The idea of agency had been building in my mind-and story selections-for a while. There has been one key addition to my criteria, though, something that all the stories must be rather than must not be. Over time, that bar has stayed pretty much the same, and I’ve learned to steer clear of stories with racist or transphobic themes and dog whistles as well. Which seems like a pretty easy and obvious bar, but I still get plenty of submissions for every volume that don’t meet it. That includes stories that glorify gendered or sexual violence, tedious stereotypes like strong men saving wilting women or strong women portrayed as militantly anti-man, casual slurs, or anything told un-self-reflexively through the male gaze. When I first started editing this series, I had one simple rule-it would not include stories that were overtly sexist. More amusing is when people don’t ask, but assume-my favorite example was someone who mused, So you publish stories about planets with no men? No, I get it-all the men are enslaved! More frequent is the assumption that all the stories must by written by women in order to be feminist, or that the stories need to be overtly about fighting sexism. What makes the Bikes in Space books feminist? I get asked this question frequently, especially when our calls for submissions are open. With these early cosmonauts in mind, here is the eight volume of the Bikes in Space series of feminist science fiction (with a good deal of fantasy in the mix).
She remains the only woman to have been on a solo mission in space. After her rush into orbit, it was almost 20 years before another woman went to space. Tereshkova has fared much better, going on to become an engineer and career politician as well as an international celebrity.
She didn’t long survive her return to Earth to add further indignity, she has often been mistakenly commemorated on postage stamps as Felix. She trained much as human astronauts do, with centrifugal force simulating the gravity of re-entry, practice being confined in a small space, and the simulated noise of rockets.
That same year, a French catstronaut named Félicette became the first cat to go to space, and to this day is the only feline to have survived spaceflight. in sending a woman to space and scoured the country’s parachutist clubs for candidates. A Russian textile worker, she was selected for the space program because of her love of amateur skydiving the Soviets were determined to beat the U.S. In 1963, Valentina Tereshkova became the first human woman to travel to space.
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