FeministSF Twitter Chat

2011-10-13T02:16:29Z

Sussabmax: Added Galatea's Stepchildren and myself as moderator to 10/16 chat

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==

* 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] (mods: @sussabmax and ...)
* October 23, Feminist SF Poetry (@Wyld_Dandelyon & @Rose_Lemberg)
* October 30,
* November 7, Book discussion:
* November 14,
* November 21, Short story chat:
* November 28,
* December 5, Book discussion:
* December 12,
* December 19, Short Story chat:
* December 26,
* January 2, Book discussion:
* ...

==Past topics==
(most recent first)

* 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]]''
* 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]]''
* Patricia S. Bowne ''[[A Lovesome Thing]]''

===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===
* (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'
* [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===
* 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]]
* Feminist Space Opera
* Feminist Military SF
* Feminist Hard SF
* Feminist alt-history
* Feminist high fantasy

===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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