Signal boost for Rachel Swirsky's Making Lemons into Jokes campaign!
Originally posted by james_nicoll at Signal boost for Rachel Swirsky's Making Lemons into Jokes campaign!
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"Humor can turn anything ridiculous. That’s part of its healing power. When that’s the aim, being mean-spirited or nasty defeats the point. I can’t promise I won’t make any metafictional jokes, but I’m not going to focus on it. The rare times I do, it will be silly.
That’s the plan! But I didn’t include the why of it all.
Short version: A bigot is using the Hugo Awards to harass me and LGBTQ people, so fuck him. Let’s follow the Scalzi strategy-and raise money for something he hates."
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Please repost.
"Humor can turn anything ridiculous. That’s part of its healing power. When that’s the aim, being mean-spirited or nasty defeats the point. I can’t promise I won’t make any metafictional jokes, but I’m not going to focus on it. The rare times I do, it will be silly.
That’s the plan! But I didn’t include the why of it all.
Short version: A bigot is using the Hugo Awards to harass me and LGBTQ people, so fuck him. Let’s follow the Scalzi strategy-and raise money for something he hates."
More details here
Also posted at Dreamwidth, where there are
comment(s); comment here or there.