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Last Saturday 9 May 2026, from Wikisphere and in coordination with Medialab Slaughterhouse (@medialabmatadero) in Madrid, we dedicate a day to To make visible in Wikipedia the trajectories of women linked to science fiction, as writers, creators, designers and thinkers who have worked technological imaginaries from artistic practice and critical thinking. 

During the editatone, participants created, improved and translated articles on Spanish Wikipedia on women and feminist science fiction referents, collectively contributing to reducing the gender gap in free knowledge and building a more diverse and fairer representation of contemporary culture and creation. 

The activity was integrated into the programming of Medialab Matadero, inspired by LAB 4 Futures Rare, a program focused on exploring how technological imaginaries and stories about the future transform our society and our way of understanding the truth in digital environments.


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On this occasion, we have the online participation of Cristina Jurado (@jurado_cristina) bilingual science fiction writer, as well as editor and translator specializing in speculative fiction. His intervention allowed us to approach the importance of science fiction as a space for cultural creation, critical thinking and construction of possible futures from diverse and feminist perspectives.

During the session she made a tour of the genealogy of fundamental women within science fiction, selecting 12 women, including Mary Shelley, Ursula K. Le Guin, Octavia Butler, Joana Russ, Donna Haraway, and other writers, editors and scholars who have contributed to the genre. The presentation covered their literary, philosophical and academic contributions, highlighting how these women have questioned gender roles, explored feminist themes and diversified the narrative of science fiction. He also put in value the need to build cultural memory and accessible references in open digital spaces such as Wikipedia, connecting directly with the objective of the publisher to expand the presence and visibility of women linked to this literary genre.

In addition, we give the participants copies of Daughters of the Future, an anthology edited by Cristina Jurado and Lola Robles in 2022, which brings together essays by science fiction authors in Spanish.


> Results

  • Number of PARTICIPANTS: 18
  • Number of PUBLISHED ARTICLES: 25

>> Articles created: 1

  1. Daughters of the future (Anthology of Cristina Jurado y Lola Robles 2022)

>> Articles translated to Spanish: 24

>>> Biographies

  1. Florence Carpenter Dieudonné (1850-1927)
  2. Leslie F. Stone (1905-1991)
  3. Lisa Tuttle (1952)
  4. Pat Murphy (1955)
  5. Johanna Sinisalo (1958)
  6. Nicoletta Vallorani (1959)
  7. Motoko Arai (1960)
  8. Nina Allan (1966)
  9. Hiromi Goto (1966)
  10. Christina Dalcher (twentieth century)
  11. Ekaterina Sedia (1970)
  12. Emma Newman (1976)
  13. Ai Jiang (1977)
  14. Emily St. John Mandel (1979)
  15. Catherynne M. Valente (1979)
  16. Premee Mohamed (1981)
  17. Catherine Webb (1986)

>>> Work

  1. The Death of Chaos (novel of  Joanna Russ 1970)
  2. The eye of the heron (novel of  Ursula K. Le Guin 1978)
  3. The shore of women (novel of Pamela Sargent 1986)
  4. Le Goût de l’immortalité (2005 novel by Catherine Dufour)
  5. The House of Discarded Dreams (novel of Ekaterina Sedia 2010)

>>> Events and awards

  1. Wiscon (Annual American science fiction and fantasy convention with feminist focus)
  2. Other award (Annual American Literary Prize for Science Fiction or Fantasy Works Related to the Genre)

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