FeministSF Twitter Chat

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, de Bodard, Fenn