{"630432":{"#nid":"630432","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"A \u2018Star Wars\u2019 actor sparked a conversation about gender fluidity. Women have been using sci-fi to explore gender and sexuality for centuries.","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELisa Yaszek\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication,\u0026nbsp;was featured in \u003Cstrong\u003EThe Lily\u003C\/strong\u003E, the world\u0026#39;s oldest feminist magazine, in an article about gender fluidity in science fiction, \u0026quot;A \u0026lsquo;Star Wars\u0026rsquo; actor sparked a conversation about gender fluidity. Women have been using sci-fi to explore gender and sexuality for centuries.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor women, in particular, science fiction has long been a space to stretch the bounds of traditional gender roles and imagine a more gender-equal future.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/yaszek\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ELisa Yaszek\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor of science fiction studies at Georgia Tech, describes the feminist appeal of science fiction like this: \u0026ldquo;We can imagine spaces that radically break from our own world and from what we know or at least believe to be scientifically or socially true about sex and gender.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.thelily.com\/a-star-wars-actor-came-out-as-gender-fluid-women-have-been-using-sci-fi-to-explore-gender-and-sexuality-for-centuries\/\u0022\u003ERead the full article.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2020-01-02 18:28:09","changed_gmt":"2020-01-02 19:55:29","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"nicholas platt","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.thelily.com\/a-star-wars-actor-came-out-as-gender-fluid-women-have-been-using-sci-fi-to-explore-gender-and-sexuality-for-centuries\/","dateline":{"date":"2019-12-08T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-12-08T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"628451":{"id":"628451","type":"image","title":"Lisa Yaszek","body":null,"created":"1572548549","gmt_created":"2019-10-31 19:02:29","changed":"1572552353","gmt_changed":"2019-10-31 20:05:53","alt":"","file":{"fid":"239346","name":"Lisa Yaszek 740Xx scale.small_.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Lisa%20Yaszek%20740Xx%20scale.small__0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Lisa%20Yaszek%20740Xx%20scale.small__0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":91906,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Lisa%20Yaszek%20740Xx%20scale.small__0.jpg?itok=aSxwf4ln"}}},"media_ids":["628451"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}