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Originally posted by rose_lemberg at On the pitfalls of “merit”

As I see it, there is currently a split in the fandom. I tentatively think of it as a split between Golden Age fans and Diversity Age fans. This is not about age, as I’ve written before, but about storylines: who gets to write stories, who gets to be a protagonist of stories, who gets to consume ( Read more... )

...maybe makes a post?  Um, hi :)

1) The Bloodchildren anthology is only available till saturday!  It's edited by the wonderful nisi-la, has offerings from all the Butler scholars so far, and offers an amazing diversity of perspectives.  And proceeds go the butler scholarship so! It's all round good.  (Also: it contains several stories that I LOVE!)

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OMG moving creates long days. I am ded. So here's a list! (I still doubt I'll have spoons to reply to comments, but I am reading & appreciating any).

Signal boosty stuff:

- The marvellous Sofia Samatar, of Girl Hours and The Sand Diviner, has a novel coming out from Small Beer Press next year. EXCITEMENT! And! There's an ARC of that novel on ( Read more... )

rose_lemberg's awesome novelette, Held Close in Syllables of Light, is up at Beneath Ceaseless Skies now, for all your queer-YA-clockpunk-in-non-Western-setting needs! Or, okay, some of those needs, cause we can never have enough of this kind of awesome, right ( Read more... )

1) I have had two actual sign-up responses to this post on buying someone a supporting worldcon membership. Meanwhile, both purplefrog26 and kirizal have expressed interest in also buying a supporting membership. So currently we have three memberships and two volunteers so -- if you've been self-rejecting please stop and sign up(If you don't have the time or energy ( Read more... )

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!

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