I'm thinking about going to Diversicon in the Twin Cities at the end of July and am wondering if anyone else is going.  Also, if you've gone before, I would love to hear what you think about it.
Thanks.

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I have had a less than wonderful spring, what with quitting my job, conducting a job search in a recession, getting sick, not getting a job twice, having an allergic reaction to something in my garden, and still being unemployed, so I plan to enjoy myself thoroughly at the convention, 'cause Lard knows I need it!  Plus, I am sooooo excited to see ( Read more... )

Did reading that subject line get you all excited, thinking that there would be a Think Galacticon in 2011? 
Did it bring back fond memories of fabulous conversations with interesting people about leftist science fiction? 
Did you grab your calendars to mark down the date?

Well then, check this out community.livejournal.com/think_galactic/2010/01/ ( Read more... )

Capricon is almost here and folks have been asking when the programming schedule will be available-well, it's here!  Check out www.capricon.org/capricon30/. 
I worked on programming, so feel free to share comments.

omigod!  I so want to go to iafa.org/! 
I'm sure I saw the call for presentations, but since I'm not a submit a presentation kind of person, I probably just ignored it (I will not make this mistake again!).  Today, nojojojo posted some wonderful thoughts about Racefail and mentioned the conference, which I looked up and read the tentative program schedule ( Read more... )

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X, Why? Minorities in a Large Field, or Majorities in Our Own
Alexander Jablokov, Henry Melton, Kathryn Cramer, Ellen Klages
Joanna Russ said in 1983: “But remember, one can’t get minority work into the canon by pretending it’s about the same  things or uses the same techniques as majority work.” Does this mean we should think of feminist SF (or ( Read more... )

oops-I think I did it again.  I think it has something to do with saving as a draft then posting later.

http://izzybelbooks.livejournal.com/24628.html

 First, some technical details…
All the panel descriptions and panelist info are taken from the draft of the program guide, which is not always the final version, so there may be differences. I didn’t take notes, so I may be forgetting entire conversations, and I’m sure I don’t remember the order of comments in longer panels. Also, all “quotes” are ( Read more... )

First, some technical details…
All the panel descriptions and panelist info are taken from the draft of the program guide, which is not always the final version, so there may be differences. I didn’t take notes, so I may be forgetting entire conversations, and I’m sure I don’t remember the order of comments in longer panels. Also, all “quotes” are ( Read more... )