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Sunday Linkfest!
Happy New Gregorian Year, folks! My new year's weekend was uneventful and unproductive, but I am determined to get work done today, after this linkfest!
First, to begin with, here are some signal boosts:
Joyce Chng's web-based Oysters, Pearls and Magic is now finished and looking for a print publisher! Give it a read and let her know what you think!
The Carl Brandon Society's $2k Challenge Grant from SF3 is still on! SF3 will match every donation given to the CBS until the end of January up until $2000, so please spare a dollar or two if you can! And tell your friends!
A FOOD carnival? Yes! POTLUCK, a new multicultural and intersectional blog carnival surrounding food is having its first feast! The theme is holidays, hosted by the lovely glass_icarus.
Couple of orgs worth keeping on your radar: The International Network of Women with Disabilities, and The National Black Justice Coalition, dedicated to empowering Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people.
I was pretty spare in my reading throughout this week, so, some gender and sexuality stuff:
Ms Magazine has some feminist fairy tales to recommend. Really for last minute Christmas gifts, but I'd venture they're good for birthdays too, or any other occasion which calls for gift-giving, like, randomly saying, "I love you" to the little child of your choice.
Some good takedowns of myths regarding special rights for queers and MRA arguments. Handy for the future!
On Wrestling Buddies and Unicorns -- a story I think a lot of us could relate to.
One young feminist is demanding that some of the feminist higher ups reign in naomi (rape apologist) wolfe... A fierce blog, a fierce blogger.
You know that Rosie the Riveter "We Can Do It!" poster? The model, Geraldine Doyle, recently died, age 86.
Coupla non-English #talkaboutit links: One young woman's general musings on the subject. One man's more personal musings.
Why Tami Ditched Lady Mags.
I need a new category for racialized stuff, but here's a Russian photo essay Rose Lemberg (excellent editor of Stone Telling) shared with me last week about the ethnic tensions in Moscow.
Couple of cool things from Ars Marginal: Why Storm Needs Her Own Spin Off and Beyond Tolkien: Fantasy for Grown-ups. (Read the fine print.)
Hyphen Magazine delivers its list of 10 Notable Asian American Books of 2010.
This isn't exactly new, but it's worth keeping in mind the trap that white allies can fall into within a white-privileged society, e.g. Tim Wise. (I've read somewhere that Wise is aware of this problem and does try to bring it up, but it rather feeds into the same problem.)
Further abroad, Thousands of Indian farmers are getting into debt over buying GM seeds. This is a Daily Mail.co.uk link, so watch for problematic framing here and there.
Muslimah Media Watch has a look at Saad Haroon's "Pretty Woman" parody, "Burqa Woman".
An African anthropologist studies American anthropology as a subject of his field research.
2011 New Year's Day brought WOE and WHOA: Feminists With Disabilities/Forward says goodbye, after fifteen months of consistent, almost non-stop blogging! We'll miss FWD, but the bloggers are still around, and still awesome!
Some more intersectional, non-categorizable thinky thoughts:
What does deregulated resistance look like? How useful are 501c organizations? What effects are there in working within an already-broken system?
Some reflections on Paolo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed. A great exposition on Freire's thoughts, and gets me even more intrigued to read the book.
To receive therapy, inmates are caged. Hrm. Rather defeats the purpose of healing them...
Someone you know is a criminal, and their rights matter.
An interview with Mark Fisher on Capitalist Realism.
Some writing and SFF stuff!
A literary quarterly to watch: the Cascadia Subduction Zone, dedicated to "bring reviews, criticism, interviews, intelligent essays, and flashes of creative artwork (visual and written) to a readership hungry for discussion of work by not only men but also women."
The growing ebook industry and authors' new ability to self-publish is breaking down the role of publishing houses as traditional gatekeepers.
A really awesome query that Query Shark got. It's not the kind of book I would read, but dayum, that marketing.
Jess Nevins illustrates for us how Mary Poppins is a horror film.
An interview with Junot Diaz at Boston Review. I've never read the Oscar Wao book, but was always intrigued by it. Some great stuff on privilege, youth, and specificity there.
OK, so, after all that, and you just want something less serious and stuff to kill time with:
Awesome sets of photographs, by two photographers who took some WWII-era photos, found their exact modern-day locations, and combined the two together: Amsterdam and various other places in Germany.
How to format Word docs for the Kindle.
Oh, mathy pedantry, sometimes you ARE useful.
Are cyber friendships REAL friendships? Of course they are.
A good graph for deciding whether you want to engage in certain kinds of debates. I don't like the bit about requiring hard evidence, but for most part it works.
Way too much effort put into make snacks look like gourmet food.
And FINALLY, just HAD to share this, an EPICALLY META YULETIDE FIC! I could barely make it through halfway, my mind was Just. That. Blown.
