Sunday Linkfest!
Aug. 8th, 2010 11:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jhameiaHappy Sunday, folks! This is my last week in Malaysia. Tomorrow, I fly off to Canadaland, and will only be able to snatch being online until I get internet in my new apartment.
If you're Indonesian and a fantasy writer, hie on over to the Fantasy Fiesta 2010, an Indonesian-language writing contest! Singaporean writers, or writers who live in Singapore, there's a steampunk anthology you could be contributing to!
I was also alerted by a [white] authour who's working on a Muslim Steampunk novel. The historical goodies are pretty good.
Literary agent Samantha Haywood on the changes in the publishing industry, and the tensions between selling to conglomerates and indie presses.
Foreign Policy has an article on a new Chinese science fiction novel, The Prosperous Time: China 2013.
laleia asks, is this what it's like to be white?
LJ Community Imaginary Beasts has a new issue up! The theme is Oceans and Seas.
Zuky talks about the white liberal conundrum.
Katrina Fox, editor-in-chief of The Scavenger, explains why white people like Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
K Tempest Bradford schooled a dude on the subway.
At Racialicious, Jessica Yee talks about how native women built the Tribal Law and Order Act. There is also a link roundup and open thread on the video game Hey Baby, a FPS where players play a woman who is CONTINUOUSLY. GETTING. HIT. ON. So you get to shoot the harassers in the face.
Jennifer Kesler shares a heinous luggage bag sticker, depicting a scared air stewardess bound and gagged in the luggage bag.
A deeply disturbing, and a must-read, article on the dancing prisoners of Cebu, who recently did a dance to Michael Jackson's They Don't Care About Us.
Recently, writer Elizabeth Bear had to be called out, again, on her use of the term "deathmarch" to describe writing a novel. Naturally, this cannot go without a response. I know I just posted these yesterday but in case you missed 'em.
fiction_theory: Because writing a book for fun and profit is totally just like what happened at Bataan
miir: Patalim (trigger warning for descriptions of violence)
ithiliana: One reason why anybody using 'PC' bugs the everyloving crap out of me
manifesta @ DW: I can't even think of a title for this (on "mythologizing")
glass_icarus: only our life, our life and its forgetting
troisroyaumes @ DW: On history and memory
miir: Ang di magnasang makaalpas
K Tempest Bradford: When Writers Fail To Understand How Words Work
Bear has since edited her post AND removed the offending tags. Which is nice.
Swan dive! Into the best kink meme of your life!glass_icarus shared this Old Spice Man + FEMINIST HULK + Judith Butler fic.
If you're Indonesian and a fantasy writer, hie on over to the Fantasy Fiesta 2010, an Indonesian-language writing contest! Singaporean writers, or writers who live in Singapore, there's a steampunk anthology you could be contributing to!
I was also alerted by a [white] authour who's working on a Muslim Steampunk novel. The historical goodies are pretty good.
Literary agent Samantha Haywood on the changes in the publishing industry, and the tensions between selling to conglomerates and indie presses.
Foreign Policy has an article on a new Chinese science fiction novel, The Prosperous Time: China 2013.
laleia asks, is this what it's like to be white?LJ Community Imaginary Beasts has a new issue up! The theme is Oceans and Seas.
Zuky talks about the white liberal conundrum.
Katrina Fox, editor-in-chief of The Scavenger, explains why white people like Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
K Tempest Bradford schooled a dude on the subway.
At Racialicious, Jessica Yee talks about how native women built the Tribal Law and Order Act. There is also a link roundup and open thread on the video game Hey Baby, a FPS where players play a woman who is CONTINUOUSLY. GETTING. HIT. ON. So you get to shoot the harassers in the face.
Jennifer Kesler shares a heinous luggage bag sticker, depicting a scared air stewardess bound and gagged in the luggage bag.
A deeply disturbing, and a must-read, article on the dancing prisoners of Cebu, who recently did a dance to Michael Jackson's They Don't Care About Us.
Recently, writer Elizabeth Bear had to be called out, again, on her use of the term "deathmarch" to describe writing a novel. Naturally, this cannot go without a response. I know I just posted these yesterday but in case you missed 'em.
fiction_theory: Because writing a book for fun and profit is totally just like what happened at Bataanmiir: Patalim (trigger warning for descriptions of violence)ithiliana: One reason why anybody using 'PC' bugs the everyloving crap out of memanifesta @ DW: I can't even think of a title for this (on "mythologizing")
glass_icarus: only our life, our life and its forgettingtroisroyaumes @ DW: On history and memory
miir: Ang di magnasang makaalpasK Tempest Bradford: When Writers Fail To Understand How Words Work
Bear has since edited her post AND removed the offending tags. Which is nice.
Swan dive! Into the best kink meme of your life!
glass_icarus shared this Old Spice Man + FEMINIST HULK + Judith Butler fic.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2010-08-08 06:43 am (UTC)Personally, I don't like Ayaan Hirsi at all. Whilst I applaud her for escaping her abusive environment and fighting against FGM, I'm disgusted by her bigoted remarks against Islam. Like Katrina Fox said, she basically re-enforces every horrible view that white people have of Islam without them ever questioning their own religion or the fact that not all Muslims are hardcore fanatics. It pisses me off to no end.
Ayaan Hirsi's comments about how Muslim schools would isolate Muslims, whereas this is not the case with Christian or Jewish schools is complete bullshit. We have quite a few (Orthodox) Jewish schools in Antwerp and yes, the Orthodox Jews here are isolated. They basically built their own community here and don't want to interact with anyone else. No one ever complains about it.
But when the Muslim community wants to do the same, then suddenly, it's not okay and they're condemned for not integrating. Double standards much?
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Date: 2010-08-08 07:24 am (UTC)Mmmmmmm.
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