FeministSF Twitter Chat

A weekly twitter chat (using the hashtag "#FeministSF" / see Tweetchat) 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

• July 31, Representativeness in SF (mods: @McDougallSophia & @thefuturefire)
• August 7, Book discussion: Melissa Scott Shadow Man (mods: @rhiannonrevolts)
• August 14, feminism and disability in SF (mods: @EditingCanada & @catvalente)
• August 21, Short story chat:
• August 28,
• September 4, Book discussion: Katharine Beutner's Alcestis (mods: ...)
• September 11,
• September 18, Short story chat:
• September 25,
• October 2, Book discussion:
• ...

Past topics

(most recent first)

• July 24, YA and children's Feminist SF/F (mods: @Regina_dB & @thedilletante)
• July 17, Short story chat: Kij Johnson 'Ponies' [1] and Jessica E. Kaiser 'Reflection' [2] (& cf. Nalo Hopkinson 'A Habit of Waste') (mod: @EditingCanada)
• July 3, Book discussion: Ursula Le Guin Left Hand of Darkness (mods: @Regina_dB & @thefuturefire)
• June 26, Feminist SF World-building (mod: @GollyMollyB)
• June 19, Short story chat: Karen Joy Fowler 'What I Didn't See' [3] alongside Tiptree 'The Women Men Don't See' [4] (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' [5][6]
• 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