Sunday Linkfest!
Hello all! It's Sunday! I've been waking up at 1pm for the last few days, maybe in preparation of the 31st where I will have to stay awake very late for NYE shenanigans. Anyway, here are some links for you!
A call for papers for Neo-Victorian Networks: Epistemologies, Aesthetics and Ethics.
Do you believe in a project made for and by queer POC? Then please support the Arkh Project!
Interested in an anthology of spec fic inspired by Filipino mythology? Check out Alternative Alamat! (Editor Paolo Chikiamco also has a review of Writing the Other by Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward.)
Some seasonal items:
A note from a Chinese restaurant thanks Jews for eating Chinese food on Christmas
"Yes, We Know It's Christmas," say African Musicians as They Finally Record a Response to Band-Aid (this is a satire site, alas, but, it's still hilarious! I encourage you to check out the rest of the site.)
Allison Curval, composer for The Clockwork Dolls, has the entire instrumental collection of the last 4 years for free download until Jan 1. The tracks are demo unmastered tracks, and don't really demonstrate the full power of the album Dramatis Personae, but it's still neat.
After Nnedi received her racist award, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, editor of Innsmouth Free Press, responds. I feel it's really important to note that Moreno-Garcia is a WOC running a Lovecraftian zine.
In more pop culture news, A POC cast for Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Agree, disagree?
A Dutch magazine calls Rihanna a n*gg*b*tch, out of ill-informed and deeply-set racism, hides behind "ignorance" (look, scary forrenners, anyone can tell that the N-word is a horrible racist slur just by paying a bit of attention, jeepers). Rihanna responds.
Philip Cheah says something about film festivals in the Third World. I'm not familiar with the film festival circuit, but maybe you are.
In other news, seems the first HIV cases in Africa coincides with polio vaccine testing. Hmmmm.
US Charities buy Kenyan Samburu land. Kenyan Samburu people are evicted. Colonialism continues under the guise of saving wildlife.
This continued colonialism is part of a larger pattern, as 50 years after Franz Fanon's death and his last testimony The Wretched of the Earth, his work remains relevant, even prophetic.
(As an aside, talking about colonialism, here's an archive of film footage from the time of the British Empire.)
TRIGGER WARNING: War photos and data of US soldiers raping Iraqi women emerge. Land of the free and all.
In India, an Indian inventor disrupts the sanitary napkins industry. Basically he invented a way to more cheaply produce sanitary napkins, so women could afford them, and these machines are a lot cheaper so local women could start their own business producing them. I highly highly recommend reading this, and spreading the word. THIS is what people helping people within the limits of capitalism does.
Speaking of capitalism, here's bfp talking about how capitalism operates and why we need to question it. Aaaaand we're back to news in the States.
Six years after Katrina, New Orleans struggles to rebuild infrastructure.
Chimamanda Adichie weighs in on the DSK case.
An Open Letter to Newt Gingrich from a Black Kid who Grew Up in a Poor Neighbourhood.
Global Comment on the Curious silence around a transgender hero... please stop calling Private Manning "Bradley"; her name is Breanna Manning.
POC Organize have an eulogy to SlutWalk.
And commenting on the corporatization of education, "We Are Not Contingent: An Adjunct Manifesto"
Here is a brief biography of Lucy Parsons, a black activist considered "More dangerous than a thousand rioters" for good reason.
Abagond delineates four frames of colour-blind racism.
In lighter things, here's how to send a brick to bulkmailers. Thoughts? I think it's a mean thing to do; would it really create more jobs?
Salon's thing on why women need fat.
Parent Map's alternatives to spanking in discipline... proving to me further that the world needs more people helping out with parenting.
To finish, since this is the last Sunday of the year, here is a selection of online fiction I read and enjoyed from the admittedly very few venues I read on any kind of basis. Some of them I read on my Kobo, buying and downloading issues at random. Some I read when the issue came up. Many of them from 2010... I did some very limited reading of short fiction and poetry this year, since I was so caught up in reading non-fiction and writing on novels, so *cough*
From Stone Telling:
- Mother Frankenstein by Liz Henry
- Celestial Celebrities by Meena Kandasamy
From Expanded Horizons:
- The Rumpelstiltskin Retellings: A Series of Poetic Blogs by Keyan Bowes
- The River's Children by Shweta Narayan
From Strange Horizons:
- L'Aquilone du Estrellas (The Kite of Stars)by Dean Francis Alfar (actually I first read this in the Apex Book of World SF; this story made me miss my bus stop)
- Doctor Diablo Goes Through the Motions by Saladin Ahmed
(there are a couple more from Strange Horizons I liked but I cannot remember for the life of me what they're called. Haih.)
From Beneath Ceaseless Skies:
- Mister Hadj's Sunset Ride by Saladin Ahmed
- The Secret of Pogopolis by Matthew Bey (because seriously, a city in a giant pogo stick, come on)
From Usok, The Widow and the Princess of the Dwende by Elaine Cuyegkeng.
And I re-read Kristin Mandigma's "Excerpt from a Letter by a Socialist-Realist Aswang" last night and it remains amazing to read out loud.
Hope your Christmas is a safe and peaceful one.
