#women in sci-fi

[thatgirlayvan]

Checkout our brand new show Sci-fi Queens. This is a show where we discuss women in sci-fi and actual women in the sciences. In this episode we introduce ourselves and we talk about katya echazarreta.

#women in science #youtube video #women in sci-fi #star trek #doctor who #SG-1 #Sam Carter #Fringe #Youtube

[caitykat]

Book musings- Ringworld by Larry Niven

I’ve been listening to this as an audiobook while driving, running, biking etc. I’m only on chapter 8 but one thing has really been bugging me.

Is Larry Niven a mysoginist?

His Kzinti species is identified as male with non-sentient females for reproduction. His Pearsons Puppeteers have three individuals involved in reproduction with the one who is not labeled with the pronoun “he” as a non-sentient.

And his main female character is literally a 20 year old involved In the plot because she was having sex with him and had potentially been “bred for luck. ” The male MC keeps expecting her to be an idiot and not understand the danger she’s facing and is trying to make decisions for her.

I get that this was published in 1970 and all, and that science fiction is filled with mysoginistic bullshit that can’t even pass the Bechdel test. But it’s bothering me.

Will it get better? Is all his writing like this? Is the story worth listening to with a grain(boulder) or salt?

I’m listening to Ringworld by Larry Niven, narrated by Tom Parker on my Audible app. Try Audible and get it here: https://www.audible.com/pd?asin=B002V5D7KC&source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=player_overflow

#science fiction #larry niven #ringworld #women in sci-fi #sci fi misogyny #bechdel test #70’s sci-fi #scififantasy #sci fi #book musings #book review #audible #classic science fiction #classic sci fi

[mtmcguire]

Respite and random thoughts about faith…

Blimey, this week’s been a bit of a roller coaster.  As you know, last week I was having extreme difficulties with what felt like bowel-based armageddon. I’m going to relate the happy ending of that story (spoiler: I didn’t die in the end even though I was genuinely beginning to wonder which would go first, the virus or me). I should also run this with the caveat that it is mostly supposed to be…

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#advice from writers #author blog #author blogs #faith #I fucked this up so you don&039;t have to #istuffedthisupsoyoudon’thaveto #M T McGuire #Mary Fails at Modern Life #off topic #trying to be a writer #women in sci-fi #women writers

[kerenobara]

The world is yearning for more women authors/ characters in Sci-Fi.

When looked at objectively, with no bias whatsoever, one can see that for years, Sci-Fi has been dominated by male creators and male characters. I believe that the world is yearning for a change. We are ready for something new, something exciting. Something that will drive the next generation of film, television, and novels.

The entertainment industry as it is right now is static. I believe that an exciting, dazzling, and unique female character will take the world by storm within the next generation. She will be a hero. The world created around her will be filled with expansion, excitement, alignment and progress.

This female hero is the future. She is exciting, she is young, energetic, adventurous. brilliant, witty, and a dare-to-do-it kind of girl.

Within the 2020′s we will see the rise of this archetype.

And nothing, absolutely nothing, is stopping her.

#Keren Obara #Sci-Fi #Wes Burt #Princess Shuri #Women in sci-fi #Next Generation #wakanda forever

[nonolithic]

Fire Heart

#art #cyberpunk #afrofuturism #cyber punk #fashion #afro futurism #anime #street art #street wear #afro anime #afrofantasy #black women are beautiful #sci fi #scifiart

[coochiequeens]

(CNN)Start a conversation about the power of Afrofuturism, and it won't be long before "Star Trek" legend Nichelle Nichols's name is dropped. 

As the iconic Lt. Uhura, the actress made television history with her portrayal of a 23rd-century communications officer aboard the "Star Trek" USS Enterprise. It was one of the first times a Black woman was cast in a position of power on TV -- and it was in a science fiction series, no less.

The result was radical, says Atlanta-area comic book creator and game designer Dedren Snead. "Seeing her as a Black woman on the show ... that was ... who was that?" Snead tells W. Kamau Bell on Sunday's "United Shades of America." "It was just, I never saw Black people in fantasy in that sense."

A mission from Dr. King

Lt. Uhura may have been a fictional character, but her on-screen authority in a futuristic world held immense influence at a time when Black Americans were fighting for civil rights.

Nichols, who grew up near Chicago and began performing as a teen, had her heart set on Broadway. As the first season drew to a close in 1967, Nichols was ready to move on.

As the story goes, Nichols was at an event when she was told a "Star Trek" fan wanted to meet her. "She's thinking it's going to be this pimply-faced kid," comic book designer Afua Richardson recounts to Bell. "But it turned out to be Martin Luther King Jr. He said, 'Your show is the only show that I will allow my kids to watch.' She eventually told him that she was planning on leaving the show, and he gave a command, and he said, 'No, you cannot leave the show, it is too important.'"

