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August 22, 2014

Crowd-Sourced Links: 08/22/14

My in-laws are in town, so I don’t have time to do family things and compile a full-length links post.  Feel free to drop interesting links in the comments–in the mean time, here are a scant handful (and a pretty picture):

  • Let’s talk about category structure and oppression! Completely fascinating, interesting, and kind of mind-blowing post from Shweta Narayan.
  • Kameron Hurley on Gender, Family, Nookie: The Speculative Frontier. In which Kameron points out that the appeal of the alpha males? Totally a patriarchal bargain.
  • Ferguson protests over Michael Brown won’t end soon: The black community’s anger is rooted in a history of racism. Utterly essential reading about what’s going on in #Ferguson.

Wee adorable embroidered bunny by Chloe Giordano. Lovely work.

embroidered bunny  by chloe giordano

embroidered bunny by chloe giordano

I like the idea of having an open post once a month for all of you to contribute links–what do you all think?

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  1. DameB says

    August 22, 2014 at 2:11 pm

    I liked this artistic critique of the Spider Woman covers. (http://www.themarysue.com/controversial-spider-woman-covers-redrawn/) Who at Marvel thought it was a good idea to hire Milo Manara? I love his smut but… he is a SMUT artist! I expect this sort of nonsense from DC but Marvel should know better.

  2. Bluegreen Circles says

    August 22, 2014 at 4:45 pm

    Glenn Greenwald’s latest: “Should Twitter, Facebook and Google Executives be the Arbiters of What We See and Read?” at https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/08/21/twitter-facebook-executives-arbiters-see-read/ is a good read. It discusses speech in particular (and is probably extendable to money as well, given recent Supreme Court decisions that the two are equivalent.)

  3. Martin Wisse says

    August 22, 2014 at 6:41 pm

    Two links about diversity at the London Worldcon: Conventions, hierarchies and forced diversity and On LonCon3, Diversity and Hierarchies

    One about getting about LonCon3 and London in a wheelchair: Flat Out: Worldcon on Wheels.

    And finally, African science fiction recommendations from Nine Worlds.

  4. HelenS says

    August 22, 2014 at 7:41 pm

    http://geekfeminism.org/2014/08/22/words-arent-magic/ “So let’s talk about This Shit Right Here (that’s an archive.today link), in which technology consultant Jeff Reifman accuses Geek feminism blogger Leigh Honeywell and advice columnist Captain Awkward of harassment.”

  5. Petréa Mitchell says

    August 23, 2014 at 5:14 pm

    Now’s the time to make suggestions to next year’s Worldcon!

  6. Charlotte says

    August 27, 2014 at 8:56 pm

    Here is the program for KidLitCon 2014– Blogging Diversity in Young Adult and Children’s Lit: What’s Next?
    October 11 and 12, 2014 Sacramento, CA

    http://www.kidlitosphere.org/news/2014/8/25/kidlitcon-2014-program.html

    It would be great for the news to reach beyond the relatively small children’s book blogger world, because we have some great speakers!

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