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Welcome to the Feminist SF wiki

... a collective knowledge base of all things feminist, fictional, and speculative (science fiction, fantastic, magically real, horror, and so forth) ... with 5,459 pages

... we want your suggestions and ideas!

Current highlighted projects:

• Please add to the J.R.R. Tolkien pages, discussing representations of women and ethnicity in LOTR.
• Annoying Plot Conventions about gender or things that happen to female characters that make you roll your eyes

The Heart of Feminist SF : the community

• Events
  • WisCon -- WisCon 30 just happened -- please add your transcripts, bibliographies, comments & reports
  • Women's Wiki Camp (to be renamed later)
• Feminist SF & Related Organizations & Communities
  • Writers' Resources
  • James Tiptree, Jr. Award -- The 2005 award was just given to Geoff Ryman's Air at WisCon 30 ... see http://tiptree.org/ for more info
  • other awards: Carl Brandon Society Parallax Award and Kindred Award ... Gaylactic Spectrum Awards ... SFFFW Roots in Writing Award ... Sense of Gender Award
  • Broad Universe, the organization for women writing science fiction, fantasy and horror ... see http://broaduniverse.org/
  • feministSF.org, the host of this wiki, listserves, and various websites over the years ... see http://feministsf.org/
  • 2006 Láadan Working Group: notes for moving forward
  • FSF.Net Working Groups - working groups on various FSF projects
  • Secret Feminist Cabal & other feminist conspiracies

• Feminist SF fans, editors, and scholars
  • Memorials & Remembrances
    • Lisa Barnett, (1958-2006)
    • Octavia Butler, (1947-2006)

FSF Books, Authors, Etc.

• Creators, including
  • Author List and
  • Artists, Musicians, Etc.

• Bibliographies & Lists of Works
  • Influential Feminist FSF Books
  • Canons
  • Reading Paths
  • Reading & Media Lists
    • Feminist Comic Books for Kids
  • Films

• Publishers and Presses

• Teaching feministSF & Critically Examining SF & feministSF
  • Courses
  • Syllabi
  • Literary Devices, Tropes, Themes, Plot Points common to Feminist SF
    • Myths of particular interest to FSF
    • Mythological Female Characters
  • Women in SF
    • Archetypal female characters (needs filler)
      • the Black Warrior Woman
    • Women in SF Art
    • Notable Female Characters
  • Women in Fandom
  • FeministSF Critical Theory
  • Timeline of Women in SF & Feminist SF

• Related related information on "SF" or "feminism" etc.
• Media for feminist SF works
• Quotes

What is this?

• what's the feministSF wiki?
  • what's the FSFwiki mission?
  • what's the FSFwiki process for negotiating disputes & the like?
  • why aren't you just putting this stuff on wikipedia?
• what's feminist SF?
• what's feminism?
  • what are some feminist issues and feminist processes?
• what's SF?

• "can I do it?" yes. Anybody can edit text -- go ahead, try it! Click "edit" at the top of the page ... (Except for this first page ... You have to log in & create a userID to edit the first page, a protection added because of linkspam.) See the User's Guide or the Quick Cheat Sheet
  • want to do more?: If you want to be a super-editor and help do initial technical configurations of the wiki, write Laura Quilter or lquilter at lquilter.net with "fsfwiki" in the subject line.
  • how do I make suggestions? (add them to the suggestions page)
  • how can I help? contribute to our To Do List
  • Wiki Office Hours - Scheduled time when someone will be on the wiki, hoping for collaboration and chat in realtime

• How is this funded? Can I donate?

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