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* Kit Reed, Gwyneth Jones, Mary Gentle, Pat Murphy | * Kit Reed, Gwyneth Jones, Mary Gentle, Pat Murphy | ||
* Melissa Scott | * Melissa Scott, ''Shadow Man'' | ||
* http://www.worldswithoutend.com/lists_sf_mistressworks.asp | * http://www.worldswithoutend.com/lists_sf_mistressworks.asp | ||
* author interviews, editor interviews | * author interviews, editor interviews | ||
Revision as of 14:04, 8 May 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 will be listed here.
Chats take place on Sundays, at 11:00 Pacific, 14:00 Eastern, 19:00 UK, etc.
Past chats and other posts under this hashtag are archived at TwapperKeeper.
Future topics
- May 15
- May 22, Short story club
- May 29
- June 5, Book club
- June 12
- June 19, Short story club
- June 26
- July 3, Book club
- July 10
- July 17, Short story club
- July 24
- July 31
- August 7, Book club
- ...
Past topics
- May 8, 2011: Joanna Russ
Unsorted list of suggestions for future topics
- Nichelle Nichols & Uhura
- Ursula Le Guin's Dispossessed
- Octavia Butler's Fledgeling
- Tepper's The Gate to Women's Country
- Starhawk's The Fifth Sacred Thing
- femaleness & createdness. Pygmalion, Justina Robson, Ekaterina Sedia
- more recent: Leelo
- Shiner, Kelly, Ryman, Delany
- Torn World, hopefully with @ellenmillion
- outside of literary SF, to other media
- Kit Reed, Gwyneth Jones, Mary Gentle, Pat Murphy
- Melissa Scott, Shadow Man
- http://www.worldswithoutend.com/lists_sf_mistressworks.asp
- author interviews, editor interviews
- in March 89 James Patrick Kelly & Karen Fowler pub. v.similar stories from m/f perspectives
- Mary Shelley
- http://futurefire.net/2010.19/index.html (Feminist SF themed issue)
- http://futurefire.net/2010.20/index.html (Queer SF themed issue)
- @mcahogarth, what with the alien species with three sexes
- If we include fantasy, I can thing of @jimchines
- Discuss historical ancestors.
- A thread where conversants each put forth 1 thing they've learned from #feministsf
- alternate gender formations and their use in #feministsf
- For discussions of sexualities & disabilities, @catvalente would be a good guest-hostess
- @JLichtenberg is active on #sfchat
- @CJCherryh also has a Twitter account.
- @catvalente & @theodoragoss would also be great for a discussion of feminism & myth/folklore
- http://eithin.com/wiki/index.php?title=Free_Online_Fiction