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Post-viewing/playing discussion of Science/Speculative Fiction films and digital fictions made by women.
womenmakesf hosts Women Make SF, a society show with 13 episodes published.
In the NOVEMBER edition, we’ll be talking about Kathryn Bigelow’s underrated science fiction thriller Strange Days, which was originally released on 13 October 1995 in the US and worldwide in February 1996. In part a res
In the OCTOBER episode, we are joined by Dr Anna McFarlane (University of Glasgow), and we’ll be talking about recent women-directed SF with a focus on ReproFutures: imagined near futures of pregnancy, gestation, childbi
We're back! On Coralie Fargeat's The Substance (2024) and Ninagawa Mika's Helter Skelter (2012) - re/introducing the project, talking about the films as science fiction and their approach to the male/female gaze, bodies
With Scott Midson (a man!) we chat about I'm Your Man (2021) and Making Mr. Right (1987).
This is our second episode in a row with a guest! This week we welcome Indian filmmaker Arati Kadav whose Hindi-language SF Cargo was our more recent #WomenMakeSF film, which is notably the first Indian SF genre film dir
This week’s episode is our first look at the work of the Wachowski sisters - Lily and Lana - who are the most prolific SF creators on the WMSF list with their work expanding across several platforms. We watched Jupiter A
This week we are talking about women in space. How have space movies imagined women’s participation in space exploration and travel? Our cultural imaginaries have not always made space for women in space - despite the ea
This week we are looking at the film Paradise Hills and Level 16 both films are set at dystopian finishing schools where being the perfect girl is the goal. These young women are trapped in the trappings of femininity an
Guest Katie Heffner is a PhD student at the University of Kent, supervised by Prof. Charlotte Sleigh, researching women’s participation in fandom in the early 20th century. She received a Masters in Library and Informati
The sea merges myth and science - both a source of deep fear (and thus myth) and massive rewards (and thus science). In SF the oceans can be a space of imagined futures, a frontier, and a dangerous yet bountiful environm
We take a break from film to gab about our favorite women-created SF TV (which, given how short the list is, is all of them): Emergence, Vagrant Queen, Sense8, Killjoys!, Westworld, and Altered Carbon, with a little Rosw
What is SF? Why "SF" and not "scifi"? In this episode we follow up on the ideas from the opening episode as we debate what really qualifies as science fiction. We also discuss our first three watch party movies: Welcome
In our inaugural episode, we introduce you to us as your hosts, and the project itself: where it came from, what it is, and where we expect it to go. Intro/Outro music: Inspire Glitches (2017) by Yuriy Shishlov (CC-BY-NC
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