Episode Five: Fan Grrling (feat. Katie Heffner)

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We’re taking a break from focussing on #WomenMakeSF and taking an episode to think about women in SF fandoms and talk about our fan experiences. We are joined by OUR FIRST GUEST on the podcast, science fiction scholar and historian of science Katie Heffner who is an expert on fanzines and the history and position of these artefacts in US/UK fan practice. Katie tells us about women’s use of self-publishing to engage with fans, SF, and science. Sharing with joy not with judgement.

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Intro/Outro music: Inspire Glitches (2017) by Yuriy Shishlov (CC-BY-NC-SA)

MENTIONS

• Katie Heffner (@scifemmefans)
• Prof. Charlotte Sleigh (@KentCHOTS)
• Japanese mecha anime television series Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995-1996)
• The frog was Frogger
• WisCon http://wiscon.net/
• Star Wars
• Star Trek
• Baby Yoda
• Stephen King
• Dean Koontz
• Lightning (1988) – Koontz’s Nazi time travel romance novel
• Farscape
• Stargate
• Serenity (2005) directed by Joss Whedon
• Firefly
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Battlestar Galactica
• Warrior Nun
• Manchester Black – Supergirl
• Slan by A.E. van Vogt
• Our first article together: Chambers, Amy C. & R. Lyle Skains (2015). ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the multimodal mash-up’, Participations 12(1): 102-16.
• The Big Bang Theory
• Fantastic Mr Fox (2009) directed by Wes Anderson (The Complete Clustercuss)
• Spockanalia – the first Star Trek fanzine
• Abigail Derecho’s 2006 concept of the ‘archontic’ text
• Neil Gaiman’s Doctor Who episode ‘The Doctor’s Wife’ (Season 6: episode 4, 2011) – where the TARDIS is placed in the body of a woman named Idris (Suranne Jones)
• Hugh Howey’s Wool trilogy
• EL James the author of the Fifty Shades Trilogy
• Wonderbox Publishing http://wonderboxpublishing.com/
• Hugo Gernsback, editor of pulp magazines incl. Amazing Stories
• Amy’s piece on Amazing Stories and SF pulp mag covers
• Hectograph printing (how make a hectogram)
• [It Must Be Jelly ‘Cos You Know] Jam Don’t Shake
• Mimeograph 
• Myrtle R. ‘Morojo’ Douglas – the Mother of SF Conventions
• Esperanto – the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language.
• LASFS – lasfs.org
• Forrest J Ackerman
• Russ Chauvenet – coined the term fanzine in 1940
• Metropolis (1927) directed by Fritz Lang
• WorldCon http://www.worldcon.org/
• Filking
• White Girls (2018) by Hilton Als
• Archive of Our Own (AO3)
• FanFiction.Net
• Vagrant Queen
• Emergence
• Casablanca (1942) directed by Michael Curtiz
• Killjoys
• Some Like It Hot (1959) directed by Billy Wilder
• Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
• X-Files
• Orson Scott Card – author of Ender’s Game (1985)
• Defiance – as a tv show and game released simultaneously where game play can affect the plotlines of the show
• Avenger’s Endgame (2019) directed by the Russo brothers
• Tilda Swinton plays The Ancient One (a Tibetian monk) in the Marvel Cinematic Universe