FeministSF Twitter Chat
A weekly 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., 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
- June 19, Short story chat: Karen Joy Fowler 'What I Didn't See' [1] alongside Tiptree 'The Women Men Don't See' [2] (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:
- August 14,
- August 21, Short story chat:
- August 28,
- September 4, Book discussion:
- ...
Past topics
(most recent first)
- 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' [3][4]
- 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
- 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
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
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