FeministSF Twitter Chat

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 26, Feminist SF World-building (mod: @GollyMollyB)
• July 3, Book discussion: Ursula Le Guin Left Hand of Darkness (mods: @Regina_dB & ...)
• July 10,
• July 17, Short story chat:
• July 24, YA and children's Feminist SF/F (mods: @Regina_dB & @thedilletante)
• 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 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 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
• 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
• Le Guin Dispossessed

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

• Pat Cadigan 'Roadside Rescue'
• Pat Murphy 'Rachel In Love'
• kij Johnson 'Ponies'
• Gwyneth Jones 'Tomb Wife'
• Nicola Griffith 'it takes two'
• Feminist SF themed issue of TFF
• 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
• Feminism and race
• Representation of disability in SF

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