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One of my favourite fragments of the internet this week is an interview with Tricia Sullivan, one of those authors I’ve been meaning to get my hands on from her debut novel, though somehow I never have. The interview is fantastic and very inspiring - I very much sympathised with ( Read more... )

My full review of the three volumes of The Wiscon Chronicles is available to read now at AS if! These are amazing books, not just for what they have to say about the complex nature of discussions (online and in person) about gender, feminism, racial issues etc. but also for the way in which they document the feel and content of SF conventions ( Read more... )

girliejones linked to an interesting discussion on the rather anti-female winner and shortlist of this year's Miles Franklin award which also led me to this article in the Guardian about the best women in current American literature. Elaine Showalter, who has also written a book, A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie ( Read more... )

In which a very smart woman says some very important things about prejudice, invisibility and science fiction in an entirely beautiful way.

The article is riveting, I highly recommend it.

Interview with Feministing blogger Jessica Valenti

I've been reading Feministing for a long time, and it's one of my favourite 'what's going on in the world' blogs. The only downside to reading all your blogs through LJ is that I don't always know who is writing which articles, but even so it's hard to miss the huge contribution made by Jessica Valenti ( Read more... )

Like girliejones and callistra and I think some other female LJ users, I received an anonymous LJ donation today, which was rather lovely, and considering the pattern (barring all ever evidence) makes me think there is some awesome pro-feminist millionaire reading through the latest debate on women in science fiction (particularly here and here), awarding LJ brownie ( Read more... )