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* June 5, Book discussion: Octavia Butler's ''Fledgeling'' | * June 5, Book discussion: Octavia Butler's ''Fledgeling'' | ||
Revision as of 10:45, 15 May 2011
An occasional 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.
Past chats and other posts under this hashtag are archived at TwapperKeeper.
Future topics
- May 15, no topic
- May 22, Short story chat: Joanna Russ, 'When it Changed' [1]
- May 29
- June 5, Book discussion: Octavia Butler's Fledgeling
- June 12
- June 19, Short story chat: Feminist SF themed issue of TFF
- June 26
- July 3, Book discussion:
- July 10
- July 17, Short story chat:
- July 24
- July 31
- August 7, Book discussion:
- ...
Past topics
- May 8, 2011: Joanna Russ
Unsorted list of suggestions for future topics
novels
- Tepper's The Gate to Women's Country
- Starhawk's The Fifth Sacred Thing
- Melissa Scott, Shadow Man
- Torn World, hopefully with @ellenmillion
- Shiner, Kelly, Ryman, Delany
- Kit Reed, Gwyneth Jones, Mary Gentle, Pat Murphy
- Le Guin Dispossessed
- Le Guin Left Hand of Darkness
stories
- 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
topics
- 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
Guests
- @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
- Bear, Valente, Sullivan, Lichtenberg, Cadigan, Jemisin, Beukes, Sedia