King shared with Nichols how her work was impacting generations of Black Americans who were watching her play a non-stereotypical role. Nichols took King's words to heart, staying with "Star Trek" through its end in 1969.

"That was the greatest thing," Nichols told CNN in 2014 of her encounter with the civil rights movement icon. "That was greater than anything else, to be told that by Dr. Martin Luther King, because he was my leader. So I stayed and I never regretted it."

Recruiting for NASA

By choosing to stay, Nichols didn't just remain in an influential part. She set in motion a chain of events that would alter the course of history. 

The same year "Star Trek" came to a close in 1969, the United States successfully landed two men on the moon. All eyes were on the future of space flight, but the growing field also had a glaring deficiency.

"There were no women, and there were no minorities in the space program -- and that's supposed to represent the whole country?" Nichols told CNN in 2014. She recalled thinking, "Not in this day and age. We just absolutely cannot have that. I can't be a part of that."

Enlisted by NASA in the late 1970s, Nichols set out on a new mission to help recruit women and people of color into the space race. "I am going to bring you so many qualified women and minority astronaut applicants for this position," Nichols has recalled saying, "that if you don't choose one ... everybody in the newspapers across the country will know about it." 

Her work helped bring aboard Guion Bluford, the first African American to go into space, and Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space. Mae Jemison, the first African American woman in space, also points to Nichols as the source of her inspiration.

"Science is not a boy's game, it's not a girl's game. It's everyone's game. It's about where we are and where we're going," Nichols told CNN. "Space travel benefits us here on Earth. And we ain't stopped yet. There's more exploration to come."

Sheena McKenzie contributed to this report. Watch "United Shades of America" on Sundays at 10 p.m. ET/PT.

#Rest in Power Nichelle Nichols #Women in sci-fi #Women in science #women in space #Women in NASA #Civil rights and sci-fi

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Cat-Women of the Moon (1953)

#cat-women of the moon gif #50s sci-fi #b-movies #50s movies #susan morrow #carol brewster #arthur hilton #1950s #1953 #gif #chronoscaph gif

[cultofthewyrm]

by Tian Kou

#fantasy art #sci fi #character design #armored women

[legendarytragedynacho]

Mars Needs Women (1968) Dir, Larry Buchanan

#mars needs women #larry buchanan #sci fi film #vintage science fiction #vintage sci fi #old films

[technicallyclassyperfection]

Via print:

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[pacific-chrome]

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[mtmcguire]

We're not at home to Mr Cockup. Oh no, no, no, no.

Except we so smecking are. Mwahahargh! Yes he’s a bit fucked off. I was going to do a post about writing this week—and accompanying things—but the accompanying things got a bit out of hand and so I’ve gone off on a completely non-writing related tangent. Do you remember a refrain from the Blackadder II episode where he’s made Lord High Executioner? ‘We’re not at home to Mr Cockup!’ he tells his…

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#an author with children #author blog #dementia #full time mum writing #I fucked this up so you don&039;t have to #istuffedthisupsoyoudon’thaveto #M T M Makes a complete tit of herself #M T McGuire #off topic #trying to be a writer #women in sci-fi #women writers #writers

[elericelery]

Clementine omg its my bestie clementine hiiiiii

#midnight burger #clementine midnight burger #my art <3 #my theory is that she doesn’t actually have anything sci fi going on #bisexual people can just do that #i love her so much #top ten fictional women i have cried about

[nonolithic]

Amped

#art #cyberpunk #cyber punk #afrofuturism #fashion #scifi aesthetic #scifiart #sci fi art #afro futurism #anime #generative art #black women are beautiful #street wear #street art #retro scifi #scififantasy

[timetravellingkitty]

Mark my words, soon there will be a booktok trend along the lines of "romance is the girl genre, only men read philosophy and sci-fi 😒 this book is about the Naxalite movement but I'm just a silly lil girl I don't know what they're talking about 😵 can someone explain Crime and Punishment so that the girls can understand?"

#SICK SICK SICK OF THIS #no one tell them frankenstein a book written by a WOMAN is considered the first true sci-fi story #like that roman empire historian #you just love getting off to calling women dumb i'm sick of this #anti booktok #misogyny #books #reva speaks

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Cat-Women of the Moon (1953)

#cat-women of the moon gif #marie windsor gif #giant spider gif #50s sci-fi #b-movies #50s movies #arthur hilton #1950s #1953 #gif #chronoscaph gif