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The Spearhead on Sci-Fi: NO GIRLS ALLOWED!

Social Commentary post by Kelsey Wallace, October 19, 2009 - 7:25pm; tagged fantasy, female-gay ghetto, gender norms, sci-fi, The Spearhead.

Blogger "Whiskey" has an article up on men's culture site The Spearhead" today called "The Feminization of Science Fiction (and Fantasy)". The gist of the piece is that (imagine this being said in a little-boy-pouty-voice) girls are coming in ruining science fiction and fantasy for boys with their stupid emotions and even stupider buying power! No fair!

Artist's rendering of "Whiskey" and a sci-fi friend

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Fraking good news

Raising Hell post by Rachel Fudge, March 19, 2008 - 4:25pm; tagged battlestar galactica, sci-fi.

I've got two weeks to rethink my babyproofing strategy of relegating the TV to the closet, because the new season of Battlestar Galactica starts up on April 4. Even if, like me, you aren't much of a sci-fi fan, BSG is worth watching for its complex storylines, shades-of-gray take on morality, and especially for its unspoken feminist agenda in which gender is largely irrelevant.

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Shelf Lives

Paging Through Feminism’s Lost & Found Classics

Article by Jyoti Roy, Andi Zeisler, Rachel Fudge, Jennifer Baumgardner, Noah Berlatsky, Evelyn Sharenov, appeared in issue Lost & Found; published in 2008; filed under Books; tagged early black feminists, feminist fiction, feminist history, marriage, sci-fi, Valerie Solanas.

In the 1976 cross-country race film The Gumball Rally, the late, great Raul Julia rips off his rearview mirror and tosses it over his shoulder, saying “What’s behind me is not important.”  

He didn’t win the race.  

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Fan/tastic Voyage

A Journey Into the Wide, Wild World of Slash Fiction

Article by Noy Thrupkaew, published in 2003; filed under Books; tagged erotica, fan fiction, fantasy, gay, gender, gender bending, homoerotic, homosexuality, queer, romance, sci-fi, science fiction, slash, slash fiction, tv.

The kiss was not at all like Kirk had expected... “Spock, wait... wait,” he whispered desperately.... “I can’t... We can’t... You... God, Spock... I want you. Don’t you understand? I want you so much!” Kirk still couldn’t believe that the Vulcan knew what he was getting himself into.

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A Galaxy of Our Own

Searching for black women in science-fiction film

Article by Elyce Rae Helford, appeared in issue Is Biology Destiny?; published in 2001; filed under Film; tagged octavia butler, race, sci-fi, science fiction.

In the ’90s, the black man suddenly invaded the blockbuster science-fiction and fantasy film. African-American males found expanded roles for themselves in a genre that had previously been blindingly white. We finally have a celluloid landscape in which Will Smith and Wesley Snipes get to represent heroic manhood for the masses, but hip and powerful black women have been overlooked by the Hollywood machine so far.

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