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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.
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).
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].
(* 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==
==Future topics==


* July 31, Representativeness in SF (mods: @McDougallSophia & @thefuturefire)
* September 2,
* August 7, Book discussion: Melissa Scott ''Shadow Man'' (mods: @rhiannonrevolts)
* September 9,  
* August 14, feminism and disability in SF (mods: @EditingCanada & @catvalente)
* September 16,  
* August 21, Short story chat:
* September 23,  
* August 28,  
* September 30,  
* September 4, Book discussion: Katharine Beutner's ''Alcestis'' (mods: ...)
* October 7,
* September 11,  
* October 14,  
* September 18, Short story chat:
* October 21,  
* September 25,  
* October 28,  
* October 2, Book discussion:
* November 4,  
* October 9,  
* October 16, Short story chat:
* October 23,
* October 30,  
* November 7, Book discussion:
* ...


==Past topics==
==Past topics==
(most recent first)
(most recent first)


* 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 12, Invisibility, transgressiveness and the outlaw body
* 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 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 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)
* July 3, Book discussion: [[Ursula Le Guin]] ''[[Left Hand of Darkness]]'' (mods: @Regina_dB & @thefuturefire)
* June 26, Feminist SF World-building (mod: @GollyMollyB)
* 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 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 12, LGBTQ-positive SF/F (mod: @[[JoVanderhooft]])
* June 5, Book discussion: Octavia Butler's ''Fledgling'' (mod: @traciewelser)
* June 5, Book discussion: [[Octavia Butler]]'s ''[[Fledgling]]'' (mod: @traciewelser)
* May 29, ''no topic: [http://www.wiscon.info/ WisCon] eavesdropping''
* 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 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 15, ''no topic: planning for future''
* May 8, 2011: Joanna Russ
* May 8, 2011: [[Joanna Russ]]


==Unsorted list of suggestions for future topics==
==Unsorted list of suggestions for future topics==


===novels===
===novels===
* Nicola Griffith, ''Ammonite''
* [[Elizabeth Moon]], ''[[The Speed of Dark]]''
* Katharine Beutner, ''Alcestis''
* [[Nicola Griffith]], ''[[Ammonite]]''
* Melissa Scott, ''Shadow Man''
* [[Liz Williams]], ''[[Banner of Souls]]''
* Liz Williams, ''Banner of Souls''
* [[Doris Lessing]], ''[[Shikasta]]''
* Doris Lessing, ''Shikasta''
* ''[[Torn World]]'', hopefully with @ellenmillion
* ''Torn World'', hopefully with @ellenmillion
* [[Storm Constantine]], ''[[The Thorn Boy]]''
* Storm Constantine, ''The Thorn Boy''
* [[Larissa Lai]], ''[[Salt Fish Girl]]''
* Larissa Lai, ''Salt Fish Girl''
* [[Sandra McDonald]], ''[[Diana Comet]]''
* Sandra McDonald, ''Diana Comet''
* [[Tanith Lee]], ''[[Disturbed by Her Song]]''
* Tanith Lee, ''Disturbed by her Song''
* [[Sheri S. Tepper]], ''[[The Gate to Women's Country]]''
* Sheri S. Tepper, ''The Gate to Women's Country''
* [[Starhawk]], ''[[The Fifth Sacred Thing]]''
* Starhawk, ''The Fifth Sacred Thing''
* Shiner, Kelly, [[Ryman]], [[Delany]]
* Shiner, Kelly, Ryman, Delany
* [[Kit Reed]], [[Gwyneth Jones]], [[Mary Gentle]], [[Pat Murphy]]
* Kit Reed, Gwyneth Jones, Mary Gentle, Pat Murphy
* [[Pat Cadigan]], ''[[Dervish is Digital]]''
* Le Guin ''Dispossessed''
* [[Kazuo Ishiguro]], ''[[Never Let Me Go]]''
* [[Kaaron Warren]], ''[[Walking the Tree]]''


