- In Which Asking for Citations & Offering Critique Makes Me the PC Police (with tweets)
- Before Shooting in Iraq, a Warning on Blackwater
- Charitable fundraising: wise as serpents, innocent as doves
- Tiny Letters to the Web We Miss
- No-one Is Coming To Take Away Your Shitty Toys
- An Open Letter to the Tiny White Man the Republican Party Has Sent to Live in My Underpants.
- Breaking The Low Mood Cycle
- Once More, With Feeling: A Belated Response
- Movements: Translations, the Mother Tongue, and Acts of Resistance (Part 1)
- Burned Out On Blogging?
- The Gary Stu, or Why I’m Not Subscribing to The Mary Sue Anymore
- What Happened to The Mary Sue?
- An open letter to all the other writers who, like me, panic at midnight about being failures
- Art supplies, Provence and Paris. Experiencing intense jealousy.
- The Risk in Speaking Up This is so true. So, so true.
- Becoming Jessica Fletcher: Celebrating Murder, She Wrote If you follow me on Twitter, you know I am kind of obsessed with this show.
- How J.K. Rowling Plotted Harry Potter with a Hand-Drawn Spreadsheet
- #TwitterPanic
- The Ping-Pong Theory of Tech-World Sexism
- Mom and daughter on reading together. I love this, so much.
- Police Bees: How Honey Bees Can Help Tackle Illegal Drug Cultivation
- More Than the Message
- Ira Glass’s ‘This American Life’ Leaves PRI
- A Woman Wrestles With A Disturbing Family Memento (tw: racism, death penalty)
- The Truth About Tinder and Women Is Even Worse Than You Think (tw: harassment)
- Fatal Victorian Fashion and the Allure of the Poison Garment
- When Feminists Are Gaslit
- Important Bird Posts This is BEST SITE EVERRRRR.
- So, You Want to Vote on Worldcon Location? Yay
- Transformers 4: Fuck This Movie Rachael, where can I contribute to your new liver fund?
- Robin Thicke’s Paula Is One of the Creepiest Albums Ever Made
- Snark? Crank? Maybe just a few thoughts on a minor phenomenon
- “Internet Famous”: Visibility As Violence On Social Media
- Diana L. Paxson clarifies a couple of things with regards to Marion Zimmer Bradley.
- The broad reach of the narrow Hobby Lobby ruling
- Sex-ed for the religious right: Conception does not occur at ejaculation
- Supreme Court Broadens Hobby Lobby Ruling to All Forms of Birth Control
- Female Justices issue searing dissent over new contraceptive case
Two things I read this week and loved:
- Polynia by China Mieville
- Baba Yaga Tries to Donate Money by Rose Lemberg
And a few updates on WisCon:
- Statements from WisCon Safety Chairs
- An economic data point This is an important post from Elise Matthesen on the economic costs of speaking up and reporting harassment.
- Three tweets from WisCon re: timeline for reports from subcommittees:
Selki says
July 6, 2014 at 9:39 pmBlackwater: Horrible.
Charitable fundraising: whoah, hate it when efficiency (fund-raising, low admin overhead) conflicts with goals and decency.
Cerulean Spork says
July 7, 2014 at 1:43 amnew wiscon post from one of the original ppl who reported frenkel , describing how she complained when she FOUND OUT FRENKEL WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ON PANELS THIS YEAR ! ! ! has anyone said anything abt this & did i just miss it ???
bc she warned them that they were setting themselves up for huge trouble by letting him come back
& so they took him off the panels –but still let him come & hang out & volunteer as we all know
http://freethoughtblogs.com/almostdiamonds/2014/07/05/returning-to-the-scene-or-coming-back-after-harassment/
Cerulean Spork says
July 7, 2014 at 11:30 ameta : altho stephanie zvan says she didnt report frenkel TO wiscon @ the time i consider her part of last yrs incident report bc 1 she posted in solidsrity w elise as part of the “me too” chorus that is the result of these dams of silence springig the 1st leak
& 2 , she did so on a big interdisciplinary blog tying it into the ongoing overarchin discussion of sexism & power in BOTH the science & science fiction communties
so if wiscon admins were unaware of it what w all the trackbacks & links to it on other blogs like yrs @ the time , it must have taken some doing
(woke up MORE gobsmacked @ the thought of THE WORLDS MOST FEMINIST CON(tm) puttin frenkel ON PANELS there is not enf coffee in the world to deal w this level of wtf @ any hour )
Selki says
July 8, 2014 at 2:09 amUnholy wow, Cerulean Spork. I hadn’t heard about that. And the Wiscon 38 co-chair just posted her apology to Dreamwidth: somewhat unsatisfying, especially after reading what you’ve linked to above.
Cassie says
August 2, 2014 at 5:14 am“Polynia” seems to have been taken down. I’m sad, as I’d really like to read something of his that you enjoyed, since I’ve only read Perdido Street Station and that made me really furious and I may have thrown the book.