You might be wondering how you can give a speech left-handedly…unless you're a southpaw speaking in sign language?

The title A Left-Handed Commencement Address refers to her famous novel "The Left Hand of Darkness," which is one of the first, and best, examples of feminist sci-fi literature. It won the 1969 Nebula Award, and then the Hugo Award in 1970, and it's the book that established Le Guin as one of the era's leading feminist thinkers.

But the title of the speech could also be a metaphor. In it, she talks about the differences between men and women, and how the latter have been relegated to the lesser, passive, darker aspects of life. Somehow second-best. Less common. Kind of like left-handedness versus right-handedness, right? (Like, how many times is there actually a pair of left-handed scissors when you need them? That's discrimination, yo.)