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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist

My feminist SF web-novel Mars Needed Women is complete! 23,300 words in 31 chapters, one chapter posted each day throughout March, the last posted 23 minutes ago as I write this. Check out the cover art.

To read, either use the hashtag #RSMarsNeededWomen or this link to the first chapter: eldritch.cafe/@sfwrtr/11408894 The full novel is in the thread. Just scroll to read.

“A hopeful deeply-dystopian feminist SF story, with thinly veiled jabs at our current world's bad actors making for a bad future. Please note the past tense in the title: Mars Needed Women. The story's women are going to work to bring down the system, at least that part that's oppressing them, in a massive unscheduled disassembly.”

I'll leave it up for you to read for at least a week. After that, I'm revising it for later secondary publication.

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The cover art for Mars Needed Women. The background is of the Mars surface with rover tracks, big rocks, sand, and a greenish sky. There is a triskelion image of Mars, which is a tattoo in the story. Credit NASA and ESA for the photos. The back cover reads as follows: Shanghaied May Ri struggled when the EM goon clamped an aromatic wet rag over her nose and mouth... Waking weightless and nauseated—stuffy head pounding, being floated somewhere—despite grogginess, she eyes-closed punched someone, spinning away to bounce off a wall. The click of cartilage, the thump off a bulkhead, the blare of a warning horn, and "Rig for ring spin!" rang in her ears. A tech clapped a bag over her mouth before she vomited up her last meal, while enduring the blonde's glare as blood beaded around her nose. May Ri glowered back. Sitting on the wall, dragged on her butt, her inner ear then her innards soon informed her the wall was becoming the floor. From the author: “A hopeful deeply-dystopian feminist SF story, with thinly veiled jabs at our current world's bad actors making for a bad future. Please note the past tense in the title: Mars Needed Women. The story's women are going to work to bring down the system, at least that part that's oppressing them, in a massive unscheduled disassembly.”
The March Writever Prompt Card I used for ideas for each chapter of the novel. In March, as the fight for gender equality continues, let’s write it. 1 day 1 word 1 story science fiction🚀 fantastic👻 or fantasy 🗡 Ideally in one thread and with the #writever hashtag 2503.01 — Women 2503.02 — Rights 2503.03 — Housewife 2503.04 — Glue 2503.05 — Mirror 2503.06 — Equality 2503.07 — Consent 2503.08 — Struggle 2503.09 — Ceiling 2503.10 — Exploit 2503.11 — Walk 2503.12 — Emancipation 2503.13 — International 2503.14 — Veil 2503.15 — Freely 2503.16 — Cook 2503.17 — Strike 2503.18 — Abortion 2503.19 — Mental load 2503.20 — Shelter 2503.21 — Empower 2503.22 — Manifest 2503.23 — Intersectional 2503.24 — Work 2503.25 — Echo 2503.26 — Night 2503.27 — Voice 2503.28 — Feather 2503.29 — Matriarchy 2503.30 — Wave 2503.31 — Sorority
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Johnny Taylor

“So on this #TransDayOfVisibility, I see you — the person behind the governmental erasure and deafening public silence. I see your complexity, your resilience, your #humanity that extends far beyond your #gender #identity. And I promise to keep fighting for a world where being seen doesn't come with a side of existential dread.

Because one day, visibility won't be an act of #courage. It will just be #life.”

readtpa.com/p/navigating-trans

The Present Age · Navigating Trans Day of Visibility in Trump's AmericaBy Parker Molloy
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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist

#ScribesAndMakers #TTMD @sfwrtr

@anderlandbooks

Dear RS, could you choose one among your stories that's your favorite? Which one?

I could. It's a fan fiction novel, however, and I don't want to mix this pen name (the SF and Fantasy commercial author) with the other pen name. The good news is the plot lines and the major characters are my creation. I am rewriting many of the stories totally in my own universe, now.

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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

Camila Cavendish (FT) makes an interesting point on the persistant gendered division of labour:

'while there are many programmes encouraging more girls to study STEM subjects, there doesn’t seem to be much equivalent encouraging boys to take English or nursing'...

This seems like an open goal; getting more males into 'traditional' female roles would help the gender balance & might also reduce aspects of gendered discrimination via the experience of work?

a win-win policy?

#workers#gender
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T. T. Perry

Telling Feminist Stories in an Affective Atmosphere of Anti-Genderism: Swedish Gender Scholars Reflect Upon Their Position
Carbin et al., 2024 Nordic J Feminist and Gender Res

"the knowledge production of gender studies as such can be reconfigured as a site for resistance, for detecting openings and creating possible pathways into the future that extend beyond the hegemonic neoliberal, authoritarian one."

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10

#Philosophy#Feminism#Gender
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drei

I tweeted below five years ago, when there was a noisy discourse in the Philippines regarding the word Filipinx:

The Philippines adopted gendered nouns from Spanish (e.g., doktor/doktora, abogado/abogada), but the precolonial versions of our languages had no gender (e.g., manggagamot, manananggol). And since the word Filipina exists today, one can't completely claim that Filipino is a gender-neutral term.

That said, I don’t think I have the right to object to the term Filipinx, as (1) I’m not part of the Filipino-American diaspora, and (2) I have no personal insight into the struggles of minorities, women, or LGBT people in the U.S. context — much less the gender debates among academics and activists there.

