- Robert Heinlein on the Breendoggle (trigger warning: child rape apologia)
- Deirdre also very neatly summarizes her position on Samuel Delany’s decade(s)-old support for NAMBLA in an obscure interview. My position aligns with Deirdre’s. This is no longer a topic for discussion here.
- Fanstuff 27 (pdf): In which the pre-emptive banning of Walter Breen from Pacificon II on account of him being a rapist of children is discussed on pages 4 and 5. This was published in 2012. The man had been dead for 19 years at the time it was published and still. Still. Some people felt that it was wrong for him to be excluded from a convention and then from participation in an apa. Whatever.
- Who benefits from Marion Zimmer Bradley’s estate? Not her children! There are links there to a few places where you can buy things that will benefit Moira Greyland and her brother Mark.
- What Men’s Rights guru Warren Farrell actually said about the allegedly positive aspects of incest. This is old but I think it’s important to note that people with these ideas still have traction in parts of our culture.
- Everything Wrong With New York Magazine’s Terry Richardson Cover Story Make it stopppppp.
- No, Terry Richardson and New York: Being Down With Sexual Predators Doesn’t Make You Kind of Cool
- On doing a thing I needed to do Janni Lee Simner does a classy thing with her income from MZB-branded anthologies.
- Kari Sperring on Living as a woman in a science fiction future and on being collateral damage.
- Only YOU can prevent fires. Rachael Acks on rape prevention.
- On Louie. Once More. (trigger warning: discusses rape and abuse) Interesting analysis of a television show that I’m pretty sure I’m never going to watch.
- In praise of never reading the comments
- HR Antipatterns at Startups by the awesome and fiercely intelligent Shanley Kane
- Ann Leckie on swearing. Considering what a tizzy some people get into when the ladies swear, well. This is a fascinating post.
- Rambling, offensive – and unbeatable: beam me up, old-school sci-fi What a hot mess.
- SFF in Conversation: John Chu’s “Stand Back! I’m Going To Quote Junot Díaz (Thinking about language)” This, on the other hand, not a hot mess at all. Quite interesting in fact.
- Olivia Waite reads and annotates a writing book that thinks violence against women is the Way To Go.
- Meet The Girl Behind Ladypockets, The Fashion Blog For Girls Who Don’t Like Fashion Blogs Seriously, Ladypockets is fantastic.
- I Was Tony Gwynn’s Bat Boy
- The Jumble of Chronic Mental Illness
- Embroidered Landscapes and Plants by Ana Teresa Barboza
- I just love these pictures and Kate Davies’s commentary on The Great Tapestry of Scotland. So much skill and time and love and artistry went into this. Really, just an astonishing achievement.
Friday Links: Ugly Leggings Edition
Ugly leggings, balls, and trauma. Not necessarily in that order.
Just wanted to say thanks for putting together all these links. Like a lot of people, I’d never heard the term Breendoggle until this year, and it’s quite a shock that something like this went on for so long, and is still going on, in some ways.
A lot of times I’ll see a pile of steaming horribleness like this dragged out of the depths of fandom, and my instinct is to clap my hands over my ears and sing “La la la la I can’t hear this!” [Skips off through a field of privilege and buttercups]
Of course, that’s not the way to build a better fandom. You have to know the true history, and what’s going on now. So thanks for trawling through all this for the rest of us. It’s good work.
I still think you should have gone with my Angelfire idea. 😉
In addition to the wealth of excellent voices you highlight every week, I want to thank you in particular for the fact that you also highlight a piece of art as well. I always enjoy the work you select, and I love that you always include them.
(And the glasswork this week is stunning!)
I loved the embroidary–thanks for the link! (and the others too, but the embroidary made me happiest!)