• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Home
  • About
  • Contact
  • Comment Policy
  • Nav Widget Area

    • Instagram
    • Pinterest
    • RSS
    • Tumblr
    • Twitter

Pretty Terrible

Pop Culture Criticism by Natalie Luhrs

January 20, 2016

Schedule: ConFusion 2016

Lo and behold, here is my schedule for ConFusion later this week! I’m from the Detroit area but this is my first time attending this con–and I get to see family for a few days afterwards. So I am really, really excited. Despite Michigan in January.

Friday

Justice for Ancillary Perspectives. 8 pm, Saugatuck. Ann Leckie’s now-complete trilogy of the Radch Empire has been critically and commercially praised for its exceptional blend of high concept space adventure and quiet contemplative look at identity and cultural constructs. Why has Leckie’s work succeeded? (Annalee Flower Horne (M), Jason Sanford, DongWon Song, Jenny Thurman, Natalie Luhrs)

Saturday

Any Similarity to Real People is Completely Coincidental. 2 pm, Isle Royale. It’s easy to pretend that made up worlds shrug off the bias and stereotypes of our reality. Orcs and Elves, Drow and Ogres, and dozens of other constructs grounded in bigoted world views say different. What can we learn from these mistakes? How do we keep these stereotypes from bleeding through into our made up worlds?(Steve Buchheit, Andrea Phillips, Mark Oshiro (M), Natalie Luhrs, Anna Carey)

The Princess Problem. 3 pm, Petoskey. Are princesses actually the problem? Does shaming the idea of princesses and the femininity they represent push girls out of the narrow marketing confines of the pink aisles, or does it harm them in other ways? What about girls of color who so rarely see themselves represented as princesses, or cis boys who want to be Elsa, or trans girls who want to see themselves, too? How do we combat the confining box that is “princess culture” without shaming kids who enjoy princesses and the positive traits they’ve come to represent? (Jim C. Hines, Merrie Haskell (M), Jen Talley, Natalie Luhrs, Navah Wolfe)

SciFi Disaster Movies. 6 pm, Keweenaw. What are the specific convention of science fiction disaster stories? What kind of stories can we tell with disaster tropes in SF? Does post-apocalyptic/dystopian SF count as disaster SF, and when does disaster SF become straight up horror? (Kentaro Toyama, Natalie Luhrs, Alex Kourvo)

 

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window)
  • More
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • Click to print (Opens in new window)

Related

Filed Under: Announcements Natalie Luhrs

About Natalie Luhrs

I'm a lifelong geek with a passion for books and social justice.

Reader Interactions

Three Things: Office Supplies
Links: 01/22/16

Primary Sidebar

Welcome

Hello! I’m Natalie Luhrs. I write about books and culture and whatever else strikes my fancy.

Search

Conventions

Balticon, May 25-28, 2018
Readercon, July 12-15, 2018
Capclave, September 28-30, 2018
World Fantasy Convention, November 1-4, 2018

Support Pretty Terrible

Updates by Email

Blog posts, cat pictures, and other random things in email? Sign up here.
 

 

Popular

  • Off To Be The Wizard, Scott Meyer
  • Lilian Jackson Braun, Part Two
  • Silence is Complicity
  • The Many-Colored Land, Julian May
  • I Read Cal Newport's Deep Work So You Don't Have To
  • Lilian Jackson Braun, Part One
  • Doing the Thing
  • 2017 Hugo Reading:A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
  • Review: Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho
  • Oh Dear: SFWA Bulletin Petition

Footer

Helpful Links

  • Home
  • About
  • Contact
  • Comment Policy
  • RSS - Posts

Archives

Looking for Something?

Recent Posts

  • Obligatory List of Media I Enjoyed in 2018
  • How lucky I am to be alive right now
  • Links Roundup 06 July 2018
  • Links Roundup 29 June 2018
  • Links Roundup 15 June 2018

Copyright © 2019 Natalie Luhrs · Pretty Happy On Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in

loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.