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www.femspec.org We emphasize interdisciplinary approaches, and encourage work on teaching as well as literary, cultural criticism and creative material.
Femspec Journal is an interdisciplinary feminist journal dedicated to science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore and other supernatural genres. Femspec, a peer-reviewed journal, is interested in developing a community of like-minded people engaged in speculating, theorizing, creating and questioning gender across the boundaries, including issues of sexual orientation. We
11/08/2025
Femspec 25.2 is going out as we speak! Going to subscribers. Fmi see
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09/08/2025
25.2 is in production.
We are recruiting a peer review coordinator and creative arts and literature editor.
Both positions are volunteer. Each must subscribe to the journal and attend zoom collective meetings.
Email [email protected] fmi
Yes we still need creative writer reviewers! Send an email to [email protected] with creative writer reviewers in the subject line, ty
23.2 in mail
04/18/2023
23.1, being mailed out now!
Fs23.1, special issue on Black Mirror, has begun being mailed out electronically! Hard copies being printed.
22.2 arrives this week, digital subs already sent out! Spring issue on Black Mirror!
22.2 is in production!
"Femspec - Special Issue on Black Mirror" is now live on the Calls
for Papers website.
cfp | call for papers Femspec special issue: A Feminist Black Mirror? Rethinking Gender and/or Sexuality in the Digital Age through Charlie Brooker’s Dystopia
We need creative writing reviewers, and a WIX website person....dm if interested
Femspec, an interdisciplinary journal dedicated to challenging gender in speculative realms, announces its latest issue. We need a web person with WIX skills to help promote it. Please get in touch via femspec.org
Table of Contents
BATYA WEINBAUM. Introduction to 22.1 10
Critical Essays
ELIZABETH NICHOLS. Heroines and Female Affiliation: Women’s Support Networks in Contemporary Film and Cosplay
LAURA BIRKIN. The Protester’s Tale – The Handmaid Costume as Feminist Dystopian Protest Rhetoric
Creative Work
ALICIA COLE. Amorgos
BATYA WEINBAUM. HOWL Cacophony 2/4/2022
BATYA WEINBAUM. I am Ode to Anne Waldman Woman ALICIA COLE. The Wolds
SYLVIA KELSO. Veracunda Actress/Lucius Gladiator
In Memoriam
SALLY ABBOTT. Carol P. Christ (1945 –2021): She Changed Us, She Touched Us
Notes from the Inside
TOLULOPE ADEUSI. Behind the Scenes
Conference Coverage
LISA YASZEK et. al. Accessing the Feminist Science Fiction Archive MARTHA JOY ROSE. About Mother Studies and the Theory of Motherness
Books and Media Reviewed
COLLECTIVE REVIEW. Don’t Look Up
MERRY BYRD. Healing through Play, a Surrealist Mandate
MERRY BYRD. History’s Long Shadow and Heavy Weight
IRINA KUZMINA. Ishiguro, Kazuo. Klara and the Sun MERRY BYRD. Setting & Sacrifice in Second-Half 2021 Speculative Fiction
NOLAN BOYD. The Wheel of Time, Season One
Dr. Batya Weinbaum, [email protected], femspec.org
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