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#tiptree16 and science fiction for transformative change

By Alexis Lothian December 8, 2016 Uncategorized No Comments

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…

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Queer Speculations: Twitter archive

By Alexis Lothian April 23, 2015 Uncategorized No Comments

DC Queer Studies Conference. 17 April 2015. University of Maryland College Park.

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WisCon Academic Track: call for proposals

By Alexis Lothian February 8, 2015 Uncategorized No Comments

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.…

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A Foretaste of the Feminist Future, circa 1889

By Alexis Lothian February 15, 2014 Uncategorized No Comments

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…

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#ASA2012 panel notes: Speculative Visions of Alternate Worlds and Near Futures Beyond Empire

By Alexis Lothian November 19, 2012 Uncategorized No Comments

A combination of tweets and notes, archiving the #ASA2012 panel with Shelley Streeby, Curtis Marez, Chera Kee, Chris Cunningham, and Emma Perez.

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3.5 minutes of distilled fannish joy

By Alexis Lothian August 16, 2012 Uncategorized No Comments

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…

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Speculative Life

By Alexis Lothian January 10, 2012 Uncategorized No Comments

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…

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WisCon 35

By Alexis Lothian May 24, 2011 Uncategorized No Comments

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,…

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Gendered Futures, Katharine Burdekin and Reproductive Queer Negativity: No Future Conference post 2 of 2

By Alexis Lothian April 9, 2011 Uncategorized No Comments

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…

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Tiptree winners 2009

By Alexis Lothian March 22, 2010 Uncategorized No Comments

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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Alexis Lothian

Associate Professor in The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studes; Core Faculty in Design Cultures and Creativity; Affiliate Faculty in American Studies, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. University of Maryland College Park

Author, Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility (NYU Press, 2018)

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