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FEMSPEC
An interdisciplinary feminist journal dedicated to science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore, and other supernatural genres.
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Femspec
Dec 2, 20243 min read
MoM Annual Academic & Arts Conference 2025 (CFP)
MoM Annual Academic & Arts Conference 2025 FUN, SEX & CRYING OUT LOUD – 25th ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE March 14-16, 2025 St. Petersburg,...
Femspec
Nov 30, 20243 min read
MoM Annual Academic & Arts Conference 2025
FUN, SEX & CRYING OUT LOUD – 25th ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE March 14-16, 2025 St. Petersburg, Florida & Online CFP – Deadline, Dec. 15...
Femspec
Nov 25, 20241 min read
Wemoon 2025: Gaìa Rhythms for Women
Wemoon 2025: Gaìa Rhythms for Women is a 240 pp date book filled with astrology, art and poetry put out by Mother Tongue Ink in Oregon on...
Femspec
Nov 20, 20242 min read
Editorial Introduction to Issue 24.2
Batya Weinbaum Although the journal is currently edited by a robust collective, I am taking my turn at writing the introduction to this...
Femspec
Oct 28, 20244 min read
A Hidden Gem at Comic-Con
The international celebration of all things pop culture known as the San Diego Comic-Con occured this summer from July 25-28th at the San...
Femspec
Oct 13, 20243 min read
A WORLD WITHOUT WOMEN?: THAT TIME WILL COME by MARTHA TWINE
The book That Time Will Come, set in the year 2350, begins with an Asian woman pleading with Goddess Kali to give her a son this time,...
Femspec
Sep 20, 20241 min read
Help Finish the Shaushķa Goddess Statue
More information here: https://gofund.me/c94d2dd2
Femspec
Sep 5, 20243 min read
Review of Lisa Vogel’s 2024 We Can Live Like This…a Memoir of a Culture 249 pp. Billie Books, POB 3828, Berkeley CA 94703.
By Batya Weinbaum This book is dedicated to “all the sisters who forged a new life in the woods of Michigan.” Available through...
Femspec
Aug 27, 20243 min read
Octavia E. Butler’s “Eerily Accurate” Prediction For 2024
Given the frequent headlines about wildfires, flooding and record heat, Octavia E. Butler’s vision for 2024 in Parable of the Sower seems...
Femspec
Jul 19, 20242 min read
A Worthwhile Fantasy, IF Falls Short of Remarkable
When Bea (Cailey Fleming) goes to New York to stay with her grandmother while her father (John Krasinski) has surgery, she discovers that...
Femspec
Jul 9, 20243 min read
KINGDOM of THE PLANET OF THE APES: A Serviceable, Unexciting Reboot
Sci-Fi in scope and post-apocalyptic in theme, KINGDOM of THE PLANET OF THE APES tells the story of young Noa. He and two friends are...
Femspec
Jul 2, 20243 min read
Fabulously FURIOSA: Love and the Origins of a Female Leader
George Miller’s futuristic dystopian film FURIOSA is a prequel to 2015’s MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, a production that won six Academy Awards and...
Femspec
Jun 25, 20242 min read
ABIGAIL’s ANGST
ABIGAIL opened in theaters April 19th, 2024. Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (Radio Silence), the film is said by...
Femspec
Jun 18, 20244 min read
Films for Thought: The Evolution of the Blockbuster
Although nothing this summer seems slated to re-create the Barbenhemier effect of 2023, there are a lot of big-name releases planned for...
Femspec
Jun 3, 20243 min read
TAROT and TERROR: An Uncomfortable but Profitable Partnering in Film
Maybe it means audience appeal and box-office earnings -- but partnering the age-old and respected art of divination with terror-thrills...
Femspec
May 1, 202411 min read
On Stuffed Animals and Sentience
Rachael Grad’s stories in Femspec 24.1 imagine a world in which objects of play such as her children’s stuffed animals, take on sentient...
Femspec
Apr 17, 20241 min read
Out soon!: Spring Issue 24.1
See the table of contents for Issue 24.1: Introduction 10-11 Creative...
Femspec
Mar 20, 20241 min read
AB Sees Batya Weinbaum at Artist Studio Tour in Historic Kenwood 2024; Alexis Baum
Listen here: https://audioboom.com/posts/8475027-ab-sees-batya-weinbaum-at-artist-studio-tour-in-historic-kenwood-2024-alexis-baum
Femspec
Feb 18, 20241 min read
Pre-recorded videos for ReadOUT
To support everyone in accessing the videos, please see this link to view the videos: https://www.youtube.com/@ReadOUTLiteraryFestival/pl...
Femspec
Feb 16, 20247 min read
Gretel at Apocalypse: A Review of Leave the World Behind
Mid-February sees the airing of the AARP (PBS, February 17th) and People’s Choice (NBC, Peacock and E!, February 18th) Awards. Because...
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