Shimmer #17 ToC, out this summer:

"The Mostly True Story of Assman & Foxy" - Katherine Sparrow ( Read more... )

I just got back from WisCon and I stayed up until about three last night dancing with a holo glitter fedora on so I just CAN'T you guys but here are the books I bought when I went there intending to buy only maybe one


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Final WisCon schedule.

Cyborg Identities: Haraway and Beyond | Fri, 9:00-10:15 pm | Senate A | #Cyborgidentities
Moderator: Sunny Moraine. Participants: Scott E. Gould, Andrea D. Hairston, Lettie Prell, Micole Sudberg

Donna Haraway famously argued that cyborgs transcend science fiction and enter the realm of feminist theory - that we are all ( Read more... )

So it's been a week.

• I got sick. I got sick five days before my proposal defense. It started out as a cold and has since become a cough persistent enough and severe enough that I've only slept a few hours over the past few nights. Today I finally called the doctor and got an inhaler and some stuff with codeine in. Nothing else has worked, and if ( Read more... )

Here are - as of now - the panels I'll be on. Looks seriously awesome.

Cyborg Identities - Haraway and beyond (I proposed and will be moderating) - Donna Haraway famously argued that cyborgs transcend science fiction and enter the realm of feminist theory - that we are all cyborgs, transgressing identity boundaries and binaries and, in so doing, ( Read more... )

Good news: Scheherazade's Facade is fully funded. And then some. So it's going to be an actual book, in digital and dead tree editions. Fantastic work, all. Thanks so much to everyone who helped ( Read more... )

• Still sick. Getting better. Spring Break is next week and I plan to sleep through a lot of it.
• I'm sorry, do I now have two separate papers and a dissertation to work on over summer? Lordy lordy loo.
• The dystopian cyborg angel novel is nearing 30k words and going quite strong. Some of the worldbuilding feels like it needs work, but overall I'm ( Read more... )

Let myself sleep disgustingly late today. Feeling sort of better, all over. I still kind of think maybe I failed the comparative exam, but either way there's nothing to be done about that at this point, and I've often found that surrendering myself to fate like that is sort of comforting ( Read more... )

Did panels. Did reading. Did more panels. Met amazing people. Made amazing friends. Bought amazing books. Wore tiaras and fake mustaches. Danced like no one was watching, until 3 AM.

This is the note that roomie Nicole left for the cleaning people:


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lessthanpie, look what I spotted outside the main ballroom:


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