Signal boost for SF Writers, Comics/Pop Culture Fans, Women Who Rock, Gilded Age Art
November: lots of books, longer work hours (no complaints, I am glad to have 'em), writing, increased tea drinking, insomnia, book reading & reviewing, damp commutes on public transit. Surprised but pleased to win award for making traditional Southern-style lemon "chess" pie for potluck at one of my workplaces. Plan to use part of the Thanksgiving holiday to write to friends & express appreciation of their kindness and who they are.
Quick signal boosts follow this lovely photo of a beautiful, confident young Kenyan woman and her pet (according to the information provided) deer, taken in Mombasa in 1909 by the Underwood and Underwood photo studio (according to the information provided by National Geographic).
No further information about her, sadly. This image has made the rounds of Tumblr multiple times, but each new appearance is welcome.
Some of my young cousins live in the suburban, shopping-mall-and-subdivision- filled Southwest, yet they are unaccustomed to and appear nervous around common American domestic pets such as cats and dogs. I wonder what they would say about this photo. Perhaps they'd decide that one can be self-possessed and elegantly ladylike (an important personal quality in the rather conservative social culture of their town), yet at ease around animals.
Anyway, announcements! Opportunities! An intriguing new academic work on Black Superheroes in Comics!
The World SF blog has announced a Call For Submissions for speculative fiction stories. Please note: unpaid market.
"The World SF blog was set up to increase awareness of the works of speculative fiction being written by people all over the world. The Fiction section of the blog is looking for submissions of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror stories from authors worldwide, especially authors from countries outside the US/UK. We’re also eager to see stories set in those countries, and/or with central characters who originate there. Stories should be in English, and translations are welcome. As we’re unable to pay contributors, we’re particularly looking for reprints, but would also welcome stories that haven’t yet found a home elsewhere.
In short, we need speculative fiction stories by international authors for the blog. Please send some."
Women Who Rock Research Project (WWRRP) supports, develops, and circulates cultural production, conversations and scholarship by cultural producers and faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates across disciplines, both within and outside the University, who examine the politics of gender, race, class, and sexuality generated by popular music. Our goal is to generate dialogue and provide a focal point from which to build and strengthen relationships between local musicians and their communities, and educational institutions. The Women Who Rock Project has been developing the Women Who Rock Digital Oral History Project.
Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes by Adilifu Nama
Super Black places the appearance of black superheroes alongside broad and sweeping cultural trends in American politics and pop culture, which reveals how black superheroes are not disposable pop products, but rather a fascinating racial phenomenon through which futuristic expressions and fantastic visions of black racial identity and symbolic political meaning are presented. Adilifu Nama sees the value-and finds new avenues for exploring racial identity-in black superheroes who are often dismissed as sidekicks, imitators of established white heroes, or are accused of having no role outside of blaxploitation film contexts.
Nama examines seminal black comic book superheroes such as Black Panther, Black Lightning, Storm, Luke Cage, Blade, the Falcon, Nubia, and others, some of whom also appear on the small and large screens, as well as how the imaginary
black superhero has come to life in the image of President Barack Obama. Super Black explores how black superheroes are a
powerful source of racial meaning, narrative, and imagination in American society that express a myriad of racial assumptions, political perspectives, and fantastic (re)imaginings of black identity. The book also demonstrates how these figures overtly represent or implicitly signify social discourse and accepted wisdom concerning notions of racial reciprocity, equality, forgiveness, and ultimately, racial justice.
Adilifu Nama is Associate Professor and Chair of the African American Studies Department at Loyola Marymount University. He is the author of the award-winning Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film, the first book length examination of the topic.http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/namsue.html
Read the full announcement: http://nyarc.org/content/gilded-age-new-york
View the online exhibition: http://gildedage.omeka.net/
This entry was originally posted at http://zizi-west.dreamwidth.org/33909.html. Please comment there using OpenID.
Quick signal boosts follow this lovely photo of a beautiful, confident young Kenyan woman and her pet (according to the information provided) deer, taken in Mombasa in 1909 by the Underwood and Underwood photo studio (according to the information provided by National Geographic).
No further information about her, sadly. This image has made the rounds of Tumblr multiple times, but each new appearance is welcome.
Some of my young cousins live in the suburban, shopping-mall-and-subdivision- filled Southwest, yet they are unaccustomed to and appear nervous around common American domestic pets such as cats and dogs. I wonder what they would say about this photo. Perhaps they'd decide that one can be self-possessed and elegantly ladylike (an important personal quality in the rather conservative social culture of their town), yet at ease around animals.
Anyway, announcements! Opportunities! An intriguing new academic work on Black Superheroes in Comics!
The World SF blog has announced a Call For Submissions for speculative fiction stories. Please note: unpaid market.
"The World SF blog was set up to increase awareness of the works of speculative fiction being written by people all over the world. The Fiction section of the blog is looking for submissions of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror stories from authors worldwide, especially authors from countries outside the US/UK. We’re also eager to see stories set in those countries, and/or with central characters who originate there. Stories should be in English, and translations are welcome. As we’re unable to pay contributors, we’re particularly looking for reprints, but would also welcome stories that haven’t yet found a home elsewhere.
In short, we need speculative fiction stories by international authors for the blog. Please send some."
- Seattle, March 2012: SAVE THE DATE! WOMEN WHO ROCK CONFERENCE AND FILM FESTIVAL, MARCH 2 AND 3, 2012!
Women Who Rock Research Project (WWRRP) supports, develops, and circulates cultural production, conversations and scholarship by cultural producers and faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates across disciplines, both within and outside the University, who examine the politics of gender, race, class, and sexuality generated by popular music. Our goal is to generate dialogue and provide a focal point from which to build and strengthen relationships between local musicians and their communities, and educational institutions. The Women Who Rock Project has been developing the Women Who Rock Digital Oral History Project.
- Already posted this in two L J communities, but here it is again:
Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes by Adilifu Nama
Super Black places the appearance of black superheroes alongside broad and sweeping cultural trends in American politics and pop culture, which reveals how black superheroes are not disposable pop products, but rather a fascinating racial phenomenon through which futuristic expressions and fantastic visions of black racial identity and symbolic political meaning are presented. Adilifu Nama sees the value-and finds new avenues for exploring racial identity-in black superheroes who are often dismissed as sidekicks, imitators of established white heroes, or are accused of having no role outside of blaxploitation film contexts.
Nama examines seminal black comic book superheroes such as Black Panther, Black Lightning, Storm, Luke Cage, Blade, the Falcon, Nubia, and others, some of whom also appear on the small and large screens, as well as how the imaginary
black superhero has come to life in the image of President Barack Obama. Super Black explores how black superheroes are a
powerful source of racial meaning, narrative, and imagination in American society that express a myriad of racial assumptions, political perspectives, and fantastic (re)imaginings of black identity. The book also demonstrates how these figures overtly represent or implicitly signify social discourse and accepted wisdom concerning notions of racial reciprocity, equality, forgiveness, and ultimately, racial justice.
Adilifu Nama is Associate Professor and Chair of the African American Studies Department at Loyola Marymount University. He is the author of the award-winning Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film, the first book length examination of the topic.http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/namsue.html
- Do you love the Art Nouveau period and visual art in the style of Aubrey Beardsley and his contemporaries? Read on:
Read the full announcement: http://nyarc.org/content/gilded-age-new-york
View the online exhibition: http://gildedage.omeka.net/
This entry was originally posted at http://zizi-west.dreamwidth.org/33909.html. Please comment there using OpenID.