The Fifty-Sixth Down Under Feminists Carnival
Welcome to the fifty-sixth month of Down Under Feminists Carnival goodness. I am your host, Chally, and I am glad …
Tag Archives: science fiction and fantasy
Two kinds of whiteness: reimagining white people in fantasy and science fiction
A pretty common trope in science fiction and fantasy is to have fictional races stand in for Earth ones. The …
Race in “The Women Men Don’t See”
So, two years after writing what has been far and away one of the most popular things I’ve written on …
Linksplosion: a bit of everything edition
Boundaries, by Nahida at the fatal feminist, which reminded me of Touch: Understanding that you are not entitled to someone …
The heavy centre
I was playing around with writing a piece for today on James Tiptree, Jr., and ethical literary fabrications, in response …
Some opening thoughts on race in (and as) science fiction dystopia(s)
I have a feeling that this is going to turn into a longer essay one day soon. Setting down some …
Four years in a world without Octavia Butler.
A year ago today I wrote a tribute to Octavia Butler on the anniversary of her death. I’m presenting it …
Talking down disability while talking down to young people
Contains spoilers for A Darkling Plain, so be warned! I’ve just finished up Philip Reeve’s Hungry Cities books. They’re really …
Me, elsewhere
Six posts in one! Here are the posts I’ve been writing that haven’t been cross-posted here. From Feministe: This is …
Review: “The Women Men Don’t See” by James Tiptree, Jr.
In honour of the 94th anniversary of Alice Sheldon’s birth, which was a few days ago, here is a review/analysis …
Racefail continues much as one might expect, but I had been optimistic.
Racefail ’09 continues. Of course it does. It’s almost unbelievable that there’s such little impact on some white people, but …
Feminist science fiction blogging: James, Raccoona and Alice
Over the next couple of weeks I’m running a feminist science fiction series. It’s not quite as fantabulous as I …
It’s time for a Racefail update!
You may recall my post of a few weeks ago summarising recent events in SF fandom. It started off as …
Ace
Edit: this post has also been published at Hoyden About Town. Additionally, it has been linked at The TARDIS Gazette …
Octavia E. Butler died three years ago today
Edit: io9 linked this post. Welcome to all the readers coming in. If you’d like to read more of my …
