(Re)Making Space for Women

(Re)Making Space for Women: A guide to f/f slash in Blake's 7 fanzines is an essay by Nova published in Sleer as Folk (2002), the first all-femslash Blake's 7 zine. It discusses femslash published in printzines between the first f/f story of 1985 and 2001, based on bibliographic data compiled by Sarah Thompson. This bibliographic data was presented at the end of the essay under the title "F/f Bibliography in Chronological Order (with more thanks to Sarah Thompson)".
==Some Findings==
Author's conclusions:
*Blake's 7 femslash is rare compared with m/m slash, with a total of 30 stories in 22 zines
*The first f/f story was 'Changing' by Jane Carnall, published in 1985 This story is in "touched" #4 , only two years after the first m/m story; there has been at least one f/f story in most subsequent years
*Jenna Stannis is the main femslashed character
*The f/f element is central in 12, an important subplot in 5 (usually to contextualise or comment on the main narrative), and peripheral in 13/30 stories
*Only 12/30 stories contain any description of f/f sex, and in 3 of these it is limited to a paragraph or less; techniques described include finger fucking (9), breast stimulation (7), cunnilingus (5), frottage (3) & dildos (2)
*Most stories don't establish specific sexual orientations for the femslashed characters and only a couple of stories discuss homophobia or gay politics; however, there are also only a couple of explicitly homophobic or heterocentric stories 
*Most Blake's 7 f/f stories approach relationships between female characters in a casual rather than romantic manner
Other conclusions that can be drawn from the essay:
*Authors who have written more than one f/f story include Jane Carnall, Bryn Lantry, Jamie Melody R., Misha, Nova & Ika
*Zines that have published more than one f/f story include "touched", The Unique Touch, The Other Side, Southern Comfort, No Holds Barred, Bend Me, Shape Me and TTBA
*Jenna/Cally is the most common pairing, followed by Dayna/Soolin; the only other pairings with multiple stories are Jenna/ofc & Jenna/Servalan
*Stories with f/f pairings in Blake's 7 fandom often also feature m/f and m/m pairings
==The Stories Discussed==
In the order of being mentioned in the essay:
'A Touch of Love' by Geoff Tilley in The Other Side #4 | 'Echoes of Love' by J.R. and it's sequel 'Coming Out of the Dark' by the same author (both in Southern Comfort #8.5) | 'Silent Night Holy (?) Night' by Jane Carnall in "touched" #6 | 'Kindred Souls' by Aislinn in Southern Lights Special #3.5 and "touched" #8 | 'May King' by Susan Cutter | 'Matchmaker' by Nova in Bend Me, Shape Me | 'Fifteenth of Boozious' by Predatrix in Erogenous Zine | 'Everybody Gets In in the End' by Kerrvert in Southern Comfort #5.5 | 'You're Kidding, Right?' by Jane Carnall in Southern Comfort #6.5 | 'The Great Orac' by Leah S. in Southern Comfort #8.5 | 'Blake's Seven Go Camping' by Linda Norman in Tales from Space City #1 | 'Obituaries: Roj Blake' by Ika in TTBA, 'Sisyphus' by Bryn Lantry in The Other Side #3 | 'Sisters of the Moon' by Madelyn Darring in Vila, Please! | 'If There Were Dreams to Sell, What Would You Buy?' by Misha in Southern Lights #11.5 | 'Metaphorically Speaking' by Nova in Bend Me, Shape Me | 'Hombres, Sailors, Comrades' by Ika in TTBA | 'Then and Now' by Coral Court in Southern Comfort #5.5 | 'Command Performance' by M.J. Dolan in Southern Comfort #6.5 | 'Poison Ring' by Susan Douglass in No Holds Barred #12 | 'Asphodel' by Misha in Deadlier Than the Male | Window Shopping by Helen Patrick in Fire and Ice #6 | 'Changing' by Jane Carnall in "touched" #4 | 'Revenge for What?' by Jane Carnall in Southern Lights #4.5 | 'A Different Path' by Bryn Lantry in The Unique Touch #2 | 'Customs' by Barbara T in The Unique Touch #2 | 'A Friendly Drink' by J.D. Reese in Southern Comfort #5.5 | 'Tangents' by Bryn Lantry in The Other Side #8 | 'To Shoot the Moon' by Jane Mailander in No Holds Barred #3
See F/f Bibliography in Chronological Order for more information about pairings, the year of publication and the country of publication of each story.
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