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Welcome to the Feminist SF wiki

... a collective knowledge base of all things feminist, fictional, and speculative (science fiction, fantastic, magically real, horror, and so forth)

a wiki of our own with 5,459 pages

... we want your suggestions and ideas!

The Heart of Feminist SF : the community

• WisCon -- WisCon 30 just happened -- please add your transcripts, bibliographies, notes & comments to individual sessions
• James Tiptree, Jr. Award -- The 2005 award was just given to Geoff Ryman's Air at WisCon 30 ... see http://tiptree.org/ for more info
  • other awards: Carl Brandon Society Parallax Award and Kindred Award ... Gaylactic Spectrum Awards ... SFFFW Roots in Writing Award
• Broad Universe, the organization for women writing science fiction, fantasy and horror ... see http://broaduniverse.org/
• feministSF.org, the host of this wiki, listserves, and various websites over the years ... see http://feministsf.org/
• feminist SF & related organizations and communities
• Feminist SF fans, editors, and scholars
  • Memorials & Remembrances
    • Lisa Barnett, (1958-2006)
    • Octavia Butler, (1947-2006)

FSF Books, Authors, Etc.

• Creators, including Author List and Artists, Musicians, Etc.

• Publishers and Presses

• Bibliographies & Lists of Works
  • Influential Feminist FSF Books
  • Canons
  • Reading Paths
  • Reading Lists from Fans & Others
  • Films

• Teaching feministSF & Critically Examining SF & feministSF
  • Courses
  • Syllabi
  • Literary Devices, Tropes, Themes, Plot Points common to Feminist SF
    • Myths of particular interest to FSF
  • Women in SF
    • Archetypal female characters
    • Pulp Art Depictions of Women
  • Timeline of Women in SF & Feminist SF

• Related related information on "SF" or "feminism" etc.
• Media for feminist SF works
• Quotes

What is this?

• what's the feministSF wiki?
  • what's the FSFwiki mission?
  • what's the FSFwiki process for negotiating disputes & the like?
  • why aren't you just putting this stuff on wikipedia?
• what's feminist SF?
• what's feminism?
  • what are some feminist issues and feminist processes?
• what's SF?

• "can I do it?" yes. Anybody can edit text -- go ahead, try it! Click "edit" at the top of the page ... (Except for this first page ... You have to log in & create a userID to edit the first page, a protection added because of linkspam.) See the User's Guide or the Quick Cheat Sheet
  • want to do more?: If you want to be a super-editor and help do initial technical configurations of the wiki, write Laura Quilter or lquilter at lquilter.net with "fsfwiki" in the subject line.
  • how do I make suggestions? (add them to the suggestions page)
  • how can I help? contribute to our To Do List

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