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Sable Aradia
Posted 2017-02-19 10:16 AM (#15323 - in reply to #14880)
Subject: Re: 2017 LGBTQ Speculative Fiction Reading Challenge		Quote Reply



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In other news, finished Star Songs of an Old Primate. Tiptree plays some extremely intriguing games with the idea of gender, especially when one considers most of the stories were written in the 70s. Outstanding! Cannot recommend it enough.

On that subject, do we consider James Tiptree Jr. to be an LGBTQ author? Alice Sheldon maintained a whole masculine identity for Tiptree, even in correspondence, but she was happily married by all accounts to a man and of course standards were different back then. Do you think we can describe her as gender non-conforming, or is that a stretch based on what we know?

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