Tag: feminist
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Feminist Dystopias, African Fiction, Harry Potter, and more…
Why are feminist dystopias so hot right now? An author sheds light (EW) Alongside fellow recent feminist dystopias like Siobhan Adcock’s The Completionist and Leni Zumas’ Red Clocks, Vox reflects ongoing conversations around the mistreatment of women through a near-apocalyptic lens. In this case, Dalcher imagines a near-future U.S. in which women have been banned from speaking more than 100…
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Sci-Fi Feminist Icons, Fan Fiction, Nnedi Okorafor and more…
Science Fiction’s Under-Appreciated Feminist Icon (The Atlantic) Feminist science fiction has a notable history, but the genre has long been dominated by stories written by, and solely featuring, men. I can’t help but feel awkward reading one of the most celebrated short stories of the genre, Isaac Asimov’s 1941 tale “Nightfall,” which contains no women at…
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Harry Potter turns 20, Queer South Asian Fiction, and more…
It’s Pride Month, and here are five queer South Asian speculative stories to raise a toast (Scroll.in) The speculative fiction community has progressed right along, and it’s hard to find a science fiction or fantasy story these days that is openly homophobic in its plot or insinuation. And it’s not only the foreign or white…
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Queer Writers, Women’s Voices and the Future of Sci-Fi…
The Women’s Prize for Fiction: Why female voices matter more than ever (The Telegraph) Yet this is surely what we need now more than ever – female protagonists who are blunt and sassy; snarky but strong. Characters who are not necessarily likeable or even admirable, but entirely themselves without any inhibitions. And that means rescuing overlooked…
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