1)rose_lemberg ponders appropriation in the context of her own work, and welcomes discussion (to the extent that her spoons allow).  Not a 101 discussion; she's asking some of the really hard questions, IMO.

2) Via nisi_la - The Carl Brandon Society got a challenge grant up to $2000 from SF3! This means anything we donate this month or next will be doubled!

Nisi sez ( Read more... )

about what the Octavia E. Butler Scholarship means to me, while you could still get tickets.

But it's ending tomorrow, and I haven't had word brain at all.

So here's the short form: it meant everythingI don't mean Yay Clarion Yay alone here. Yes I deeply value my Clarion a-ha moments, but realistically speaking, I might have been willing to ( Read more... )

This may be the last time I'm on lj this week -- too many things, too few spoons -- so it's a double-barrel signal boost.

Minimalism, now with deadlines!

1) submit to Stone Telling! Open period ends Nov 21.

2) Want to help send POC to Clarions? Enter the CBS ereader drawing for just a dollar-- or don't! If you don't want an ereader, get ( Read more... )

So on the assumption that you guys are entering (or thinking about entering) the CBS prize drawing...

My story Sultana Lena's Gift, from April's RoF, is in it, and I was thinking -- if anyone here enters & doesn't win, I could send you the story* as a consolation prize ( Read more... )

I am back.  With signal boosts!

1) My flash fic piece, Kohl-lined, is live! In Issue 20 of Three-lobed Burning Eye :)

It's... um, a bit of a push at boundaries, for me *nervous grin*

2) And!  Here's the official press release for the CBS prize drawing (where you can win an ereader with stories on it!):

The Carl Brandon Society announces a prize ( Read more... )

Managing middling-low spoons today, so trying not to get caught up in lj; but wanted to note that:

0) Starting on a serious note: if you're a US citizen, please vote. And please remember that the Republicans are only helping the very-privileged.

1) Apex's Arab/Muslim issue is out and it looks fantastic! Who can resist stories by tithenai and saladinahmed?

2) yuki_onna's ( Read more... )

With awesome stories by nisi_la and nojojojo and saladinahmed and lots of other folks already on it?

including one by me?

The Carl Brandon Society is holding a prize drawing of five eReaders starting November 1st and ending November 22nd, 2010. The funds raised will benefit the Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship, a fund that sends two emerging writers of color to the ( Read more... )

The CBS, as the official group for the visibility of people of color in the Speculative Fiction community, and the group administering the Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship has posted an open letter to the SF community.

The letter's short and sweet. It is not addressed to Harlan Ellison, as ktempest accepted his apology, but rather to all of us; ( Read more... )