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Given that there is a lot of discussion about Swancon being cliquey etc, some which I think is justified and some which makes me scratch my head and wonder what people expect to happen, perhaps having the gynaecon 10th birthday as a programme item isn't a good idea. So, shall we take it off the formal programme ( Read more... )

I have just had a read through of the Swancon 2010 draft program. Looking good - and hopefully will be on the website this week. Of oucrse there will be changes and some things will be shifted around and new panels added. Lots of space to be a presenter or participant ( Read more... )

I made a post about Gynaecon a while ago on my dreamwidth, intending to poke at it a bit then post it here, then forgot about it completely until the Swancon programming meeting today.

So, here it is!
Thinking about Gynaecon and Inclusiveness.

There's some discussion and clarification in the comments.

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Have you ever heard of Sarah Haskin?

I'm collecting a bunch of her vids (3:30 minutes each) so we can have a bit of a vidfest.

Check out the back of the toilet doors for more info! 

I am not going to be brining my t-shirt making stuff this year as it would be very difficult to drag it across the country, but I *did* buy a nifty little badge maker from the Australian Geographic shop the other day ( Read more... )

Given some of the idiot comments about breastfeeding at Swancon, may I suggest that we have a very public breastfeeding session just to piss them off???

Proposed Panels

Here are the proposed panels/discussions so far, what would be great is for people to indicate which panels they would like to see go ahead, which two or three they think have the greatest appeal to the wider swancon community and would therefor be best to have on the main program, which you would prefer to see in a more protected ( Read more... )

I will have a good look at this group tonight and then start sorting out an email to Maia about the two panel slots we had ( Read more... )