Have a good first full-length week of the new Gregorian year ahead!
First, to begin with, here are some signal boosts:
Joyce Chng's web-based Oysters, Pearls and Magic is now finished and looking for a print publisher! Give it a read and let her know what you think!
The Carl Brandon Society's $2k Challenge Grant from SF3 is still on! SF3 will match every donation given to the CBS until the end of January up until $2000, so please spare a dollar or two if you can! And tell your friends!
A FOOD carnival? Yes! POTLUCK, a new multicultural and intersectional blog carnival surrounding food is having its first feast! The theme is holidays, hosted by the lovely glass_icarus.
Couple of orgs worth keeping on your radar: The International Network of Women with Disabilities, and The National Black Justice Coalition, dedicated to empowering Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people.
I was pretty spare in my reading throughout this week, so, some gender and sexuality stuff:
Ms Magazine has some feminist fairy tales to recommend. Really for last minute Christmas gifts, but I'd venture they're good for birthdays too, or any other occasion which calls for gift-giving, like, randomly saying, "I love you" to the little child of your choice.
Some good takedowns of myths regarding special rights for queers and MRA arguments. Handy for the future!
On Wrestling Buddies and Unicorns -- a story I think a lot of us could relate to.
One young feminist is demanding that some of the feminist higher ups reign in naomi (rape apologist) wolfe... A fierce blog, a fierce blogger.
You know that Rosie the Riveter "We Can Do It!" poster? The model, Geraldine Doyle, recently died, age 86.
Coupla non-English #talkaboutit links: One young woman's general musings on the subject. One man's more personal musings.
Why Tami Ditched Lady Mags.
I need a new category for racialized stuff, but here's a Russian photo essay Rose Lemberg (excellent editor of Stone Telling) shared with me last week about the ethnic tensions in Moscow.
Couple of cool things from Ars Marginal: Why Storm Needs Her Own Spin Off and Beyond Tolkien: Fantasy for Grown-ups. (Read the fine print.)
Hyphen Magazine delivers its list of 10 Notable Asian American Books of 2010.
This isn't exactly new, but it's worth keeping in mind the trap that white allies can fall into within a white-privileged society, e.g. Tim Wise. (I've read somewhere that Wise is aware of this problem and does try to bring it up, but it rather feeds into the same problem.)
Further abroad, Thousands of Indian farmers are getting into debt over buying GM seeds. This is a Daily Mail.co.uk link, so watch for problematic framing here and there.
Muslimah Media Watch has a look at Saad Haroon's "Pretty Woman" parody, "Burqa Woman".
An African anthropologist studies American anthropology as a subject of his field research.
2011 New Year's Day brought WOE and WHOA: Feminists With Disabilities/Forward says goodbye, after fifteen months of consistent, almost non-stop blogging! We'll miss FWD, but the bloggers are still around, and still awesome!
Some more intersectional, non-categorizable thinky thoughts:
What does deregulated resistance look like? How useful are 501c organizations? What effects are there in working within an already-broken system?
Some reflections on Paolo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed. A great exposition on Freire's thoughts, and gets me even more intrigued to read the book.
To receive therapy, inmates are caged. Hrm. Rather defeats the purpose of healing them...
Someone you know is a criminal, and their rights matter.
An interview with Mark Fisher on Capitalist Realism.
Some writing and SFF stuff!
A literary quarterly to watch: the Cascadia Subduction Zone, dedicated to "bring reviews, criticism, interviews, intelligent essays, and flashes of creative artwork (visual and written) to a readership hungry for discussion of work by not only men but also women."
The growing ebook industry and authors' new ability to self-publish is breaking down the role of publishing houses as traditional gatekeepers.
A really awesome query that Query Shark got. It's not the kind of book I would read, but dayum, that marketing.
Jess Nevins illustrates for us how Mary Poppins is a horror film.
An interview with Junot Diaz at Boston Review. I've never read the Oscar Wao book, but was always intrigued by it. Some great stuff on privilege, youth, and specificity there.
OK, so, after all that, and you just want something less serious and stuff to kill time with:
Awesome sets of photographs, by two photographers who took some WWII-era photos, found their exact modern-day locations, and combined the two together: Amsterdam and various other places in Germany.
How to format Word docs for the Kindle.
Oh, mathy pedantry, sometimes you ARE useful.
Are cyber friendships REAL friendships? Of course they are.
A good graph for deciding whether you want to engage in certain kinds of debates. I don't like the bit about requiring hard evidence, but for most part it works.
Way too much effort put into make snacks look like gourmet food.
And FINALLY, just HAD to share this, an EPICALLY META YULETIDE FIC! I could barely make it through halfway, my mind was Just. That. Blown.
Have a good first full-length week of the new Gregorian year ahead!
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