FOR READERS & WRITERS: Best Alien Genders
FOR READERS & WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: If we ever encounter real aliens, it’s fairly likely they won’t have the same genders we do. Readers, best … Read more
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FOR READERS: Gender Changes in Classic Sci Fi
FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Jim Comer: Sex changes. Gender reassignment. Gender confirming surgery. We’ve had decades and decades of sf about this topic including both good … Read more
FOR WRITERS: Future Gender
FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer J. Scott Coatsworth: Over the last few decades, our societal understanding of gender has evolved beyond the binary to encompass transgender, non-binary, … Read more
Thorne Smith and “Turnabout.” – Boogieman In Lavender
Thorne Smith’s Turnabout By Jeff Baker The slumber of (this) happily married couple was troubled that night by strangely realistic dreams…Tim got the impression that his body was … Read more
Ooops… Netflix Reboot of Saunt Seiya Anime Series Changes Gender of Popular Character
In summer 2019, Netflix will release its remake of the ‘80s- and 2000s-era anime classic Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac, an animated series about five cosmic warriors defending Earth against … Read more
FOR READERS: Blurring the Gender Spectrum
FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Hank T. Cannon: What books do you like where masculinity/femininity, etc. is portrayed as a continuum? Where characters don’t exist as only … Read more
SCIENCE: Trans Kids’ Brains Resemble Their Gender Identity
A new study led by a Belgian neurologist found that brain activity in transgender people resembles that found in cisgender people of their gender more than their sex assigned at … Read more
FOR WRITERS: Writing A Different Gender
FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Tracy Timmons-Gray: What are your recommendations on how to write a character whose sexual or gender identity is different from your own? … Read more
CALL: Gilla Press wants speculative fiction that explores masculinities
Galli Books, whose tagline is “Socially Conscious Speculative Fiction,” is open to fiction, poetry, and nonfiction submissions for its first anthology, Speculative Masculinities, which seeks to interrogate Western models of masculinity and explore models of non-toxic masculinity. They are particularly looking for submission from marginalized identities and backgrounds.
Read the full post on Dale Cameron Lowry’s blog for writers.
FOR WRITERS: Queer Enough
FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Thianna Durston: Thianna and I discussed this topic, and wanted to come at it in a way that doesn’t inflame too much … Read more