Editing Joanna Russ (section)

==Personal life==
Around the time of the publication of ''The Female Man'' in 1975,<ref>{{Cite web|date=2011-04-29|title=In Memoriam: Joanna Russ (1937-2011)|url=https://www.sfwa.org/2011/04/29/in-memoriam-joanna-russ-1937-2011/|access-date=2021-12-09|website=SFWA|language=en-US}}</ref> Russ came out as a lesbian.{{sfnp|Griffin|2002|p=172}} However, Russ remained protective of her personal life,<ref name=":1" /> and as late as a December 1981 interview with Charles Platt, she was still evasive on the subject for the first third of the interview.{{sfnp|Platt|1983|p=200}}

===Health===
In her later life she published little, largely because she had [[chronic pain]] and [[myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome]] (ME/CFS).<ref name="cfs">{{cite web |date=1995-06-16 |title=Reviews: Joanna Russ |url=http://feministsf.org/reviews/russ.j.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927185648/http://feministsf.org/reviews/russ.j.html |archive-date=September 27, 2007 |access-date=September 25, 2006 |work=Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy & Utopia}}</ref>

On April 27, 2011, it was reported that Russ had been admitted to a [[hospice]] after suffering a series of strokes. [[Samuel R. Delany]] was quoted as saying that Russ was "slipping away" and had long had a "[[do not resuscitate]]" order on file.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Silver |first=Steven H. |date=2011-04-27 |title=Joanna Russ in Hospice |url=http://www.sfsite.com/news/2011/04/27/joanna-russ-in-hospice/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430150457/http://www.sfsite.com/news/2011/04/27/joanna-russ-in-hospice/ |archive-date=2011-04-30 |access-date= |website=[[SF Site]]}}</ref> She died early in the morning on April 29, 2011.<ref name=locus/><ref name="nytimesobit">{{Cite news|last=Fox|first=Margalit|title=Joanna Russ, Who Drew Women to Sci-Fi, Dies at 74|newspaper=The New York Times|date=May 7, 2011|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/arts/joanna-russ-74-dies-wrote-science-fiction.html?_r=1|access-date=May 23, 2011}}</ref>