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).

(* except for the two weeks in Spring and Fall when Europe is 4 hours rather than 5 hours ahead of the US)

Past chats and other posts under this hashtag were previously archived at TwapperKeeper. A new archival service is being sought to replace this.

Future topics

• April 8, lesbian-themed Feminist SF/F
• April 15, Micro-readings of own stories
• April 22, female villains in feminist SF and Fantasy (with @McDougallSophia)
• April 29,
• May 6,
• May 13,
• May 20, vulnerability in feminist SF and fantasy (with @BleedingChrome)
• May 27,

no date yet

• Broad Universe guest(s)

Past topics

(most recent first)

• April 1, non-Western Feminist SF/F
• March 25, female exceptionality (e.g. lone UF heroine surrounded by men)
• March 18, epic fantasy without backdrop of war (mods @patriciasbowne & @feministfantasy)
• March 11, different facets of female strength
• March 4, Feminist Fantasy (http://feministfantasy.com/) (with @feministfantasy)
• February 26, fat female protagonists in SF
• February 12, "scifi for girls"
• February 5, Short story chat: Sunny Moraine, 'The Thick Night' [1]; AJ Fitzwater, 'Trois', in Khimaral Ink 7.3
• January 22, Lesbian SF/F recommendations from 2011 for Heiresses of Russ [2]
• January 15, Outlaw Bodies CFS [3]
• December 4, Book discussion: Patricia S Bowne A Lovesome Thing [4]
• November 27, Tribute to the works of Suzette Haden Elgin, (mod: @clundoff)
• November 6, Book discussion: Ursula Le Guin Dispossessed (mods: @traciewelser & @sussabmax)
• October 30, Feminist SF/F themes
• October 23, Feminist SF Poetry (mods: Wyld_Dandelyon & @RoseLemberg)
• October 16, Short story chat: Pat Cadigan, 'Little Latin Larry' [5], and Sam S. Kepfield 'Galatea's Stepchildren' [6] (mod: @sussabmax)
• October 9, Feminist/outsider cyberpunk (mods: @bleedingchrome & @clundoff)
• October 2, Book discussion: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time (mods: @traciewelser & @BleedingChrome)
• September 18, Short story chat: Silvia Moreno-Garcia, 'A Handful of Earth' [7] and RJ Astruc, 'How you make the straight' [8] (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' [9] (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' [10] and Jessica E. Kaiser 'Reflection' [11] (& 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' [12] alongside James Tiptree 'The Women Men Don't See' [13] (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' [14][15]
• 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
• 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
• Pat Cadigan, Dervish is Digital
• Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
• Kaaron Warren, Walking the Tree

YA novels

• Andersen, Feed
• Collins, The Hunger Games trilogy
• L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
• 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' [16]
• Rachel Swirsky, Scene From a Dystopia [17]
• Sara Hosey, 'This is what I look like now' [18]
• Kij Johnson, 'Spar' [19]
• Pat Cadigan 'Roadside Rescue'
• Pat Murphy 'Rachel In Love'
• Gwyneth Jones 'Tomb Wife'
• Nicola Griffith 'it takes two'
• C.L. Moore, 'Black God's Kiss' (and other Jirel of Joiry 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
• 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
• Feminist Space Opera
• Feminist Military SF
• Feminist Hard SF
• Feminist alt-history
• Feminist high fantasy
• Editing Wikipedia/Wikisource/Wikiquotes together to add verifiable (with citations) information about feminist science fiction, perhaps in coordination with the WikiProject Feminism cooperative -- perhaps go through some stubby articles about feminist SF writers and flesh them out

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