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In Which John C. Wright is Wrong About Everything, Forever, World Without End, Amen: An Open Letter

popelizbet May 08, 2014 21:25

If you haven’t been following the slowly-building SF/F fandom and genre dustup for the past few months, what follows may be of limited use to you, even if you follow the links. Fair warning.

Natalie Luhrs did a really good job of explaining how John C. Wright is Lying About Everything in order to make the bigotry of those he champions appear to ( Read more... )

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2013 Rhyslings: Awesome/Not So Awesome News

popelizbet Jul 17, 2013 16:51

Peeking my head up from the practice of law with some good news and some bad news.

The good news is that my Memphis Lovecraftian poem, "Memphis Street Railway Co. v. Stratton: 1915", originally published at New Myths, was nominated for a 2013 Rhysling Award by some wonderful soul. (It also got some lovely praise from very talented poet and editor ( Read more... )

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popelizbet Jul 14, 2011 10:30

Yes, I know, I am a ghost on LJ these days. Law school eats lives. It's like Cthulhu in that way.

Voting for the 2011 Rhysling Awards is still ongoing through this Friday, July 15 to current members of the Science Fiction Poetry Association (SFPA). My Frankenstein-inspired poem, Anything So Utterly Destroyed, is nominated in the long-form ( Read more... )

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[links] [news] what has the pope been up to?

popelizbet Jun 03, 2011 14:23

Hello Internet of mine! I missed you.

The second year of law school ate my life. I am making no promises about the third. But I promised K. Tempest Bradford (ktempest for her blog feed) that I would give her a links roundup; I know I have some new folks here on LJ since Wiscon; and I have exciting news of all kinds to share.

Today I have an interview ( Read more... )

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for no particular reason, poetry.

popelizbet Nov 05, 2010 12:31

No estés lejos de mí un solo día, porque cómo ( Read more... )

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[excitement] Something lovely for your Monday morning...

popelizbet Oct 04, 2010 08:39

So the mighty yuki_onna bought my poem about Frankenstein's second monster that I wrote for her workshop years ago, causing me to EEEE myself half to death.

Today is the day that it is available in Apex Magazine.

I encourage you to buy the issue or subscribe. Subscribing is a particularly good idea because if you do, you'll get the November issue too, ( Read more... )

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Moon Fail, Cat & Apex Win: November Call for Submissions from Arab &/or Muslim Writers

popelizbet Sep 20, 2010 11:44

Many of you may be aware of e-moon60's recent racist, Islamophobic rant in which she indicated the depth of her contempt for Muslims and immigrants, among others, then deleted the over-500 comments taking her to task for her conduct. If not, you may want to avoid reading it while you're eating, to say the least ( Read more... )

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this week in omg i am so busy i absolutely do not know how everything will get done

popelizbet Jan 29, 2010 00:13

pretzelcoatl just issued a Pretzel Snake God command for me to "Post moar" and karnythia and her minions are calling for voice posts.

I guess it's a good thing I have one of these winging my way even as we speak. I am an adult, and I deserve an adult glass phone. (The old one was tragic. Ask hnmic. Or thegreenyearI'm donating to Haiti through the law school's fundraisers. There's a ( Read more... )

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popelizbet Jan 10, 2010 11:05

Two things that delight, before I have to go pretend to be an adult for a while:

1.) myrrhmade just sent me the GORGEY gemstone necklace she made me; she made another for my sister following save_dave. Y'all. It is awesome. (Go lookit her LJ for pictures of my sister's stuff.) Blues and greens and purples and I want to hug it2.) Among all the good that is "lunch & ( Read more... )

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[ibarw] [help] Help Oyate.Org

popelizbet Jul 30, 2009 09:56

So I have been trying to get an IBARW post together, and a proper Lizbet Talks About Issues post may yet follow. But this needs to go up now, now, now.

I just got off the phone with Oyate.

People who hang around this web space and read the posts I make about representation in fiction, y'all have seen links to Oyate before.

Oyate is a Native ( Read more... )

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