Cyanea capillata in the sky 2 by Alexander Semenov

Hurray, Readercon! Con of my heart! Here’s my schedule.

And now, linkspam!

• On Facebook, Hating CNN 
  
• Long Live The Queen: A Game of Strategy, Intrigue, and Horrible, Adorable Death
• I Am a Handweaver
• Needlework (and here, with comments)
• Handwriting: yours, but better.
• The Comment Section For Every Article About Bikini Waxing Ever
• Personal rehabilitation and the community
• What To Expect When A Blog Post Goes Viral The numbers here haven’t been nearly as dramatic but the feelings I’ve been having are similar.
• A new exposé of Mother Teresa shows that she—and the Vatican—were even worse than we thought
• Medical romances: imperialism, nationalism, race and gender 
• Female inmates sterilized in California prisons without approval
• Rescue Me? Falling Free, by Lois McMaster Bujold 
• Beauty is an Impediment: Julia Pastrana and the Modern-Day Politics of Being Seen
• Maybe This Time
• DragonCon Finally Separates From Founder Ed Kramer
• Joan Parker, 80; writer and philanthropist was muse to her late husband, ‘Spenser’ novelist Robert B. Parker
• Monopoly acheived: An invincible Amazon begins raising prices and There are exactly zero defensible reasons for authors to link to Amazon I am totally guilty of choosing to link to Amazon–I am definitely going to be investigating the IndieBound affiliate program; one of the reasons I link to Amazon is that they make is so easy.
• La, la, la, I can’t hear you
• Ernest Hemingway reading The New York Times in bed, naked Does what it says.
• Nerds of a Feather interviews Aliette de Bodard
• It’s Heroine Week at Romance Around the Corner! So much awesome!
• “If, if, if.”
• A Lovely Portrait of a Larger Lady
• The Scrotum is Nuts
• “Dirty Dancing” Is  A Subversive Masterpiece Welp. I guess I don’t need to write that essay that’s been percolating in the back of my head for the last year as Lesley Kinzel says everything I’d want to and better than I would have said it anyhow. It was a staple of my teenaged sleepovers, too.
• Too Wonky for Primetime
• Disability in Kidlit

And here’s some more commentary on the recent unpleasantness in science fiction.

• Rose Lemberg: Weasels, monkeys, fish, oh my and an account of being harassed at Wiscon in 2012.
• Seanan McGuire: Accidents are harder than you think: harassment and all of us.
• Jaymee Goh: Con Moments: “What Are Your Credentials?”
• Victor Raymond: Harassment at SF Conventions
  
• Chris Gerwal: A Healthy Dose of Professionalism
• Jim C. Hines: Reporting Sexual Harassment in SF/F, 2013 Edition
• Paul Mcauley: The Other Half Of The Sky
• Jeff Eaton: But Being a Dick is Subjective