I got to be a part of this team, which included Leah, Jenna and Alexis. We started by geeking out, and brainstorming all of our favorite radical science fiction materials and creators. Here’s the list of works/creators, followed by the full collective notes from the session (taken on a collective notepad!) Creators: writer Iain Banks, (The Culture Series) writer Octavia Butler writer Samuel R Delaney (esp Dhalgren) writer Nalo Hopkinson (Midnight Robbers) writer Daniel Heath Justice writer Madeleine L’Engle (esp Wrinkle in Time series) writer Ursula Le Guin (esp Four Ways to Forgiveness, The Dispossessed, The Left Hand of Darkness, story The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas) writer China Mieville (esp Un Lun Dun) singer Janelle Monae (all albums) writer Joanna Russ writer James Tiptree Jr’s short stories pieces: Doc & Fluff, Pat Califia The Stories of Your Lives and Others, Ted Chang Black Wine, Candas Jane Dorsey Who Fears Death, Nnedi Okorafor Woman on the Edge of Time, Marge Piercy Fuzzy Nation, by writer John Scalzi Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot A Door Into Ocean, Joan Slonczewski Truth or Dare, Starhawk Anarchist Farm Battlestar Galactica Firefly (tv series) Serendipity (the movie) Avatar: The Last Airbender — session notes: – Presenter Intros – Why Sci-Fi Reader Workshop? – Octavia Butler Strategic Reader – Presenting three science fiction texts with transformative justice threads. – Fishbowl on transformative justice in science fiction