Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology; Issue no. 12: Radical Speculation and Ursula K. Le Guin (November 2017)

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    Communizing Care in The Left Hand Of Darkness
    (Fembot Collective, 2017-11) Aizura, Aren Z.
    In this essay I combine a reading of The Left Hand of Darkness with autobiographical accounts of queer/trans reproduction and childrearing. Contrasting my own experiments in “50/50” parenting with the vision of care elaborated in the novel, I draw attention to the importance of caring labor to radical queer and trans politics more generally.
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    Imagining a Trans World
    (Fembot Collective, 2017-11) Cárdenas, Micha
    Le Guin’s work is well known as a foundation of feminist science fiction’s analysis of gender. But can contemporary readers understand The Left Hand of Darkness as a transgender text? To demonstrate what is gained by reading trans authors, I offer my own series of poems, Pregnancy, as an example.
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    Instantiating Imaginactivism: Le Guin’s The Dispossessed as Inspiration
    (Fembot Collective, 2017-11) Haran, Joan
    This article introduces the concept of imaginactivism to investigate the ways in which interpretive and activist communities are formed, inspired and reinvigorated by fictional cultural production. Several instantiations of imaginactivism, including a film pitch, a collection of short stories, and a panel organized for the Tiptree Symposium are discussed.
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    Introduction: Radical Speculation and Ursula K. Le Guin
    (Fembot Collective, 2017-11) Lothian, Alexis
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    [Issue no. 12 Cover]
    (Fembot Collective, 2017-11) Smillie, Tuesday
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    The NishPossessed: Reading Le Guin in Indian Country
    (Fembot Collective, 2017-11) Dillon, Grace L.
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    Radical Imagination And The Left Hand of Darkness
    (Fembot Collective, 2017-11) Smillie, Tuesday
    “Radical Imagination and The Left Hand of Darkness” considers creative practice as crucial in the process of world building. Looking to Ursula K. Le Guin as a model for imagination as a radical practice we find that the critical question is how we proceed as our failures become clear.
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    Ursula Le Guin’s Fiction as Inspiration for Activism
    (Fembot Collective, 2017-11) Brown, Adrienne Maree