Feminist and non-western science-fiction
Sophia Al-Maria, The Gaze of Sci-Fi Wahabi blog - An excellent resource for Gulf Futurism.
Florence Okoye - An Afrofuturist reading list - articles, book recommendations and videos on Afrofuturism
Donna Haraway,The Promises of Monsters: A Regenerative Politics for Inappropriate/d Others
- Octavia Butler’s writing including:
- The essay The Lost Races of Science-Fiction
- The Parable of the Sower
- Speech Sounds
Re-writing the Future at Site Gallery
- Samuel Delany’s writing including
- Dhalgren
- Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones
- Interview: Samuel R. Delany and Takayuki Tatsumi
- Arika, Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist
Seized by the Left Hand ~ The Dundee Contemporary Arts exhibition that thinks to Le Guin’s novel The Left Hand of Darkness as guiding star. Curated by Eoin Dara and Kim McAleese
Sophia Al-Maria, Sad Sack, available via Good Press
Strange Horizons ~ An online Speculative Fiction magazine that reminds us that, ‘Speculative fiction has a vibrant and radical tradition of stories that can make us think, can critique society, and can show us how it could be otherwise, for better or worse. We aim to be part of that tradition, and to update it: in the twenty-first century, speculative fiction must be a global, inclusive literature. We want to showcase work that challenges us and delights us, by new and established writers from diverse backgrounds and with diverse concerns.’
The Carrier Bag Anthology, Site Gallery
Ursula K Le Guin’s writing, in particular:- A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be
- Always Coming Home and accompanying album Music and Poetry of the Kesh made with Todd Barton
- The Dispossessed
- The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
- The Left Hand of Darkness
- World is the Word for Forest
- We See A Different Frontier: A postcolonial speculative fiction anthology, ed. Fabio Fernandes and Djibril al-Ayad
- Acknowledging science-fiction’s trope of colonisation this is an important book that reminds us, ‘Utopian themes like The Final Frontier, Discovering New Worlds and Settling the Stars appeal to a colonial romanticism, especially recalling the American West. But what is romantic and exciting to the privledged, white, anglophone reader is a reminder of exploitation, slavery, rape, genocide and other crimes of colonialism to the rest of the world.’
Ayesha Hameed, Black Atlantis lecture-performance at Goldsmiths
Joanna Russ, SF and Technology as Mystification
SLOW GLASS AS CURATORIAL PRACTICEI. RE-FRAMING SCIENCE-FICTION 1.1 On Re-framing1.2 Critiquing macho science-fiction1.3 Annotations- Slow Glass1.4 Feminist Strategies1.5 ResourcesII. EXPERIMENTS: FIELD NOTES 2.1 Permeating disciplines2.2 Refraction 2.3 DiffractionIII. ENTANGLING 3.1 Shifting Temporalities3.2 Re-turning3.3 Intra-acting 3.4 ResourcesIV. FURTHER READING 4.1 Glossary4.2 Research fragments
SLOW GLASS AS CURATORIAL PRACTICEI. RE-FRAMING SCIENCE-FICTION 1.1 On Re-framing1.2 Critiquing macho science-fiction1.3 Annotations- Slow Glass1.4 Feminist Strategies1.5 ResourcesII. EXPERIMENTS: FIELD NOTES 2.1 Permeating disciplines2.2 Refraction 2.3 DiffractionIII. ENTANGLING 3.1 Shifting Temporalities3.2 Re-turning3.3 Intra-acting 3.4 ResourcesIV. FURTHER READING 4.1 Glossary4.2 Research fragments