ABSTRACT
Feminist science fiction is a category most frequently associated with literature, film, and television. This chapter challenges these associations, theorising SF art as a space for queer/trans/feminist resistance. Specifically, SF artworks by Sophia Al-Maria, Sin Wai Kin, Tai Shani, and Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley are read as feminist theory—a method drawn from speculative and repro-utopian feminisms—which seeks to locate theoretical knowledge both within and beyond academic writing. Subsequently feminist SF artworks are contextualised within wider feminist and/or science fiction traditions, communities, and discourses. Feminist SF art is framed then not as a genre populated by individual auteurs, but as a community of artists engaged in coauthorship. This chapter focusses specifically on artists working with collaborative worldbuilding, a range of artistic strategies which further embed coauthorship and recursivity into SF art production.
