The WisCon Chronicles

The WisCon Chronicles is a collage of essays, interviews, panel notes and transcripts, and short fiction documenting and celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of WisCon, the annual feminist science fiction literary festival held on Memorial Day Weekend in Madison, Wisconsin. The world's largest feminist science fiction convention, which many of the sf genre's luminaries attend, WisCon has become so popular that the ceiling limiting attendance to 1000 participants tops out months in advance. More than half those attending are women; and since the convention is openly feminist, women's issues dominate the programming. People attend to meet up with friends from other parts of the country (or the world) whom they?ve come to know online; they attend because the programming goes far beyond thefeminism 101? that is the most they can hope for from most other science fiction conventions. But above all they come to experience the kind of community they can?t get elsewhere.

Introduction	p. 5
The WisCon Questions; A Coven of People Who Attended WisCon 30 Answer Random Personal Questions Posed by Eileen Gunn
Q&A: Julie Phillips	p. 8
Wonder Woman: Lesbian or Dyke? Paradise Island as a Woman's Community	p. 9
Q&A: Suzy Charnas	p. 17
Welcome Back to the Beginning	p. 19
Feminist Think Tanks: Panel transcript notes	p. 22
A Think Tank Thing for Feminists	p. 32
Q&A: Carol Emshwiller	p. 38
Q&A: Mark Rich	p. 39
Q&A: Ellen Klages	p. 40
Lord of the Monsters	p. 41
Q&A: Ted Chiang	p. 50
Q&A: Ursula K. Le Guin	p. 51
Q&A: Liz Henry	p. 52
Notes on the Feminist Romance Panel	p. 53
Is Reading Feminist SF a Theory-Building Activity?: Panel transcript notes	p. 57
Q&A: Lisa Tuttle	p. 73
Piercy's Gendered Cyborgs: Hope, Threat, and Blurred Boundaries	p. 74
Q&A: Diantha Day Sprouse	p. 82
Uncomfortable Politics in Feminist Writing: Panel transcript notes	p. 84
Notes and Commentary on the "Cultural Appropriation and Writing Fantasy Outside the Western Tradition" Panel	p. 98
Researching WisCon Stories: Revisionist History or Re-visioning the Past with the Future in Mind	p. 102
Q&A: K. Tempest Bradford	p. 107
Q&A: Spike Parsons	p. 108
Who Wants a Revolution? Will a Reform Do?: Panel transcript notes	p. 109
We Aren't Civilized Yet: Reflections from the WisCon 30 Panel on Women Warriors	p. 132
"A Man Is Like A Nut": Gender and Magic in Ursula K. Le Guin's Later Earthsea Novels	p. 143
The Legendary Joanna Russ, Interviewed by Samuel R. Delany: Transcript	p. 155
Q&A: Jeanne Gomoll	p. 164
A Forty-Year-Old Con-Virgin Goes to WisCon	p. 167
Sympathy and Power: L. Timmel Duchamp Asks Samuel R. Delany a Question	p. 170
Dry Eyes	p. 179
No Man's Land: A short story	p. 183
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