Summary: Our special 2014 Galactic Suburbia Award episode! Listen to find out our winner and shortlist for our award to honour activism and/or communication that advances the feminist conversation in the field of speculative fiction.<br> <br> CULTURE CONSUMED:<br> <br> Alisa: Haven S5, <a href="http://www.xojane.com/entertainment/reading-challenge-stop-reading-white-straight-cis-male-authors-for-one-year">Tempest's Reading Challenge</a><br> <br> Alex: Tehanu, Tales of Earthsea, and The Other Wind, Ursula le Guin; Jupiter Ascending; Waistcoats and Weaponry, Gail Carriger. <br> <br> Tansy: <a href="http://tansyrr.com/tansywp/russian-musketeers-own-my-soul-1979/">D’Artanyan i tri Mushketyora</a> (1979); New Avengers: Breakout prose novel by Alisa Kwitney; New Avengers: Breakout, by Brian Michael Bendis; <a href="http://tansyrr.com/tansywp/issue-1-curb-stomp-2015/">Curb Stomp #1</a> - Ryan Ferrier (writer), Devaki Neogi (artist); Princess Leia #1 - Mark Waid (writer) Terry & Rachel Dodson (artists).<br> <br> NEXT TIME: tune in for our Ursula Le Guin essay spoilerific. We will be covering: "The Space Crone” & “Is Gender Necessary? (Redux)” (both in Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, and Places) and “Science Fiction and Mrs Brown”(in The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction).<br> <br> <br> Please send feedback to us at galacticsuburbia@gmail.com, follow us on Twitter at @galacticsuburbs, check out Galactic Suburbia Podcast on Facebook, support us at <a href="http://www.patreon.com/galacticsuburbia">Patreon</a> and don't forget to leave a review on iTunes if you love us!<br>
