the birthday of the world…or the writer, as it were.

21Oct09

Through the grapevine, I wanted to contribute my post of a very happy 80th birthday to Ursula K LeGuin, wicked important SFF writer and commentator, as well as inventor of the handy ansible!  Your books are truly inspiring and life-changing, and I wish you many happy returns. If you haven’t picked up a book by […]

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Tags: newsflash, sci-fi means science fiction, the lady is a geek

Web-Based Intersectionality!

15Oct09

Right–in case you’re tired of waiting around for me to make a post on here (and I’m not abandoning this blog, mind), you can get Bene quick hits at my Dreamwidth account. Feel free to subscribe.

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invisible/indivisible

07Oct09

Co-signed. Yes, I’m emerging from the metaphorical woodwork.  I was slightly reticent to do so, as I haven’t been around that much, and I’ve not always been the best in checking my language, even as a PWD myself… (Crap, outed myself without the long post I’ve been meaning to write for months.  I blame the fact […]

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Tags: and now a word from our sponsor, feminist thought, fuck that noise: language talk, grinding my axe

not ready to play nice

30Jun09

In case you don’t pay attention to online fandom, the shit hit the fan last week in a way that manages to drag me out of my sort of hiatus state and into a ranty frame of mind.  It started out in bandom (indie band RPS/F, which personally, I don’t get the appeal of, but […]

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Tags: mark of cain and edge of able, metaculture, oh no you didn't, second class fan citizens

Again, still here.

23May09

Just have had a bunch of computer problems and massive piles of RL-based stress. Lots to say about Abrams!Trek, including WHERE DID THE WOMEN GO, but that will have to wait until I’m in a better brainspace. Oh, and mammoth!fail. Massive squee for those at WisCon, btw.

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Still here, still me…

05Apr09

Just had a stressful few weeks, I’m afraid.  This time of year and I don’t usually get on so well.  Stay tuned.

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Quick Hit: Feminism, Whedon, blah blah

19Mar09

So apparently Joss Whedon would like you to ignore what he says about himself being a feminist, in the context of his showsetc., because the author’s intention shouldn’t be relevant in deciding if a work is feminist. Sounds sensical, but I’d buy that a LOT quicker if he weren’t already milking the auteur role for everything […]

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Tags: girls on film, grinding my axe, oh no you didn't

Note To Self: Memory Improvement

06Mar09

Now that my anger (including basically being told en masse to sit down and shut up, admittedly in an eloquent way) has burned down to simmering rage, I have a couple of things to ponder intelligently: – oyceter asks what those who were silent are going to do, what SF fandom will do to welcome […]

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Tags: and now a word from our sponsor, meta-bene, race is a four letter word

An Addendum ’cause I don’t know when to stfu.

04Mar09

And on the same topic as the last: I went to Smith, on generous grants from an endowment sponsored by donations big and small and investments both ethically sound and dubious.  My father is a manual laborer, and my mother teaches in a public school.  Yes, I am white.  Yes, I grew up lower-middle-class and […]

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Tags: meta-bene, oh no you didn't, race is a four letter word, second class fan citizens

and Bene shows her hand

03Mar09

I don’t usually say things like this.  Mostly because I don’t find it productive.  But wow, hearing about what just happened to Micole as part of Racefail?  That sort of broke me. The ‘progressive’ SF establishment?  You can all kindly go fuck off and die.  Right now.  You fucking elitist self-aggrandizing asswipes. How dare you […]

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Tags: oh no you didn't, race is a four letter word, second class fan citizens