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Visions of an FSFwiki: What's your vision of the FSFwiki? a reference like wikipedia? a reference like the Star Trek wiki? a source of theory? a home for various polemical essays?

Current highlighted projects:

• Critical Theory - adding new pages & fleshing out other pages for important critical & literary theory concepts, like feminism, Queer theory, Literary analysis, male gaze, Frankfurt school, postcolonial theory, performance studies, materialist feminism, radical feminism, difference feminism, women's history, semiotics, deconstruction, cultural studies, postmodernism, etc. Add the category [[Category:Theory]] to these pages.
• Female Friendships - works that highlight or feature or have critical female friendships
• Communication Guidelines - Drafting feminist guidelines for communicating, including how to argue effectively, how to be aware of dynamics & meta-issues in conversations, how to keep conversations effective or to kill them if not
• Get Her In Print - women's works that have fallen out of print or caught in a publishing problem
• add your suggestions and ideas!
• look at the Recent changes page (also linked on the left) to see what other people are working on, and join in

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
• Editors
• Agents

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
• Women in SF
  • Cliché female characterizations (needs filler)
    • the Black Warrior Woman
  • Women in SF Art
  • Notable Female Characters
  • Mythological Female Characters

Feminist SF Studies & Scholarship

• Feminist SF Studies
• Courses and Syllabi
• FeministSF Critical Theory
• Scholars

• 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 is there stuff on this wiki that seems silly, random, and gay?
  • why aren't you just putting this stuff on wikipedia?
  • "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

• what's feminist SF?
• what's feminism?
  • what are some feminist issues and feminist processes?
• what's SF?

• what's a wiki? how do I edit it?
  • Quick Cheat Sheet

• How is this funded? Can I donate?

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