#tiptree16 and science fiction for transformative change
So long has passed since I last wrote here (I have been finding that so much of the labor of faculty life takes the form of writing that I have…
Read moreQueer Speculations: Twitter archive
DC Queer Studies Conference. 17 April 2015. University of Maryland College Park.
Read moreWisCon Academic Track: call for proposals
This year, along with Lauren Lacey, I have taken over as co-chair of academic programming at WisCon, the feminist science fiction convention for which I have immense and enduring love.…
Read moreA Foretaste of the Feminist Future, circa 1889
I’m excited to announce that the 1889 feminist utopia to which I wrote the introduction, New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future by Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett, is now in print…
Read more#ASA2012 panel notes: Speculative Visions of Alternate Worlds and Near Futures Beyond Empire
A combination of tweets and notes, archiving the #ASA2012 panel with Shelley Streeby, Curtis Marez, Chera Kee, Chris Cunningham, and Emma Perez.
Read more3.5 minutes of distilled fannish joy
I just came back from VividCon, the fan vidding convention. (If you want to know what vidding is, click the tab above.) Vidders submit their vids to Vividcon months in…
Read moreSpeculative Life
I’m excited to announce the publication of a new Social Text Periscope online dossier, edited by Jayna Brown and I, on Speculative Life. Here’s part of our description of the…
Read moreWisCon 35
I am on my way to WisCon 35 this weekend. WisCon is a feminist science fiction convention that combines critical analysis and celebration of feminist literature and media, fannish overexcitement,…
Read moreGendered Futures, Katharine Burdekin and Reproductive Queer Negativity: No Future Conference post 2 of 2
Following on from my previous post discussing the No Future conference more generally, my panel was memorable enough for a post of its own. I’ve edited this post from the…
Read moreTiptree winners 2009
I am really proud to have been part of the jury that gave Fumi Yoshinaga’s Ooku and Greer Gilman’s Cloud and Ashes the 2009 Tiptree award, for science fiction/fantasy that…
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