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'White Collar Comes Clean' at the Paley Centre, NY (7 June 2010) - Report

Jun 10, 2010 00:29

Hwæt. So.

I attended the White Collar panel at the Paley Centre in NYC on Monday, 7 June 2010. And it was wonderful!

(There are a small number of comprehensive event reports already posted in various locations, so I'm going to focus on my personal highlights.)

It's going to get prolix in here, guys.

( Telling the Tale; Tightening Up; The Con; The Blow-Off )

actor: marsha thomason, actor: matt bomer, actor: tiffani thiessen, i am a dorkface, actor: tim dekay, tv: carnivàle, tv: white collar, lgbtqi, art museums, i am ridiculous

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redjeweled June 10 2010, 06:56:42 UTC

Junot Díaz! I know, right? I'm pretty amazed at myself that I didn't fall over. As it was, though, my voice went ridiculously shaky. Oh, self.

I told him that I was thrilled that he'd written Oscar Wao as a SF/F and comics nerd, especially considering that American pop culture generally codes nerdiness/geekiness as implicitly white, and asked him to speak about his decision to do so. I also went all yay! over all of the copious and untranslated codeswitching, as that was my experience growing up (though not in Spanish). The audience at the reading/Q&A was majority-white; I could feel the bzuh? coming off most of them after I'd spoken up. Díaz was so great, though. (And we talked a bit more on the subject while he signed my copy of The Brief Wondrous Life! zomg.)

Apparently this is my Unintentional Thing That I Do in Q&As: Guys, guys! Let's talk about race/gender/sexuality! Okay? Okay! Heh.

MARSHA. <3 <3 <3

So, so excited to see Christie!

And I agree with you about certain other parts of the panel (and certain other spoilers) making me a bit wary of S2. I've decided to use this Diana(/Christie) and Marsha Thomason news to keep myself from getting too down about it, though. So even if a few parts of S2 end up being disappointing, at least there will still be more Diana (and El!) content to look forward to. Fingers crossed!

<3

asimaiyat June 10 2010, 07:03:10 UTC

Oh hey you would probably be interested to know this: I actually wrote a paper about queer themes/gender nonconformity in Oscar Wao. It was totally fun. My study partner for the class, who was getting her MA in sociolinguistics, wrote about Creolization and script-flipping, and it was awesome.

I wish I a) got to go to more QAs, and b) chickened out less when it came to asking questions!

redjeweled June 10 2010, 07:19:42 UTC

Both of those papers sound fantastic. Gender nonconformity! Creolisation! The part of me that academia warped forever just flailed a little. No, scratch that. Flailed a lot. Whee!

My trick to asking questions at Q&As is to either bring a friend along or make friends with the person sitting next to me, then to tell that person that I intend to ask a question, and to get that person to nudge me into asking if it looks as though I'm going to duck out. Ah, the joys of peer pressure. I'm not keen on it, in the general case, but it does occasionally come in handy.

Good luck with getting to more Q&A events!

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