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Friday, October 18 • 6:00pm - 6:50pm
Gender in Spec Fiction

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Speculative fiction (particularly sci fi and fantasy) gives us opportunities to explore gender in a lot of new ways, particularly outside the binary. As this seems to be more common, are these explorations of new gender systems truly revolutionary, or do they merely reinforce new gender norms? (E.g. worlds with non-binary genders are super cool, but if people are still assigned to a gender, do trans people still exist?) Do these stories even need to be revolutionary?
Moderators
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Kerrie Seljak-Byrne

Publisher, Augur Magazine
KERRIE C. BYRNE is an autistic, queer, and nonbinary editor/writer/cat lover living in Toronto, ON. They are the Publisher and Editor in Chief of Augur Magazine, where they publish speculative works by Canadian and Indigenous creators, as well as writers from around the world. Their... Read More →

Panelists
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Phoebe Barton

Attendee
Phoebe Barton is a queer trans science fiction writer. Her fiction has appeared in venues such as Analog, and she wrote the interactive fiction game The Luminous Underground for Choice of Games. She has a tendency to do a lot of mathematical equations to make stories turn out right... Read More →
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Elliott Dunstan

Elliott Dunstan is an Ottawa-based historian, poet and author with a special interest in queer history, mental illness, trauma and the places that time forgot. He is currently self-publishing an online serial novel available on his website, and has also been published by Queen of... Read More →
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Mikayla Micomonaco

Attendee, The Web of Queer
Mikayla Micomonaco is an aerospace engineering master’s student. When not desperately writing their thesis, they can be found talking about queer representation and Doctor Who on The Web of Queer podcast and writing about asexual and aromantic representation.
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Avi Silver

Co-founder, The Shale Project
Avi Silver is one of the co-founders of "The Shale Project" and author of the project's second novel, "Two Dark Moons". Through Shale, they have also worked as the editor for Sienna Tristen's "The Heretic's Guide to Homecoming", and authored the web serial "Tales from a Library... Read More →

Friday October 18, 2019 6:00pm - 6:50pm EDT
Salon D - 20 seats
  Literary, Panel

Attendees (34)