Well, I am. About to leave. I will be sharing a room with
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I haven't posted in response to a fandom debate in an extremely long time, and I feel nervous about posting this; but I was moved to write this during quiet moments in a busy day, and now I feel like I may as well share it. I haven't kept up with every debate so this may all already have been said better; I respect disagreement, appreciate that I ( Read more... )

This is a flying update to tell you that, if you were ever a child and you like to read things that make you cry sometimes, go read And Is There Honey Still for Tea? by Tryfanstone. It's Winnie the Pooh apocafic, and has something of the affective force of a slightly gentler Watership Down. I don't really think canon knowledge is necessary, though ( Read more... )

RaceFail continues unabated. rydra_wong has the details as ever hereI'm working on my dissertation prospectus, which for me means that I'm very immersed in questions of race and how they relate to science fiction, to gender and sexuality, to the future. I feel like adding another half a cent to the race debate may not be that useful to anyone; it's all being ( Read more... )

And in particular, the latest explosion wherein Elizabeth Bear declared that all her seeming engagement with the critiques of her portrayal of racialized groups had only been for the sake of looking good, that nonetheless she is guilty of no wrong and everyone should stop talking now...

This pretty much says it all. I don't think it even needs any ( Read more... )

I've had an unproductive today, which is bad, because I really do need to get to figuring some stuff out about my dissertation. And I'm exhausted, for no very good reason ( Read more... )

Overall reaction?

( spoilers for BSG 411 )

I finished watching Merlin.

( spoilers through 1.13 )

I'm excited to say that the first issue of the new open-access, peer reviewed journal for fan studies, Transformative Works and Cultures, is now online.

Issue here; press release hereThis issue includes (to pick out the ones that are most exciting to me personally) academic articles on disgruntled Hillary Clinton supporters as a "marginalized ( Read more... )

(It was a relatively quiet day at work today; my last week in my summer editing job. When I asked my boss what else there was to do she - who knows a fair bit about my interests and my research - said "Nothing, why don't you write something about cyborgs?" The post-vid Cylon theorizing I've been meaning to write up fits the 'assignment' perfectly. ( Read more... )