At the recent SFX Weekender, a convention with around 6000 attendees, author China Miéville stepped down from a panel because there weren’t any women on it. Paul Cornell followed up by publicly announcing that he would step down from any panel if he felt there was a gender imbalance to make space for a female author. “So, this year, I've decided ( Read more... )

This. This is win and what I've been trying to explain to people for ages. It's one of the things that really gets on my wick, and just another way that society belittles women and what we are interested in. Just because they don't have much directly to do with money, areas of love, family and children are often termed 'women's issues' and ( Read more... )

Work is relatively calm today, despite there being a large deadline tomorrow. I think this is due to all my stress happening last week so I got things done ahead of time, woo.

This means The Guardian is my usual friend when I get bored of proof-reading. And I give to you, in full, beneath the cut:

( Twenty reasons not to have children )

Right, with the news that Disney has designed wedding dresses based on their 'princesses' (although Mulan and Pocahontas are excluded, which is fair as Mulan probably would have slashed through the dress with her sword and Pocahontas was raped and then married off as a piece of property, which Disney somehow failed to include in their ( Read more... )

I had about three hours sleep last night.  WTF, brain?  Turn off, damn you!  Whisky and sleeping pills for 'Spanks tonight, methinks.  For I have a big night tomorrow - going to see The Automatic, among others, so I have to be awake to see their cover of Goldigger (Kanye West) which involves a rock flute.  I kid you not.

So I was a bit crap at ( Read more... )