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Sunday Linkfest!
Apr. 25th, 2011 09:46 amWell, kinda. I wanted to post this yesterday but I was focused on finishing my last paper of the semester, and it's done! It's basically me spouting Sara Ahmed's theory of happiness from her book The Promise of Happiness and linking it to Nancy Fraser's concept of the counterpublic and talking about RaceFail and the WisCon POC Safe Space as a counterpublic from the ideals of post-racial happiness impressed on us from the larger SFF fandom. Yeah. Theorizing. Fun. (Also, it's a terrible paper)
First, some signal boosting!
Vera Nazarian of Norilana Press could use some help! She has to move and needs money, but she offers some very nifty books, so check out her catalog!
Are you a POC going to WisCon35? Tempest has been put in charge of the POC Safer Space and would like your suggestions.
Puddletown Publishing Group is looking for submissions from women of colour.
Crossed Genres is also looking for novel submissions! The genre for May is Heroes/Heroines.
Nevermet Press has an open call for their anthology Stories In The Ether.
Samuel Delany's got new fiction out and Nalo Hopkinson's Skin Folk is going to be a movie! Hooray POC spec fic writers!
OK, some serious business:
The Royal College of Psychiatrists held a conference called "Time For Change" and there are some VERY transphobic speakers. Change? What change?
A trans woman was beaten at a McDonald's AND NOBODY HELPED.. Video of her speaking out here.
5 Myths About Why Women Earn Less Than Men. Handy to keep on hand.
Kite Runner as an example of a New Orientalist narrative.
How to make a Chinese or Japanese book cover.
My guest post over at Steamed! on steampunk postcoloniality. Don't read the comments.
Are Muslim women allowed to marry non-Muslim men? A really cool article that digs right into the Quran for the answer.
An intersex person speaks out about the forced genital surgery that all intersex babies have to go through.
Why Do We Need Black Speculative Fiction? Why indeed!
A review of Cindy Pon's Silver Phoenix, pointing out how unfeminist it is. Good reading and pinpointed some things I was uncomfortable with when reading the book but wanted time away from it before I thought about it more.
The Adult Privilege Checklist.
10 Conversations on Racism that I'm Sick of Having with White People.
A primer on the class dynamics of Asian-Americans. Pretty 101 stuff, but useful!
A brief biography of Benjamin Franklin's not-famous sister, Jane Mecom, through the letters they wrote each other.
Tenured Radical on some advice on how to deal with asshole students trying to get a rise out of you for your politics.
Not so serious business:
The storySouth Million Writers Award: Notable Stories of 2010. With links to the stories which are mostly online! :D And on that note, Congratulations to all Hugo Nominees! And to Saladin Ahmed for his Campbell nomination!
Jess Nevins gives us a brief history of the female mad scientist.
Some famous stars as Disney characters. I personally cannot identify most of them but maybe you can.
For Easter, Tor lists SFF bunnies and other rabbit-type creatures.
Some really really bad porn. You were warned.
How to make panda bread.
Wildunicornherd read Jo Walton's "When we were robots in Egypt" at her Seder dinner. Yes, it was a nerdy thing to do, but that is why I heart her.
And finally, an oldie but a goodie: Excerpt from a Letter by a Socialist-Realist Aswang by Kristen Mandigma.
First, some signal boosting!
Vera Nazarian of Norilana Press could use some help! She has to move and needs money, but she offers some very nifty books, so check out her catalog!
Are you a POC going to WisCon35? Tempest has been put in charge of the POC Safer Space and would like your suggestions.
Puddletown Publishing Group is looking for submissions from women of colour.
Crossed Genres is also looking for novel submissions! The genre for May is Heroes/Heroines.
Nevermet Press has an open call for their anthology Stories In The Ether.
Samuel Delany's got new fiction out and Nalo Hopkinson's Skin Folk is going to be a movie! Hooray POC spec fic writers!
OK, some serious business:
The Royal College of Psychiatrists held a conference called "Time For Change" and there are some VERY transphobic speakers. Change? What change?
A trans woman was beaten at a McDonald's AND NOBODY HELPED.. Video of her speaking out here.
5 Myths About Why Women Earn Less Than Men. Handy to keep on hand.
Kite Runner as an example of a New Orientalist narrative.
How to make a Chinese or Japanese book cover.
My guest post over at Steamed! on steampunk postcoloniality. Don't read the comments.
Are Muslim women allowed to marry non-Muslim men? A really cool article that digs right into the Quran for the answer.
An intersex person speaks out about the forced genital surgery that all intersex babies have to go through.
Why Do We Need Black Speculative Fiction? Why indeed!
A review of Cindy Pon's Silver Phoenix, pointing out how unfeminist it is. Good reading and pinpointed some things I was uncomfortable with when reading the book but wanted time away from it before I thought about it more.
The Adult Privilege Checklist.
10 Conversations on Racism that I'm Sick of Having with White People.
A primer on the class dynamics of Asian-Americans. Pretty 101 stuff, but useful!
A brief biography of Benjamin Franklin's not-famous sister, Jane Mecom, through the letters they wrote each other.
Tenured Radical on some advice on how to deal with asshole students trying to get a rise out of you for your politics.
Not so serious business:
The storySouth Million Writers Award: Notable Stories of 2010. With links to the stories which are mostly online! :D And on that note, Congratulations to all Hugo Nominees! And to Saladin Ahmed for his Campbell nomination!
Jess Nevins gives us a brief history of the female mad scientist.
Some famous stars as Disney characters. I personally cannot identify most of them but maybe you can.
For Easter, Tor lists SFF bunnies and other rabbit-type creatures.
Some really really bad porn. You were warned.
How to make panda bread.
Wildunicornherd read Jo Walton's "When we were robots in Egypt" at her Seder dinner. Yes, it was a nerdy thing to do, but that is why I heart her.
And finally, an oldie but a goodie: Excerpt from a Letter by a Socialist-Realist Aswang by Kristen Mandigma.