Against the mainstreaming of transphobia in UK journalism
I just cancelled my membership to the Guardian in response to their transphobic editorial on the UK Gender Recognition Act. I found myself writing much more than would fit in…
Read moreOld Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility
I am delighted beyond words to announce the imminent publication of my book Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility from NYU Press. As the more active early years of…
Read moreNWSA panel “What Do Trigger Warnings Trigger?” Featuring more speakers than the program announces!
Tomorrow (November 17, 2017) I will be at the National Women’s Studies Association annual conference in Baltimore. I am chairing a roundtable at 9.30am in the Baltimore Convention Center Room…
Read moreOpen Access Special Issue on Le Guin and Radical Speculation
I’m delighted to announce the publication of a special issue of Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology on Radical Speculation and Ursula K. Le Guin. This is…
Read more#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 moreTiptree Fellowships 2016
The deadline for the second year of the Tiptree Fellowships program is coming up on September 1. The Tiptree Fellowships are my main project within the James Tiptree, Jr Award…
Read moreA digital amphibian moving through transformative worlds
Last week, I was invited to participate in the Composing Disability conference at George Washington University. Jonathan Hsy organized a wonderful panel titled Digitial Amphibians: Parallel Lives and Media Publics,…
Read moreWisCon 40: academic and non-academic programming
It’s my second year as co-chair of Academic Programming at the feminist science fiction convention WisCon – which has its 40th anniversary this year. Here’s our call for papers: WisCon,…
Read moreTiptree Fellows of 2015: Walidah Imarisha and Elizabeth LaPensée
I am exceedingly delighted to announce that the 2015 cohort of Tiptree Fellows has been announced. They are the truly fabulous Walidah Imarisha and Elizabeth LaPensée. LaPensée expresses herself through…
Read moreNWSA 2015: tweets from Sara Ahmed’s magnificent keynote on Feminism and Fragility
https://storify.com/alothian/feminism-and-fragility
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