31.12.2011

Bastante aburrido.

2011, 2011: cuento en castellano, book-2011, #cuento/short-story, *author: female, @leido en castellano, author: elsa borneman, +horror

"Being published changes everything" by Stacia . [meta essay, writing] . [N6,5]

05.03.

Don't really agree, although, obviously, I'm not published, I feel many people have found a way of being so and not ditching fandom.

#essay, #non-fiction, *author: female, +writing, 2011, 2011: essay in english, @read in english, book-2011

“Aiesu” (Inter Sex) by ROKUHANA Chiyo

24.07.2011

Case 1 and Case 2 seem pretty much the same to me, even as they deal with different kinds of intersexuality and they have the same conclusion (it is my understanding that some intersex people feel gendered one way or the other and want to be completely that sex as well as gender).

2011, book-2011 ( Read more... )

24.09.11

3000 words. Excellent analysis of the role of women in sci-fi.

Quotes:

Think about culture as a cult: a group of people with a particular worldview.

How do you deprogramme a cult member? You remove them from the influence of those who inculcate the cultish values.

In real life, you can't isolate women from men completely. But in SF ( Read more... )

21.10.2011.

Cute picture book. Sometimes picture books are awesome, Susana Tamaro wrote one called "Papirophobia" about this little boy whose parents wanted him to read everything all the time and who was made upset by books instead till someone sat down with him and showed him that stories were awesome. This one, i think, might just mean to teach ( Read more... )

22.10.2011

I’m not very interested in Pope but I love what Rosslyn has to say about how differently writerly/readerly types see the world. I would have read more of this but it was from the short-term loan collection and I got fed up with renovating it.

Quotes:
ছ  ...Chekhov’s opinion of what the literary life does to one’s humanity, expressed ( Read more... )

28.10.2011

Full of stereotypes, some understanding lines (by man’s oppression cursed) but mostly women are false, fickle and care only for power and pleasure. And that is not a feminist reading, that's what the poem says, I do not care if Pope says the woman he is dedicating the poem to is an exception, he still insulted the whole of the sex.

NY Times to YA Publishing Stop Being So Girly by Aja romano (bookshop)

27.08.11
2000 words. The book industry fails at feminism, basically.

#essay, *author: female, author: bookshop, book-2011, 2011: essay in english, @read in english, +feminism, +bookish, +gender issues

08.02.11 ( Read more... )

27.12.11

This story makes me sad for the author of The Mediator series, it's seriously badly written. Either she's paying someone to ghostwrite for her and she chose really wrong or she's not aging well. Have a look at this line from a highschool jocker a unicorn is torturing by twirling him from his swimming trunks (which don't break or anything. ( Read more... )