FEMSPEC
An interdisciplinary feminist journal dedicated to science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore, and other supernatural genres.
Femspec Vol 21, Issue 1, 2021
Editors Corner
BATYA WEINBAUM. Introduction to 21.1
Femspec Retrospective Continued
CANDAS JANE DORSEY. Some Thoughts on the 20th Anniversary of Femspec
Critical Articles
HEIDI CURRAN BOJORES. Bitching Labor: Radicalized, Gendered Labor, in DeConnick-and De Landro's Bitch Planet
MERRY BYRD. The Sankofa Spirit of Afro-futurisms in Who Fears Death and Riot Baby
ZITA E. HUSING. Resisting Colonial Violence: Investigating Transhuman Bodies, (Dis)ability and De/Colonialization in Nisi Shawl’s Everfair
Interviews
REBECCA VINCENT. Spiritual Brokenness and the Healing Presence of the Sacred Feminine. Dispatches from Kohenet D’vorah J. Grenn, Ph.D. Part Two.
In Memoriam
ELEANOR PAM. Betty Friedan's 100th Birthday: Moving the Legacy Forward. Abridged Closing Remarks from the February 4, 2021, Webinar Organized by Veteran Feminists of America
Notes from the Inside
BATYA WEINBAUM. Adjuncting 2020.
Reviews
JENNIE BAKER. Auditing the Superhero: A Review of Natalie Zina Walschots’s Hench
MERRY BYRD. Disaster, Dystopia, and Doubled—Mothering in Devolution, Followers, and Last Ones Left Alive
WINTER ELLIOT. Review of The Glass Hotel.
VALERIE L. GUYANT. A Review of Mulan.
VALERIE L. GUYANT. A Review of Lisa A. Kroger and Melanie R. Anderson’s Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror & Speculative Fiction.
RASHMILA MAITI. Book Review: The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi.
PATRICK WILLIAMS. Changing the Narrative: A Review of Tochi Onyebuchi’s Riot Baby.
Books and Media Received
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