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Some links on feminist issues, sexism & gender awareness.

Sarah Rees Brennan is writing awesomeness about women in fiction again, debunking all the dumb excuses people give for being more critical of female characters than male (features the big spoiler for The Demon’s Lexicon):

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My good friend Bry, an HP fanfic writer who recently dipped her fannish feet into Torchwood has written a lovely post/essay about how the chaotic ship wars and other general craziness/creativity of the HP fandom has helped her deal with the fallout of the recent Torchwood mini-series far more sensibly than other corners of fandom: Episode Four, ( Read more... )

You may have heard this claim about other things. They are of course gross hyperbole. The best thing ever on the internet is of course thisFor those of you who are not accustomed to wantonly clicking on links without some form of introduction, I will say only this: if you do not love Dr Horrible and Doctor Who then you are not in a position to ( Read more... )

Silvia Moreno-Garcia has written an interesting article about women and fanfic over at Fantasy Magazine. It's not particularly in-depth, but as something written by an outsider to fanfic and for outsiders to fanfic, it provides that rare thing - an examination of the topic that is respectful to women as readers and writers ( Read more... )

(if you're not involved with the Australian speculative fiction community and have never heard of a Ditmar, move along. Nothing to see here ( Read more... )