Her nonfiction book How to Suppress Women's Writing has also been widely shared and summarized
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It may be obvious from the title, but it's worth a content warning -- The Female Man is really, really TERFy Explicitly so, although trans people obviously aren't the focus
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In the dystopian gender war timeline it talks about how the men have coped with the women seceding and declaring war on them by creating trans women out of oppressed lower-caste men to be superior sex slaves
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Joanna Russ did apologize for this plot point later on in life, at a panel, but it... wasn't a great apology Like this is the whole thingpic.twitter.com/4QFSUb7r8Q
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lmao what
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I know, I kept seeing references to people saying "Russ apologized for her transphobia later in life" and couldn't find where the apology was and eventually I dug it up that this is it
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i feel like this is one of those things where russ and the interviewer knew exactly what she was talking about, as did the presumed audience now though it's all just lost to the fog
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They were talking about The Female Man most likely
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oh yes, obviously, i meant the circumstances of her life she alludes to
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Oh I doubt that was shared knowledge, the questioner probably didn't want to pry
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This isn't an interview, it's a Q&A with questions from the audience ("Q" is an anonymous questioner, "SD" is Sam Delany)
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