Cyanea capillata in the sky 2 by Alexander Semenov
Hurray, Readercon! Con of my heart! Here’s my schedule.
And now, linkspam!
- On Facebook, Hating CNN
- Long Live The Queen: A Game of Strategy, Intrigue, and Horrible, Adorable Death
- I Am a Handweaver
- Needlework (and here, with comments)
- Handwriting: yours, but better.
- The Comment Section For Every Article About Bikini Waxing Ever
- Personal rehabilitation and the community
- What To Expect When A Blog Post Goes Viral The numbers here haven’t been nearly as dramatic but the feelings I’ve been having are similar.
- A new exposé of Mother Teresa shows that she—and the Vatican—were even worse than we thought
- Medical romances: imperialism, nationalism, race and gender
- Female inmates sterilized in California prisons without approval
- Rescue Me? Falling Free, by Lois McMaster Bujold
- Beauty is an Impediment: Julia Pastrana and the Modern-Day Politics of Being Seen
- Maybe This Time
- DragonCon Finally Separates From Founder Ed Kramer
- Joan Parker, 80; writer and philanthropist was muse to her late husband, ‘Spenser’ novelist Robert B. Parker
- Monopoly acheived: An invincible Amazon begins raising prices and There are exactly zero defensible reasons for authors to link to Amazon I am totally guilty of choosing to link to Amazon–I am definitely going to be investigating the IndieBound affiliate program; one of the reasons I link to Amazon is that they make is so easy.
- La, la, la, I can’t hear you
- Ernest Hemingway reading The New York Times in bed, naked Does what it says.
- Nerds of a Feather interviews Aliette de Bodard
- It’s Heroine Week at Romance Around the Corner! So much awesome!
- “If, if, if.”
- A Lovely Portrait of a Larger Lady
- The Scrotum is Nuts
- “Dirty Dancing” Is A Subversive Masterpiece Welp. I guess I don’t need to write that essay that’s been percolating in the back of my head for the last year as Lesley Kinzel says everything I’d want to and better than I would have said it anyhow. It was a staple of my teenaged sleepovers, too.
- Too Wonky for Primetime
- Disability in Kidlit
And here’s some more commentary on the recent unpleasantness in science fiction.
- Rose Lemberg: Weasels, monkeys, fish, oh my and an account of being harassed at Wiscon in 2012.
- Seanan McGuire: Accidents are harder than you think: harassment and all of us.
- Jaymee Goh: Con Moments: “What Are Your Credentials?”
- Victor Raymond: Harassment at SF Conventions
- Chris Gerwal: A Healthy Dose of Professionalism
- Jim C. Hines: Reporting Sexual Harassment in SF/F, 2013 Edition
- Paul Mcauley: The Other Half Of The Sky
- Jeff Eaton: But Being a Dick is Subjective