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


===stories===
===stories===
* Pat Cadigan 'Roadside Rescue'
* (alongside [[Larissa Lai]], 'Rachel'?)
* Pat Murphy 'Rachel In Love'
* [[Octavia Butler]], 'Bloodchild' [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/bloodchi.htm]
* kij Johnson 'Ponies'
* [[Rachel Swirsky]], ''Scene From a Dystopia'' [http://www.scalzi.com/subterranean_issue_4.pdf]
* Gwyneth Jones 'Tomb Wife'
* [[Sara Hosey]], 'This is what I look like now' [http://futurefire.net/2010.21/fiction/thisiswhat.html]
* Nicola Griffith 'it takes two'
* [[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/2010.19/index.html Feminist SF themed issue of TFF]
* [http://futurefire.net/2010.20/index.html Queer SF themed issue of TFF]
* [http://futurefire.net/2010.20/index.html Queer SF themed issue of TFF]
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===topics===
===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
* Feminism and race in SF
* Nichelle Nichols & Uhura
* [[Nichelle Nichols]] & [[Uhura]]
* femaleness & createdness. Pygmalion, Justina Robson, Ekaterina Sedia
* femaleness & createdness. [[Pygmalion]], [[Justina Robson]], [[Ekaterina Sedia]]
** more recent: Leelo
** more recent: [[Leelo]]
* alternate gender formations and their use in #feministsf
* alternate gender formations and their use in #feministsf
* outside of literary SF, to other media
* outside of literary SF, to other media
* Mary Shelley
* [[Mary Shelley]]
* Discuss historical ancestors.
* Discuss historical ancestors.
* A thread where conversants each put forth 1 thing they've learned from #feministsf
* A thread where conversants each put forth 1 thing they've learned from #feministsf
* Alien movies
* [[Serenity/Firefly]]
* Serenity/Firefly
* Feminist Military SF
* Feminism and race
* Feminist Hard SF
* Representation of disability in 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===
===Guests===
* @nicolaz on ''Ammonite'' and others...
* @mcahogarth, what with the alien species with three sexes
* @mcahogarth, what with the alien species with three sexes
* If we include fantasy, I can thing of @jimchines
* If we include fantasy, I can thing of @jimchines
* For discussions of sexualities & disabilities, @catvalente would be a good guest-hostess
* 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.
* @CJCherryh also has a Twitter account.
* @catvalente & @theodoragoss would also be great for a discussion of feminism & myth/folklore
* @catvalente & @theodoragoss would also be great for a discussion of feminism & myth/folklore
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Latest revision as of 08:04, 2 September 2012

A weekly twitter chat (using the hashtag "#FeministSF" / see 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 Archivist, a GoogleDoc, and TAGSExplorer visualization.

Future topics

  • September 2,
  • September 9,
  • September 16,
  • September 23,
  • September 30,
  • October 7,
  • October 14,
  • October 21,
  • October 28,
  • November 4,

Past topics

(most recent first)

  • August 19, short story chat: Aliette de Bodard's 'Immersion' and Sofia Samatar's A Brief History of Nonduality Studies (mod: @tzniuswarrior)
  • August 12, Invisibility, transgressiveness and the outlaw body
  • August 5, short story chat: Cat Rambo's 'Clockwork Fairies' and An Owomoyela's 'Of Men and Wolves' (mod: @NisiShawl)
  • July 29, Hugo nominees chat: Cat Valente's 'Silently and Very Fast' and 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' [1]; AJ Fitzwater, 'Trois', in Khimaral Ink 7.3
  • January 22, Lesbian SF/F recommendations from 2011 for Heiresses of Russ [2]
  • January 15, Outlaw Bodies CFS [3]
  • December 4, Book discussion: Patricia S Bowne A Lovesome Thing [4]
  • 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' [5], and Sam S. Kepfield 'Galatea's Stepchildren' [6] (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' [7] and RJ Astruc, 'How you make the straight' [8] (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' [9] (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' [10] and Jessica E. Kaiser 'Reflection' [11] (& 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' [12] alongside James Tiptree 'The Women Men Don't See' [13] (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: WisCon eavesdropping
  • May 22, Short story chat: Joanna Russ, 'When It Changed' [14][15]
  • May 15, no topic: planning for future
  • May 8, 2011: Joanna Russ

Unsorted list of suggestions for future topics

novels

YA novels

stories

topics

  • Feminism and race in SF
  • Nichelle Nichols & Uhura
  • femaleness & createdness. Pygmalion, Justina Robson, Ekaterina Sedia
  • 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 the WikiProject Feminism cooperative -- perhaps go through some 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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