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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Item Open Access [Issue no. 12 Cover](Fembot Collective, 2017-11) Smillie, TuesdayItem Open Access The NishPossessed: Reading Le Guin in Indian Country(Fembot Collective, 2017-11) Dillon, Grace L.Item Open Access Ursula Le Guin’s Fiction as Inspiration for Activism(Fembot Collective, 2017-11) Brown, Adrienne MareeItem Open Access Instantiating Imaginactivism: Le Guin’s The Dispossessed as Inspiration(Fembot Collective, 2017-11) Haran, JoanThis 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.Item Open Access Imagining a Trans World(Fembot Collective, 2017-11) Cárdenas, MichaLe 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.Item Open Access 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.Item Open Access 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.Item Open Access Introduction: Radical Speculation and Ursula K. Le Guin(Fembot Collective, 2017-11) Lothian, Alexis