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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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One of the cool things I will remember about the blogosphere in 2009 was the amazing response to the TripleJ Hottest 100 of all time, as people across Australia responded to the gaping (and for many of us, quite shocking) lack of female representation in that list by celebrating ( Read more... )

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Raeli watched part of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Gene Wilder, not Johnny Depp) courtesy of my Dad the other day, and has managed to get herself well and truly traumatised about the fate of Violet Beauregarde (SPOILER, she turns into a giant blueberry). Nightmares and ( Read more... )

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And this is why Twitter rocks:

@clarkesworld: Three different slush stories had “hello kitty” references in them today. Hope this doesn’t mean there’s a HK theme anthology in the works

@tansyrr: @clarkesworld you didn’t hear about the special upcoming Hello Kitty issue of F&SF?

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I’m listening to the latest Sofanauts (no. 31) which is my latest obsession (in the last fortnight or so I have mainlined their entire backlist).  I’m loving the kind of discussions they have, about SF books and publishing and new media.  I occasionally arch an ( Read more... )