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A weekly 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.
A weekly 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.
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=2000 TwapperKeeper].
Past chats and other posts under this hashtag are archived at [http://twapperkeeper.com/hashtag/FeministSF?l=2000 TwapperKeeper].
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* June 12, LGBTQ-positive SF/F (mods: @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''
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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

Revision as of 12:22, 12 June 2011

A weekly twitter chat (using the hashtag "#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., nominally for one hour (although people often keep chatting much longer).

Past chats and other posts under this hashtag are archived at TwapperKeeper.

Future topics

  • June 19, Short story chat: Karen Joy Fowler 'What I Didn't See' [1] alongside Tiptree 'The Women Men Don't See' [2] (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:
  • August 14,
  • August 21, Short story chat:
  • August 28,
  • September 4, Book discussion:
  • ...

Past topics

(most recent first)

  • 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' [3][4]
  • May 15, no topic: planning for future
  • May 8, 2011: Joanna Russ

Unsorted list of suggestions for future topics

novels

  • Nicola Griffith, Ammonite
  • Katharine Beutner, Alcestis
  • Melissa Scott, Shadow Man
  • 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

stories

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
  • 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