Call for Papers for Femspec 24.1

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Critical Articles

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MERRY BYRD. The Promise of Janus-Faced Futures: George S. Schuyler’s Black No More & Maurice Carlos Ruffin’s We Cast a Shadow: A Novel 

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NANCY KNOWLES. Collaboration and Subsistence: Alix E. Harrow's Once and Future Witches through an Ecofeminist Lens 

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BRIANA WHITESIDE. Sites of Resistance: Justice, Healing, and Liberation in Octavia E. Butler’s Fledgling 

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Reports from the Femspec Team

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NOLAN BOYD. On Finding an Academic Job in the Humanities in 2023

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KIM HORNER. Why I Started a PhD in Literature at 55

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MIGUEL SEBASTIÁN-MARTÍN. Some Thoughts on Guest-Editing a Special Issue

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Astro Speculations, by Merry Byrd

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Event coverage, by Batya Weinbaum

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Femspec Goes to the Annual MOM (Museum of Motherhood) Conference 

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Femspec Goes to the ASWM (Association for the Study of Women in Mythology) Conference on Waters of Life 

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Femspec Goes to the Cinema Systers Film Festival 

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Books and Media Reviewed

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MARTHA SWIFT.  Inherited Silence: Listening to the Land, Healing the Colonizer Mind, by Louise Dunlap 

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SO YOUNG KOO. Female Heroes in Young Adult Fantasy Fiction: Reframing Myths of Adolescent Girlhood, by Leah Phillips 

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SARAH NOLAN-BRUECK. Coraline: A Closer Look at Studio LAIKA’s Stop-Motion Witchcraft, by Mihaela Mihailova 

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GARY MCDONALD. Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination: A Critical Companion, by Harlan Wilson 

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GARY MCDONALD. Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond, by Douglas Vakoch 

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JANICE DZOVINAR. Okoomian – A Snake Falls to Earth, by Darcie Little Badger 

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SARA TABUYO-SANTACLARA. Extrapolations, by Scott Z. Burns 

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Books and Media Received

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