld_Dandelyon)
* July 22, what's new and what's hot in #FeministSF
* July 15, aging in #FeministSF (with @clundoff)
* July 8, Interview with author Vonda McIntyre (moderated by @traciewelser)
* June 24, Feminist SF without victimizing your heroines
* June 17, generational differences in #feministSF (with @followthelede & ...)
* June 10, Ellen Ripley and [[Alien movies]]
* June 3, Intersection of "women's wisdom" & "feminism" in traditional societies depicted in SFF (with @followthelede & @sandykidd)
* May 27, Feminist space opera (with @CathyPegau, @snott & @thefuturefire)
* May 20, vulnerability in feminist SF and fantasy (with @BleedingChrome)
* April 29, interview with [[Nicola Griffith]] (MCed by @traciewelser)
* April 22, female villains in feminist SF and Fantasy (with @McDougallSophia)
* April 15, Micro-readings of own stories (with @dynamicsymmetry*, @jolantru*, @jhameia, @patriciasbowne, @cathypagau, @tomufasado, @oddmonstr, @clundoff, @regina_db, @wyld_dandelyon, @esedia and more)
* April 8, lesbian-themed Feminist SF/F
* April 1, non-Western Feminist SF/F
* March 25, female exceptionality (e.g. lone UF heroine surrounded by men)
* March 18, epic fantasy without backdrop of war (mods @patriciasbowne & @feministfantasy)
* March 11, different facets of female strength
* March 4, Feminist Fantasy (http://feministfantasy.com/) (with @feministfantasy)
* February 26, fat female protagonists in SF
* February 12, "scifi for girls"
* February 5, Short story chat: [[Sunny Moraine]], 'The Thick Night' [http://www.strangehorizons.com/2011/20110502/night-f.shtml]; [[AJ Fitzwater]], 'Trois', in [[Khimaral Ink]] [http://khimairalink.bedazzledink.com/ki-issues.html 7.3]
* January 22, Lesbian SF/F recommendations from 2011 for ''Heiresses of Russ'' [http://djibrilalayad.blogspot.com/2012/01/signal-boost-heiresses-of-russ-2012.html]
* January 15, Outlaw Bodies CFS [http://djibrilalayad.blogspot.com/2012/01/outlaw-bodies.html]
* December 4, Book discussion: [[Patricia S Bowne]] ''[[A Lovesome Thing]]'' [http://www.double-dragon-ebooks.com/single.php?ISBN=1-55404-863-X]
* November 27, Tribute to the works of [[Suzette Haden Elgin]], (mod: @clundoff)
* November 6, Book discussion: [[Ursula Le Guin]] ''[[Dispossessed]]'' (mods: @traciewelser & @sussabmax)
* October 30, Feminist SF/F themes
* October 23, Feminist SF Poetry (mods: Wyld_Dandelyon & @RoseLemberg)
* October 16, Short story chat: [[Pat Cadigan]], 'Little Latin Larry' [http://project.cyberpunk.ru/lib/little_latin_larry/], and [[Sam S. Kepfield]] 'Galatea's Stepchildren' [http://futurefire.net/2009.16/fiction/galatea.html] (mod: @sussabmax)
* October 9, Feminist/outsider cyberpunk (mods: @bleedingchrome & @clundoff)
* October 2, Book discussion: [[Marge Piercy]], ''[[Woman on the Edge of Time]]'' (mods: @traciewelser & @BleedingChrome)
* September 18, Short story chat: Silvia Moreno-Garcia, 'A Handful of Earth' [http://expandedhorizons.net/magazine/?page_id=2442] and RJ Astruc, 'How you make the straight' [http://futurefire.net/2010.21/fiction/makestraight.html] (mod: ...)
* September 11, Transgender issues in SF (mods: @rhiannonrevolts & @Zoe_E_W)
* September 4, Book discussion: [[Katharine Beutner]]'s ''[[Alcestis]]''
* August 28, Race in Feminist SF/F (mod: @EditingCanada)
* 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 [[James 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]]''
* [[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]]
* [[Pat Cadigan]], ''[[Dervish is Digital]]''
* [[Kazuo Ishiguro]], ''[[Never Let Me Go]]''
* [[Kaaron Warren]], ''[[Walking the Tree]]''

===YA novels===
* Andersen, ''[[Feed]]''
* [[Suzanne Collins|Collins]], ''[[The Hunger Games]]'' trilogy
* [[Madeleine L'Engle|L'Engle]], ''[[A Wrinkle in Time]]''
* Le Guin, ''[[Voices]]''
* Le Guin, ''[[Powers]]''
* Le Guin, ''[[Gifts]]''
* Stead, ''[[When You Reach Me]]''
* [[Jo Walton|Walton]], ''[[Among Others]]''
* Westerfield, ''[[Uglies]]''

===stories===
* (alongside [[Larissa Lai]], 'Rachel'?)
* [[Octavia Butler]], 'Bloodchild' [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/bloodchi.htm]
* [[Rachel Swirsky]], ''Scene From a Dystopia'' [http://www.scalzi.com/subterranean_issue_4.pdf]
* [[Sara Hosey]], 'This is what I look like now' [http://futurefire.net/2010.21/fiction/thisiswhat.html]
* [[Kij Johnson]], 'Spar' [http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/johnson_10_09/]
* [[Pat Cadigan]] 'Roadside Rescue'
* [[Pat Murphy]] 'Rachel In Love'
* [[Gwyneth Jones]] 'Tomb Wife'
* [[Nicola Griffith]] 'it takes two'
* [[C.L. Moore]], '[[Black God's Kiss]]' (and other Jirel of Joiry stories)
* [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)

===topics===

* 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
* [[Serenity/Firefly]]
* Feminist Military SF
* Feminist Hard SF
* Feminist alt-history
* Feminist high fantasy
* Editing Wikipedia/Wikisource/Wikiquotes together to add verifiable (with citations) information about feminist science fiction, perhaps in coordination with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Feminism the WikiProject Feminism cooperative] -- perhaps go through some [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Writer_stubs stubby articles] about feminist SF writers and flesh them out
* Female power fantasy's and adolescence, feminist works that got you through...

===Guests===
* @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
* @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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