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Carnival of Feminist SF

Liz Henry

First published 2009
Series The WisCon Chronicles #3
Publisher Aqueduct Press
Format Trade Paperback
Type Nonfiction
Cover art L. A.
Pages xv+249
Price $18.00
ISBN 9781933500300

  • Data from Internet Archive scan
  • "First Edition: 2009"
  • Record had an unsourced date of "2009-07-01" while Amazon.com has "2009-08-01" as of 2023-11-23.
  • First printing per number line
  • Cover artist credit per copyright page
  • Interior artist credit ("Cartoons of authors") per copyright page
  • Essays are followed, on last page of essay, with a brief biographic blurb of the author(s) and some have a cartoon drawing of author(s)
  • "Women and Hard SF", "Fanfic and Slash 201", "Elves and Dwarves", and "Can Internet Drama Change the World?" are transcripts of panel discussions where transcriber is not credited
  • "It's Not About Identity" is a panel transcript that is credited as "Transcript notes by Josh Lukin with additions in italics by Liz Henry"

Page Title Author(s) Type
2 The Matter of Tongues: Being Her GoH Speech for WisCon 32, May 25, 2008 L. Timmel Duchamp Essay
13 Intelligibility, Framing, and the Newbie Writer Shweta Narayan Essay
20 Writing in My Skin Shveta Thakrar Essay
24 Shameful, Sacred Truths Rose Lemberg Essay
28 Gamers and Gaming at WisCon 32 Robyn Fleming Essay
34 A Gamer's Commentary on Maureen McHugh's Guest of Honor Speech John Kim Essay
38 Robot Uprising The Robot Collective Essay
42 Where are the Women? A Follow-Up to the WisCon 32 "Women and Hard SF" Panel, May 2008 Sue Lange Essay
50 Women and Hard SF uncredited Essay
59 WisCon 32 Panel Report: The Curious Boundaries of YA Fantasy Mystickeeper Essay
62 Nothing But Mammals: The Trouble with Boundaries in Young Adult Literature Alaya Dawn Johnson Essay
66 Let's Build a World Ted Infinity Essay
74 WisCon and POC-Only Spaces K. Tempest Bradford Essay
79 Not Just Japan Rachel Kronick Essay
89 Shoujo Bodies—A Spontaneous Panel K. Joyce Tsai Essay
100 The End of Original Sin: A Meditation on Aikido, the Marq'ssan Cycle, and the Elemental Logic Series Nancy Jane Moore Essay
110 Fanfic and Slash 201 uncredited Essay
121 Panel Review: Fanfiction & Slash 201 JJ Pionke Essay
123 Last Time, on Battlestar Galactice... Panel Review JJ Pionke Essay
125 Panel Report: Publishing, Profit, Agendas, and Ideals: The Eclipse One Cover Debate Micole Sudberg Essay
131 Notes on the Eclipse One Cover Debate Janice Dawley Essay
136 Elves and Dwarves: The Racism Inherent in Fantasy uncredited Essay
145 A Request, to Authors of Traditional Fantasy Novels Sigrid Ellis Essay
148 Panel Report: Elves and Dwarves: The Racism Inherent in Fantasy John Kim Essay
150 Response to the Elves and Dwarves Panel Bridget Collins Essay
152 It's Not About Identity: Transcript with Several Responses Josh Lukin & Liz Henry Essay
166 Response to "It's Not About Identity" Micole Sudberg Essay
169 Reflecting on Josh's and Micole's Notes on the "It's Not About Identity" Panel L. Timmel Duchamp Essay
172 Notes on the Narrative and Politics Panel Victoria Janssen Essay
174 Comments on the Dissecting Privilege Panel Janice Mynchenberg & Beth Plutchak Essay
189 Utopia, Fiction, and Fandom: Conflict, Community, and "Queer Female Space" Alexis Lothian Essay
201 "My mother, that old xenophobe," Robyn Flemming Poem
203 Response to Internet Drama Panel: Four Things I Get from Internet Drama Micole Sudberg Essay
205 Can Internet Drama Change the World? uncredited Essay
218 Not All Trolls Lurk Under Bridges Cynthia Gonsalves Essay
221 An Open Letter to Zathlazip and the Rest of WisCon 32 Hederahelix Essay
230 Trolling for a (Not So Good) Time JJ Pionke Essay
234 Safe Spaces vs. LOLspace in the WisCon Trolling Liz Henry & Debbie Notkin Essay
243 Come on Sugar Julia Starkey Essay
245 A Modest Proposal Hanne Blank Essay
248 The Open Source Backup Project Vito Excalibur Essay
v Introduction: What Happens at WisCon Doesn't Stay at WisCon Liz Henry Essay