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Current highlighted projects:

• Please add to the J.R.R. Tolkien pages, discussing representations of women and ethnicity in LOTR.
• Annoying Plot Conventions, Devices, Contrivances about gender or things that happen to female characters that make you roll your eyes
• Get Her In Print - women's works that have fallen out of print or caught in a publishing problem
• add your suggestions and ideas!

The Heart of Feminist SF : the community

Events

• WisCon -- please add your transcripts, bibliographies, comments & reports
• Women's Wiki Camp (to be renamed later)

Feminist SF & Related Organizations & Communities

• Secret Feminist Cabal & other feminist conspiracies
• feministSF.org, the host of this wiki, listserves, and various websites over the years ... see http://feministsf.org/
• FSF.Net Working Groups - working groups on various FSF projects
  • Think Tankery Working Group, coming soon
  • Láadan Working Group: notes for moving forward

Feminist SF fans, editors, writers, scholars & other people

• Memorials & Remembrances
  • Lisa Barnett, (1958-2006)
  • Octavia Butler, (1947-2006)

Business of feminist SF

• Publishers and Presses
• Writers' Resources including foundations, grants, writing groups, workshops, etc.
• Women SF Writers' Groups: Broad Universe and SFFFW
• Awards: 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

Fandom

• SF Conventions
• Women in Fandom

FSF Books, Authors, Etc.

Writers & Other Creators

• Author List and
• Artists, Musicians, Etc.

Books & Bibliographies

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

Themes & Characterizations

• 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

Scholarship

• Courses and Syllabi
• FeministSF Critical Theory

• Timeline of Women in SF & Feminist SF
• Related related information on "SF" or "feminism" etc.
• 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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