Happy 135th birthday to Clare Winger Harris, often credited as the first woman to publish science fiction under her own name (a novel in 1923, a dozen stories in Weird Tales and Amazing Stories over the next decade). Maybe not quite #feministsf even by 1920s standards but…
And yet more -- Now 120+ –– high quality, CC-BY licensed scans of collage art by Freddie Baer are up: https://
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Collages_by_Freddie_Baer We scanned the backs of a few to show the intricate cut and insertion techniques, in the more complete Flickr set: https://www.flickr.com/photos/lizhenry/55028453090/in/datetaken-public/
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More high quality, CC-BY licensed scans of collage art by Freddie Baer are up: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Collages_by_Freddie_Baer #FeministSF #Anarchism
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Access and Fandom: Disability Studies From a Feminist Science Fiction Perspective

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Disability Studies Quarterly
> .. stereotypes such as “Men have bigger brains” and women are "naturally weak" are countered.. "an elephant also has a bigger and heavier brain" and “a lion is stronger than a man”..
> .. feminist utopia.. #Ladyland... women run everything and men are secluded,.. technology.. enables laborless farming and flying cars;. to trap solar power and control the weather... men are locked away in a technologically advanced future
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultana's_Dream
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/HT @taiyo
Sultana's Dream - Wikipedia

I found 'The Judas Rose' by Suzette Haden Elgin an enjoyable read, but it didn't set my world on fire as a novel. It's the sequel to 'Native Tongue', which is hugely important to anyone interested in the intersection between fiction and language construction, or feminism in SF, and it explores some very interesting ideas.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/76239d32-ea56-492a-b321-2fedd26c07fa

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Review by paracyclops - The Judas Rose

The Judas rose is the sequel to Suzette Haden Elgin's epochal Native tongue. It continues the...

#TimeTravelAuthors whatever day.

SECONDARY will be published on October 23rd. For the even-numbered days before that, I'll be posting the first chapters on https://secondary.blog as a free sample.

Chapter 1 is out today!

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My new "Looking Back on Genre History" segment is now available on Episode 734 of the #StarShipSofa #podcast. I discuss four important but lesser-known #dystopian novels from the 20th century that are back in new editions thanks to #ValancourtBooks.

Here is the link!
http://www.starshipsofa.com/blog/2024/06/05/starshipsofa-no-734-molly-tanzer/

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StarShipSofa No 734 Molly Tanzer | StarShipSofa

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I hope you have heard of Otherwise formerly known as Tiptree for a book resource https://otherwiseaward.org/
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Otherwise Award (Formerly the Tiptree Award)

Official site of the Otherwise Award, given to a work of science fiction or fantasy in one year which best explores & expands gender roles.

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