This entry was originally posted at http://jhameia.dreamwidth.org/44235.html. Please comment there using OpenID.
A call for papers for Neo-Victorian Networks: Epistemologies, Aesthetics and Ethics.
Do you believe in a project made for and by queer POC? Then please support the Arkh Project!
Interested in an anthology of spec fic inspired by Filipino mythology? Check out Alternative Alamat! (Editor Paolo Chikiamco also has a review of Writing the Other by Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward.)
Some seasonal items:
A note from a Chinese restaurant thanks Jews for eating Chinese food on Christmas
"Yes, We Know It's Christmas," say African Musicians as They Finally Record a Response to Band-Aid (this is a satire site, alas, but, it's still hilarious! I encourage you to check out the rest of the site.)
Allison Curval, composer for The Clockwork Dolls, has the entire instrumental collection of the last 4 years for free download until Jan 1. The tracks are demo unmastered tracks, and don't really demonstrate the full power of the album Dramatis Personae, but it's still neat.
After Nnedi received her racist award, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, editor of Innsmouth Free Press, responds. I feel it's really important to note that Moreno-Garcia is a WOC running a Lovecraftian zine.
In more pop culture news, A POC cast for Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Agree, disagree?
A Dutch magazine calls Rihanna a n*gg*b*tch, out of ill-informed and deeply-set racism, hides behind "ignorance" (look, scary forrenners, anyone can tell that the N-word is a horrible racist slur just by paying a bit of attention, jeepers). Rihanna responds.
Philip Cheah says something about film festivals in the Third World. I'm not familiar with the film festival circuit, but maybe you are.
In other news, seems the first HIV cases in Africa coincides with polio vaccine testing. Hmmmm.
US Charities buy Kenyan Samburu land. Kenyan Samburu people are evicted. Colonialism continues under the guise of saving wildlife.
This continued colonialism is part of a larger pattern, as 50 years after Franz Fanon's death and his last testimony The Wretched of the Earth, his work remains relevant, even prophetic.
(As an aside, talking about colonialism, here's an archive of film footage from the time of the British Empire.)
TRIGGER WARNING: War photos and data of US soldiers raping Iraqi women emerge. Land of the free and all.
In India, an Indian inventor disrupts the sanitary napkins industry. Basically he invented a way to more cheaply produce sanitary napkins, so women could afford them, and these machines are a lot cheaper so local women could start their own business producing them. I highly highly recommend reading this, and spreading the word. THIS is what people helping people within the limits of capitalism does.
Speaking of capitalism, here's bfp talking about how capitalism operates and why we need to question it. Aaaaand we're back to news in the States.
Six years after Katrina, New Orleans struggles to rebuild infrastructure.
Chimamanda Adichie weighs in on the DSK case.
An Open Letter to Newt Gingrich from a Black Kid who Grew Up in a Poor Neighbourhood.
Global Comment on the Curious silence around a transgender hero... please stop calling Private Manning "Bradley"; her name is Breanna Manning.
POC Organize have an eulogy to SlutWalk.
And commenting on the corporatization of education, "We Are Not Contingent: An Adjunct Manifesto"
Here is a brief biography of Lucy Parsons, a black activist considered "More dangerous than a thousand rioters" for good reason.
Abagond delineates four frames of colour-blind racism.
In lighter things, here's how to send a brick to bulkmailers. Thoughts? I think it's a mean thing to do; would it really create more jobs?
Salon's thing on why women need fat.
Parent Map's alternatives to spanking in discipline... proving to me further that the world needs more people helping out with parenting.
To finish, since this is the last Sunday of the year, here is a selection of online fiction I read and enjoyed from the admittedly very few venues I read on any kind of basis. Some of them I read on my Kobo, buying and downloading issues at random. Some I read when the issue came up. Many of them from 2010... I did some very limited reading of short fiction and poetry this year, since I was so caught up in reading non-fiction and writing on novels, so *cough*
From Stone Telling:
- Mother Frankenstein by Liz Henry
- Celestial Celebrities by Meena Kandasamy
From Expanded Horizons:
- The Rumpelstiltskin Retellings: A Series of Poetic Blogs by Keyan Bowes
- The River's Children by Shweta Narayan
From Strange Horizons:
- L'Aquilone du Estrellas (The Kite of Stars)by Dean Francis Alfar (actually I first read this in the Apex Book of World SF; this story made me miss my bus stop)
- Doctor Diablo Goes Through the Motions by Saladin Ahmed
(there are a couple more from Strange Horizons I liked but I cannot remember for the life of me what they're called. Haih.)
From Beneath Ceaseless Skies:
- Mister Hadj's Sunset Ride by Saladin Ahmed
- The Secret of Pogopolis by Matthew Bey (because seriously, a city in a giant pogo stick, come on)
From Usok, The Widow and the Princess of the Dwende by Elaine Cuyegkeng.
And I re-read Kristin Mandigma's "Excerpt from a Letter by a Socialist-Realist Aswang" last night and it remains amazing to read out loud.
Hope your Christmas is a safe and peaceful one.
This entry was originally posted at http://jhameia.dreamwidth.org/44235.html. Please comment there using OpenID.