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WELCOME TO THE FUTURE: A New App Scans Your Face to Verify You Are a “Girl”

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A new app designed exclusively for women is raising eyebrows for requiring users to send in pictures for their bio-metric gender verification software to get access. The app, called “giggle,” explains that the gender verification process “ensures that those within the platform are verified as girls.” Users are required to send in a “3D selfie” that examines their bone structure, a process that “ensures that those within the platform are verified as girls.” “It’s Bio-Science, not pseudo-science like phrenology,” the app claims. At the end of this explanation in the app’s FAQ, a message about trans women casually states “Unfortunately … Read more

Autostraddle Celebrates the Women of Discovery

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When Star Trek: Discovery launched on CBS All Access in 2017, response was decidedly mixed: it led to a record subscription day for the brand-new streaming network, but many die-hard Trekkies were anti-Discovery from the jump, one taking the time to produce a 47-video series on the inconsistencies presented within Discovery, which takes place earlier on the Prime Timeline than Enterprise, The Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager. The Klingons look different! Spock never said he had a sister! The technology is WAY beyond what makes sense for the time! Spores? What? But while there was … Read more

CALL: Ladies of Horror Fiction Seeks Guest Posts

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Ladies of Horror Fiction is taking guest posts from any horror author that identifies as female. They are currently scheduling guest post for 2019 and want to hear from QSF authors!! Please email ladiesofhorrorfiction@gmail.com with your post ideas!! For this month, as it is the anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein, they are looking for guest posts on Sci-fi Horror. Toni Miller (at the email above) is more then happy to answer any questions that members may have.

ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: Rescue, by Marie Brown

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QSFer Marie Brown has a new 99 cent FF fantasy book out: A cry in the woods leads Ranger Kell Ardantin to the rescue of a lovely young lady, escaping a horrible fate in her homeland to start life anew. Get It On Amazon Giveaway Marie is giving away a copy of her book “Desert Rose” with this post – comment below for a chance to win. Excerpt Cinnamon heard the sound first, as usual. She flung her head up and snorted, ears pricked. “What is it, girl?” Kell patted the mare’s neck and strained her own hearing. Nothing, of … Read more

SCIENCE: Why Did These Medieval European Women Have Alien-Like Skulls?

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The discovery of mysterious, 1,500-year-old egg-shaped skulls in Bavarian graves has stumped scientists for more than half a century, but now some genetic sleuthing has helped them crack the case: The pointy skulls likely belonged to immigrant brides who traveled to Bavaria from afar to get married, a new study explains. The finding indicates that these long-headed brides, who lived in the sixth century A.D., likely traveled great distances from southeastern Europe — an area encompassing the region around modern-day Romania, Bulgaria and Serbia — to what is now the southern part of modern Germany. The long trek was certainly arduous, … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Into the Mystic Volume 2 Anthology

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QSFer CC Bridges has a story in a new queer women Fantasy anthology book: Green Love Elise, a serious-minded environmentalist, hikes into the forbidding forest of Blackwood to find the clonal colony of aspen said to exist at its centre. Her journey is as much a struggle to break free of the overprotectiveness of her older sister and make peace with the loss of their parents as it is a mission to save the woods from the threat of deforestation. Once arrived at the aspen grove, she seems to have stumbled across more than she bargained for. Is someone, or … Read more

SPACE: NASA Forgets About Lesbians

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NASA apparently floated sending an all-female crew to Mars – and people have pointed out the slight sapphic issue with that plan. Helen Sharman, the first British astronaut to go to space, made the revelation during at an event during the New Scientist Live festival in London. Sharman, who was part of private British space programme Project Juno, said the report highlighted concerns about male and female astronauts having sex during the 18-month trip to Mars. Because of this, NASA allegedly said that all-female crews would be best because women work better as a team. NASA proposed this idea because women were … Read more

Male Artist Becomes the Women of Game of Thrones

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Paolo Ballesteros is Filipino makeup artist, TV host and “impersonator.” What he truly is though, is amazing. Ballestros’ Instagram is full of photos of the artist transforming himself into strong female characters. Check out his take on the women from Game Of Thrones below with a bonus photo of Ballesteros as Wonder Woman too. (Because, c’mon, if anyone could take on Daenerys and win, it’s gonna be Diana.) By Bil Browning – Full Story at LGBTQ Nation

Womb Transplants for Trans Women?

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An NHS doctor has suggested that transgender women in the UK may be a decade away from accessing womb transplants. As part of ongoing research into the procedure, at least three cis-women could be given wombs through a new charity-funded program launching this year. A similar womb transplant procedure could make it possible for transgender women to get pregnant and have babies. Uterine transplants have already been successful in Sweden. At least five children have been born to womb-less women using a procedure similar to the ones NHS doctors are working towards. By Ashley Vega – Full Story at Gay … Read more

Queer Female Characters We Lost in 2016

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Lesbians and bisexual women live dangerous lives – especially if they’re on TV. Producers and writers are famously keen to kill off lesbian characters, meaning their romances rarely meet a happy end. So much so it’s turned into an actual, recurring TV trope. This year has been no exception and, in true 2016 style, has brought us some of the most dramatic, but also often useless, deaths of our favorite lesbian characters. Sadly, there are too many to count, but here are 28 (fictional) women we lost this year: 1 Poussey Washington – Orange is the New Black Cause of … Read more