I'm feeling particularly lucky and happy of late to have found so many awesome women to admire, to look up to and have as examples of what I can do and be. Part of the ongoing discussion I've participated in here and on Galactic Suburbia and elsewhere has focussed on the percentage of female representation in various things like anthology table of ( Read more... )

And from Ursula Le Guin's Guest of Honour Speech at Wiscon 20:

And ain't I a woman? And ain't I a feminist? And ain't I an American, and a radical, and ain't I politically correct? Yes I am. I'm as politically correct as I know how to be , and nobody is going to shame me out of talking the way I think is right and working for what I love and ( Read more... )

I'm still in discussion with a couple of people in the last post I made on the topic. And something that springs to mind is what is meant by the word "privilege". People don't like the word, I guess, cause it's been used as a put down around the traps lately or as a way of dismissing someone's thoughts. But the way I see it is ... some people get ( Read more... )

Here's a really awesome post in Tempest Bradford's blog about the issue of diversity in science fictional anthologies.

To wit: when anthologies like this hit the Internets and we look at the TOC it’s very easy to notice that there are no women. It is therefore very easy to comment on and get angry about this fact.It is also easy for editors to ( Read more... )

How many people does it take to say that the gender inbalance in SF outlets is a problem before it's seriously acknowledged, and accepted, as a problem ( Read more... )

F&SF has a new article online, Women Writing Science Fiction: Some Voices From the Trenches, and is inviting discussion on its message board.

(Taken from Shaken and Stirred)


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