Joanna Russ

Joanna Russ (February 22, 1937 – April 29, 2011) was an American author and feminist who wrote several Science Fiction and Fantasy novels as well as short fiction and feminist literary criticism. Russ also was active in fandom, writing both Star Trek: TOS fanfiction and essays, as well as a Star Trek: DS9 story, the latter in 1997. 
Her first science fiction publish is "Nor Custom Stale" in September 1959 for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, a journal to which she contributed between 1967 and 1980.
Read more about Joanna Russ at Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.
Russ' pseud, "Janet Alyx," is an homage to two of her characters: "Janet" is the main character in "When It Changed" (1972) and "Alyx" is a character in the 1976 collection of feminist science fiction stories called "The Adventures of Alyx."
A fan wrote in 1994: 
In 2014, another fan wrote: 
==Russ' Involvement in Star Trek Fandom==
Russ also wrote essays (using her legal name) for Star Trek: TOS zines, as well as fan fiction (using two pseuds).
In March 1984, Russ gave a one-person panel at Norwescon. The subject was K/S. See 1984 Panel at Norwescon.
In 1985, Russ published an essay in the fanzine Nome entitled "Another Addict Raves About K/S" and later published a modified version of the essay as "Pornography by Women for Women, With Love" in her essay collection Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans and Perverts: Feminist Essays.
In 1994, Russ wrote:
In a 2011 interview See Interview: Joanna Russ (2011) posted in the Journal of Popular Romance Studies a month before Russ' death, she offered her memories of slash fan fiction:
As for the perennial question of why do women write slash: 
 
===Fanfiction by Russ===
Russ used two different spellings of the same name: "Janet Alex" and "Janet Alyx."
* Break Thou My Sanctuary (as Janet Alex, 1984, Out of Bounds - Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves", reprinted in 1985 in Daring Attempt" #2)
* Domestic Affections (as Janet Alex, 1984, Out of Bounds - Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves")
* Invasion (as Janet Alyx, 1984, T'hy'la #4)
* The Matchmaker (as Janet Alyx, 1985, T'hy'la #5) 
* Unclassified Affections (as Janet Alex, 1997, The Plain and Simple Zine #10)
The original manuscripts for these stories are at University of Oregon Libraries.
==Letterwar Between Joanna Russ and Marion Zimmer Bradley==
In 1975 and 1976, there was much discussion in The Witch and the Chameleon regarding Marion Zimmer Bradley's book Darkover Landfall, Vonda N. McIntyre's review of that book, and Russ' responses, one of them in the form of her book, We Who Are About To...
* Letterwar Between Joanna Russ and Marion Zimmer Bradley
==1984 Panel at Norwescon==
In March 1984, Russ gave a one-person panel at Norwescon. The subject was K/S, and it was the basis for Another Addict Raves About K/S and Pornography by Women, for Women, With Love, published a year later.
From a fan who was at this panel: 
==Meta Essays, Interviews, and Further Reading==
* Joanna Russ: A 1968 Speech (about acafandom, toxic masculinity, science fiction) (1968)
* The real science fiction: Part 1 – Killers circling the stage: Why Joanna Russ’s fiction still puzzles me by Bruce Gillespie at SF Commentary #86 (February 2014)
* An Open Letter to Joanna Russ about their work How to Suppress Women's Writing (Winter 1986/87)
*Teach Me Tonight: Guest Post: K. A. Laity on Joanna Russ on Slash Fiction (January 2010)
* My Hair Stood on End!: Talking with Joanna Russ about Slash, Community, and Female Sexuality (March 31, 2011)
==In Memory==
==References==
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