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Beyond Binary
Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction by Brit Mandelo
Loving this book! I haven't finished it yet, but I probably will over the weekend.
Stories by keyan_bowes, kehrli, ellen_kushner, deliasherman and other cool people!
Wanted to point people to Nicola Griffith's interview with Brit Mandelo: part 1, part 2, and part 3.
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Wiscon Schedule
Because all the cool kids are doing it, here's my Wiscon schedule:
Friday 9pm - 10:15pm
YA Love Triangles - Cultural Advance or Retreat?A common theme in popular YA novels, spec fic and otherwise, is the ongoing love triangle-usually one girl who is in love with two boys. So far, she always chooses just one of them. Why is this so popular right ( Read more... ) -
Grr, yea
So I went to check my Yahoo Mail and saw this article. Yahoo loves to blast you with news headlines to get you to read them. And sometimes it works.
Reporter Megan Carpentier undergoes ‘unnecessary’ transvaginal ultrasound to frame abortion debateI'll put the rest under a cut, because it's potentially triggering, though the quote I use and I ( Read more... ) -
On Podcasts
I've only recently gotten into listening to podcasts. Yea, I could totally do it on my mp3 player or, even more easily, on my iphone. But maybe I'm old-school or something. I just listen on the computer.
I've sampled a few, but here's the three I'll be coming back to regularly:
Outer Alliance Podcast - Julia Rios interviews cool people, or ( Read more... ) -
Gay YA Dystopias
If you're looking for more discussion and recommendations of dystopian YA with LGBT characters, you can't do much better than starting here with The Outer Alliance spotlight #96. -
Some thoughts on "The Invisible Dystopia"
Saw a link to this last Friday, but didn't get around to read it until today. Paolo Bacigalupi on why no quiltbag people in dystopias.
I'd actually been thinking about this myself, in that weird hivemind/thoughts-in-the-ether way, last week. I'm currently reading Delirium by Lauren Oliver. This is at least the fourth dystopian YA I've read about a ( Read more... ) -
Signal Boost: Scheherazade's Facade Kickstarter
I backed my first Kickstarter project this weekend, so I'd like to see it succeed!
Scheherazade's FacadeMan, that's a hard name to type ( Read more... ) -
Boskone Con Report #1
This was my first Boskone. Also, since I've never attended an Arisia, it was my first time in this con hotel as well. I was waffling all over the place, so I missed the room block at the con hotel. I called to see the price of a non-block room and it was $260. Yea.. no. So I stayed at the Marriott Renaissance a block or so away. Both hotels only ( Read more... ) -
Signalboost : Guest of Honor Nominations for Wiscon
Know of someone who'd make an awesome Wiscon GOH? Have someone you're dying to see? Nominate!
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Yea, one more post!
Con or Bust auction starts just past midnight tonight.
Con or BustI've resisted looking at the things going up in any detail, since I couldn't bid yet. But some good stuff and some good stuff sure to come ( Read more... )