Wiscon!
Hey! Who's going to Wiscon this year? Want to hang out? I am especially looking for anyone who wants to hang out during the parties, but not at the parties, because I find them too loud, crowded, and stressful. Let us have a quiet conversation with tea! Or coffee. Or alcohol. Or pie.
Panels that I'm on:
Fantasy in Jane the Virgin; Sun, 4:00-5:15 pm
Jane the Virgin switches genres as comfortably as languages. How do the fantasy sequences work within the reality of the show? What about the bits that look like fantasy, but aren't, like the shower of petals or artificial snow that just happens to fall when Jane is kissing Rafael or Michael? How do the inanimate objects that speak to Jane compare to the ones that speak to Jaye in Wonderfalls? And what about The Narrator?
What Happened to the Women SF Writers? Mon, 10:00-11:15 am
Recent articles-such as an essay by Damien Walter in The Guardian, “Science fiction and fantasy look ahead to a diverse 2016”-have argued that SF writers have all been straight, white men until very recently. What has happened to the women writers who flooded into SF in the 1970s, not to mention earlier and later women writers? Why have they been vanished from the field's history?
cups brewed at DW
Panels that I'm on:
Fantasy in Jane the Virgin; Sun, 4:00-5:15 pm
Jane the Virgin switches genres as comfortably as languages. How do the fantasy sequences work within the reality of the show? What about the bits that look like fantasy, but aren't, like the shower of petals or artificial snow that just happens to fall when Jane is kissing Rafael or Michael? How do the inanimate objects that speak to Jane compare to the ones that speak to Jaye in Wonderfalls? And what about The Narrator?
What Happened to the Women SF Writers? Mon, 10:00-11:15 am
Recent articles-such as an essay by Damien Walter in The Guardian, “Science fiction and fantasy look ahead to a diverse 2016”-have argued that SF writers have all been straight, white men until very recently. What has happened to the women writers who flooded into SF in the 1970s, not to mention earlier and later women writers? Why have they been vanished from the field's history?
cups brewed at DW