. . . will be right here on September 26th. So send me your nominations by Wednesday September 19th. No restrictions on topics, other than that it should have something to do with feminism in all its many stripes and science fiction/fantasy/spec fic in its many-colored paisleys. Pieces on comics & manga, gaming, anime, and other media are not just welcome, but expected. It would hardly be a carnival without the variety. Posts written between August 13th and September 19th are eligible.
A little note: a while back, I was briefly involved in a plot to get middle school girls interested in science by developing a comic book or manga series with strong, smart, confident and cool sciencey heroines. Though I bowed out of the project, I'd gone pretty far down the road to mapping out one possible permutation and some of the characters are still floating around in my head. I wish they'd been there when I set off for college to major in biology. SF was one of the things that got me interested in doing science and keeps me interested in it. Anybody else have similar experiences? This isn't so much a suggested theme as an excuse to talk about why some of us really like the "hard" science titles as much as fantasy or spec fic, despite the fact that hard SF has always been seen as male territory for both writers and readers. Don't feel constrained by this idea though. If it's got SF/Fantasy/spec fic & feminism somewhere in the mix, send it along.
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