"James Tiptree, Jr" was the pen name of award-winning author Alice Sheldon, who used the masculine pseudonym to evade gender stereotypes in readers' minds. |
(James Tiptree, Jr was the pen name of award-winning author Alice Sheldon, who used the masculine pseudonym to evade gender stereotypes in readers' minds.) |
Or in the words of co-founder Karen Joy Fowler in her essay "On James Tiptree, Alice Sheldon and bake sales": "to remind the field of its own importance in the continual struggle to re-imagine more liveable sexual roles for ourselves."
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