Dr. Marleen S. Barr is known for her pioneering work in feminist science fiction criticism. She has won the Science Fiction Research Association Award for Lifetime Contributions to Science Fiction Scholarship. Barr is the author of Alien to Femininity: Speculative Fiction and Feminist Theory, Lost in Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond, Feminist Fabulation: Space/Postmodern Fiction, and Genre Fission: A New Discourse Practice for Cultural Studies. Barr has edited many critical anthologies and co-edited the science fiction issue of PMLA. She is the author of the novels Oy Pioneer! and Oy Feminist Planets: A Fake Memoir. Her When Trump Changed: The Feminist Science Fiction Justice League Quashes the Orange Outrage Pussy Grabber is the first single authored Trump short story collection.

On The Artsy Raven she shares why she writes about Trump so much, how she became a feminist science fiction scholar and why Barbie is so important!

At time 19:00 she reads from her latest work, This Former President: Science Fiction as Retrospective Retrorocket Jettisons Trumpism.

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