I learned about WisCon , the feminist science fiction convention, while writing a paper on feminist literary utopias for my MFA in creative writing . I knew, one day, I would have to go. WisCon 35 was my year. I was dubious though, "Wisconsin?" It seemed far to go from Seattle. And, "Utopia?" Yes, quite a bit actually, as it turned out. But I took a long route to WisCon. In high school I was reading Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein and Ray Bradbury. Asimov, especially, amazed me. I had a job shelving books at the Yakima Public Library and, with godlike omnipresence, Asimov had books in every section — science fiction, non-fiction, mystery, poetry! My mother modeled some feminist ideals and my dad gave me Clarissa Pinkola Estes' Women Who Run With the Wolves , but my brother provided my first formal introduction to feminism. He brought me Ms. Magazine , "Have you read this?" Then, sometime in college, perhaps after my in Women in Politics cla...
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