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tropes versus women kickstarter victory! 17 Jun 2012 | 06:20 am
Anita Sarkeesian scored a whopping $150k+ in her kickstarter campaign to do work on a proposed project called “tropes versus women”, focusing on gender in video games. Of course she faced a huge wave ...
Le Guin’s “Lathe of Heaven” production in NYC (June 2012) 27 May 2012 | 11:15 am
Damn, I wish I could be there. But for those of y’all who can, here’s the info: Untitled Theater.com adapted and directed by Edward Einhorn from the book by Ursula K. Le Guin original music by Hen...
feminist spec fic anthology from PM Press 18 May 2012 | 03:52 am
FYI, y’all: Ann and Jeff VanderMeer will be editing a proposed anthology of feminist speculative fiction, to be published by PM Press.
Mary Sue: because women aren’t supposed to be heroes 1 Jan 2012 | 12:04 am
ХудожникikoniI was reading this fabulous essay by Comic Book Girl, Mary Sue, what are you? or why the concept of Sue is sexist: So, there’s this girl. She’s tragically orphaned and richer than anyone...
Excluding women 29 Dec 2011 | 11:41 pm
Years ago, I sat on the bus reading a Stephen King novel. I can’t remember which one, but it was one of five I’d got out of the library having discovered I really quite liked King and wanted to read m...
feminist science fiction submissions 15 Dec 2011 | 05:31 am
икони цениsubmission guidelines Pink Narcissus Press has issued a call for submissions for a new anthology of short science fiction. ‘Daughters of Icarus’ will feature stories exploring gender roles ...
Recent feministsf and social change 11 Dec 2011 | 09:14 am
Recently I read two feminist sf books that had strong themes of social disruption and social change, This Shared Dream and The Highest Frontier. Joan Slonczewski’s The Highest Frontier was fabulous an...
Hercules and the Feminist Separatists 10 Dec 2011 | 12:11 pm
This post is a snarky recap of the 1994 television movie Hercules and the Amazon Women starring Roma Downey (Monica from Touched by an Angel) as the sexy man-hating Amazon queen Hippolyta, Lucy Lawles...
Anne McCaffrey: 1 April 1926 – 21 November 2011 23 Nov 2011 | 12:40 pm
Anne went to Paradise: That was only fair. Aged Grendel followed her, And armed her up the stair. Fáfnir and the Wyvern, And Melusine du Paon, Stood with Jabberwock at the top To welcome Anne -...
MA in advanced linguistics. PhD in badass. 22 Nov 2011 | 06:06 am
Back in the 1960s, when Star Trek was new, it was genuinely radical – admittedly in a radical-as-dreamed-up-by-a-straight-white-guy way – but there was a black woman on the bridge who was an officer w...
