#icfa40 Afrofuturist Woman panel. Awesome question from the audience: How does SF make for a truer history by denaturalizing the historical narrative?

#icfa40 John Rieder on open access: Research in the humanities is not verifiable; it's answerable within an ongoing dialogue.

#icfa40 Terry Harpold on Gold Fame Citrus: Literary realism is not up to the task of telling the stories that create its conditions of existence. [Inexact]

#icfa40 Jason Embry on Exit West: Immigration not as a border-crossing nationality swap but as a portal, an opportunity for cultural dialogue.

#icfa40 Emily Moore: When do stories speak? When they're told not to!

Solidarity instead of Security as an aim for society.

#SFRA2019 did anyone forget a Pitt notebook full of conference notes at the conference location?? If you're still in town, John R. has it.

Dear SFRA, Unfortunately I must write you today with the news that our planned meeting for July 2020 has been cancelled due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. sfra.org/Coronavirus-Ne…

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Almost out of admin - may need to start actual writing. Someone send me an email quick!

The other day I found an old woman in my front garden picking leaves off the grapevine. She apologised but I told her not to. She said “I’ll make you something nice!” I forgot all about it. Have just found this on my doorstep. Six dolmades!

Browse LUP's free to read Science Fiction Studies journals for 2023 online from SFFTV & Extrapolation via the website, with contributions from @hco7777, Mike Ryder, @GrahamJMurphy1, Geoff King, Keren Omry, 孤 & @doc_chocula. 🧑‍🔬 bit.ly/FreetoRead2023 #freetoread

We're so excited our African sf special issue is out @ #ScienceFictionStudies! Co-editors Gibson Ncube, Ezeiyoke Chukwunonso, Ruth Wenske, I, &the authors think about how to understand African science & speculative fiction in the context of global sf. Let me introduce: muse.jhu.edu/issue/53295

Ruth Wenske suggests the concept of “non-human near-omniscience”, to describe narrators with super-human knowledge. Reading Nnedi Okorafor, PhD🕷️'s Lagoon, she shows how these narrators draw on African animist traditions characterized by relationality more than by absolute power.

Keren Omry develops the concept of “allotropic temporality” to describe how African sf resists the binaries of utopia and dystopia. She draws on works by Namwali, Tlotlo Tsamaase, and Yvette Lisa Ndlovu (Publishing Updates Only).