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

• October 2, Book discussion: Marge Piercy, Woman at the Edge of Time (mods: @traciewelser & @BleedingChrome)
• October 9, Feminist/outsider cyberpunk (mods: @bleedingchrome &@clundoff)
• October 16, Short story chat:
• October 23,
• October 30,
• November 7, Book discussion:
• November 14,
• November 21, Short story chat:
• November 28,
• December 5, Book discussion:
• ...

Past topics

(most recent first)

• September 18, Short story chat: Silvia Moreno-Garcia, 'A Handful of Earth' [1] and RJ Astruc, 'How you make the straight' [2] (mod: ...)
• September 11, Transgender issues in SF (mods: @rhiannonrevolts & @Zoe_E_W)
• September 4, Book discussion: Katharine Beutner's Alcestis
• August 28, Race in Feminist SF/F (mod: @EditingCanada)
• August 21, Short story chat: Rachel Swirsky, 'The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window' [3] (mod: @sussabmax)
• August 14, feminism and disability in SF (mods: @EditingCanada & @catvalente)
• August 7, Book discussion: Melissa Scott Shadow Man (mods: @rhiannonrevolts)
• July 31, Representativeness in SF (mods: @McDougallSophia & @thefuturefire)
• July 24, YA and children's Feminist SF/F (mods: @Regina_dB & @thedilletante)
• July 17, Short story chat: Kij Johnson 'Ponies' [4] and Jessica E. Kaiser 'Reflection' [5] (& 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' [6] alongside James Tiptree 'The Women Men Don't See' [7] (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' [8][9]
• May 15, no topic: planning for future
• May 8, 2011: Joanna Russ

Unsorted list of suggestions for future topics

novels

• Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark
• Nicola Griffith, Ammonite
• Liz Williams, Banner of Souls
• Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
• 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
• Patricia S. Bowne A Lovesome Thing

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

• (alongside Larissa Lai, 'Rachel'?)
• Octavia Butler, 'Bloodchild' [10]
• Rachel Swirsky, Scene From a Dystopia [11]
• Sara Hosey, 'This is what I look like now' [12]
• Kij Johnson, 'Spar' [13]
• Pat Cadigan 'Roadside Rescue'
• Pat Murphy 'Rachel In Love'
• 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

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