I joke but I can see how the things I talk about in the piece re Ke Guin might put you off, re passivity, inaction, mistrust of genre violence. As well as the centering of male characters.
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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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I'm glad she's a better person now(giving her the benefit of the doubt), but yeah, that doesn't at all grapple with how she fucked up. How am I to trust the new her will stick without that, even if I buy this statement 100%?
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Well she died in 2011 so it's moot
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