When I moved to Australia, I didn’t like the word Filo at all. It didn’t mean anything to me, and it sounded pretentious. Filipino is just as easy to pronounce and understand. But I learned that the term has been embraced for many years by Australians with Filipino ancestry.

The Filipino-Australian community has every right to claim the word, especially if it fosters a sense of identity and inclusivity. I’m now part of this community, and even though I still avoid using the word Filo myself, I respect others’ choice to use it as they please.

I don’t know the struggles of minorities in the U.S. who are misgendered or discriminated against. And instead of dismissing a term that wasn’t really created for me or my feelings in the first place, I would rather hear them out. #language #gender #filo #filipino #filipinx

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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist

#ScribesAndMakers 2503.27 — Were you ever discouraged by great art of someone else?

Only a practicing artist, author, or crafter would ask such an insightful question, from experience; okay, maybe a psychologist would. I believe it is human to compare oneself and one's creations to those who teach us, whether they know they're our teachers or not. We've learned to simulate in our heads the parents or teachers we've grown up with, who mean well or not, who critique without encouraging, who don't emphasize and collaborate with us on next steps, too. We've learned to hear echoes of their voices.

This is one of my personal flaws. Not the comparison part. The part where I judge my effort lacking, never good. Shit. I just experienced it a few days ago on book recommendation day, having encountered an indie writer so good at writing 3rd person that it felt like 1st, whose first chapter compelled me to buy the book.

I compared.

My energy crashed.

I didn't want to write.

But I'm getting better at this, and if you're empathizing (and face it, if'n you're read'n this up to this point, you are), you are learning how to tell your negativity, "Begone!"

I had a chapter to write and publish that day.

I didn't "feel" it. I did it anyway.

I focused on my unique style and how it entertained me. And the story, which surprised me. And that it was practice, regardless.

When I see others self-deprecate, I tell them to stop (or at least tell them notice how poorly they'd treated themselves). Recently I caught a follower deprecate their web-comic. I saw abstraction, minimalism, and a uniquely primitive style and smiled. I think the artist saw themselves as barely able to draw, but their rendering was strong, it set off the dialogue, and had showed motion. Nobody starts off a Rembrandt, and there was only one, ever. Or ever more than one of us. I tell myself this. The first impressionists were ridiculed as lazy. Picasso... Did cubism hit the first day? It's best not to be dear Vincent, tho. Best to strengthen that of which we're capable.

Just write. Just create. If it pleases me, I vow I'll do it better the next time, or I enjoy the thing I've created and move on. Hard. Yes. Persistence? It's key.

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Julia Serano

...pls share widely, "like", etc. FYI: most media outlets wouldn't have allowed me publish this piece as is. so if you appreciate that I make essays like this freely available online, please consider supporting me on Patreon for as little as $1/month!
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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist

#ScribesAndMakers 2503.26 — Ask the expert: if you're a specialist in something, would you answer questions for writers/artists regarding your specialty?

I'll answer, but in public threads as one of my things is helping as many people as I can. Jack or Jill of many trades, but an expert in none? Let's see:

  • I've now watched 102 Korean drama series and many more Japanese anime series, so I have some perspective there.
  • If you've followed me, I fancy myself an experimental chef (fancy being a keyword with multiple meanings).
  • I have some insights into oral traditions (folklore). RS has a degree.
  • I take pretty pictures, but went from a professional DSLR to using an iPhone most of the time.
  • I'm am arguably good at storytelling. My agent said that was the best thing about me. I might be convinced to answer questions like "How do you write a fight scene?" or "Is attention to gender all that important?" or "Is grammar good? Or… It's bad, isn't?"
  • What I am is an expert at being shy, what it feels like, and what that means to a person. You may ask me about that.

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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist

#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2503.25 — Describe your workflow if it had to be 100% analog.

I cannot believe I did this analog, once. I learned to type on a manual typewriter. Completely unpowered, except by punching down keys. Make a mistake? Backspace. White out or type over white powder tape. Figure out where to line feed the carriage and space it forward, returning the carriage. CRLF anyone? Switch to a fresh sheet. Proofreader mark up. Yellow paper first draft. Retype. Blue paper second draft. Retype. White formatted perfectly to send to magazine or perspective agent. I still possess yellow and blue drafts! I did get a Smith Corona electric that let me swap cartridges between black and white out. I was really adept. Couldn't spell. Still can't, but spell check is heaven in comparison.

By the time I got the agent, I had an Epson matrix printer and an Apple ][ with a text editor and floppy drive to save drafts on. Had to beg the publisher to accept matrix printer paper. They HATED it.

Good times.

NOT!!!

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ResearchBuzz: Firehose

Fordham University: Does AI Show Empathy? It Depends on Your Gender, Study Shows . “The researchers fed those posts into three AI platforms—ChatGPT, Inflection Pi, and Bard (now Google Gemini)—and then used a machine learning system to analyze the bots’ responses for their level of empathy. They also included other people’s posted responses to the Reddit messages to have a point of […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/23/fordham-university-does-ai-show-empathy-it-depends-on-your-gender-study-shows/

#ai#aiassisted#emotions
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