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 22, Short story chat: Joanna Russ, 'When it Changed' [1][2]
• May 29, WisCon chat and eavesdropping
• June 5, Book discussion: Octavia Butler's Fledgeling (mods: @traciewelser & ...)
• June 12, LGBTQ Science Fiction
• 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 26
• July 3, Book discussion: Ursula Le Guin Left Hand of Darkness (mods: @Regina_dB & ...)
• July 10
• July 17, Short story chat:
• July 24
• July 31
• August 7, Book discussion:
• ...

Past topics

• May 8, 2011: Joanna Russ
• May 15, no topic: planning for future

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

• Pat Cadigan 'Roadside Rescue'
• Pat Murphy 'Rachel In Love'
• Karen Joy Fowler 'What I Didn't See' [5] alongside 'The Women Men Don't See' [6]
• 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, Flyin Cups and Saucers
• something from Sussex & Buckrich, She's Fantastical
• something from James, Warrior Wisewoman (1, 2, 3)

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
• Feminism and race

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
• @tinytempest
• @katebornstein
• Bear, Valente, Sullivan, Lichtenberg, Cadigan, Jemisin, Beukes, Sedia, de Bodard, Fenn
• @rosalarian