As part of prepping and researching for my phd candidacy application, I’m playing around with lots of gender numbers in Aussie specfic. This is actually going to be far more intensive and fiddly than I originally thought and I keep coming up with extra ideas and tangents to run off in. Meanwhile, I thought I might throw various plots and snippets ( Read more... )

A quick plug for the latest issue of the fanzine Journey Planet - Issue 13 - which can be downloaded for free here.

I was invited to contribute to a discussion following the decision for Eastercon 2013 to progamme for gender parity and Paul Cornell’s commitment to not being on all male panels. This discussion, in the form of many varied answers and ( Read more... )

It’s a tradition now that stems back to the days of the early 2000s when the Yarn Harlot came up with the idea of starting an ambitious or challenging knitting project at the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games and then pushing yourself to complete said project by the Closing Ceremony. Many many many of these projects required great tenacity and ( Read more... )

Have you seen this yet?: Open Letter to Simon and Schuster CEO

This guy is pretty upset, I think. I tried to read the whole post but its loooong and it goes off on tangents and really, doesn’t really get much to the point. He was paid an advance of $65 000, six weeks after he signed his contract with S&S and apparently that’s not immediate enough ( Read more... )

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I’ve had a ripper of a reading weekend this weekend and just finally finished the last 7 pages of The Female Man which I didn’t manage to do in time for the Spoilerific Russ Podcast.

And so I only just read the closing. And didn’t get to go all “awwwwww” on the podcast. Fave ( Read more... )

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First up on this blustery wintry Sunday morning, some MUSIC!

Gossip - Heavy Cross

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In which we discuss the SF Gateway and some great additions to the Women in SF conversation, Alex eats all the Bujold in one bite, and Alisa’s puppy does ( Read more... )

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From Chapter 5 The Double Standard of Content:

Critics who are too sensible to succumb to some version of She didn’t write it and too decent to resort to the (always rather snide) She did, but she shouldn’t have can often find other ways to dismiss the tuneful yodelling and ( Read more... )

I'm feeling particularly lucky and happy of late to have found so many awesome women to admire, to look up to and have as examples of what I can do and be. Part of the ongoing discussion I've participated in here and on Galactic Suburbia and elsewhere has focussed on the percentage of female representation in various things like anthology table of ( Read more... )

There's been controversy today over Bitch Magazine retracting three books from their list of 100 books list they made that every feminist YA reader should read. One of the books removed was Margo Lanagan's Tender Morsels. Interestingly, those who compiled the list had not actually read all the books on it. That strikes me as a very uncomfortable ( Read more... )