Wiscon

May 31, 2012 14:53

We are back from Wiscon, where we had a good if very tiring weekend.

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naomikritzer May 31 2012, 17:09:52 UTC
I am delighted that Mary Poppins came up on a panel about Baba Yaga.

I did some Baba Yaga reading years ago while writing "Comrade Grandmother" -- it was clear to me from the Russian fairy tales that she was a holdover from pre-Christianized Russia. I'm too hungry right now to type out my favorite story but remind me later if you're interested and I'll do it.

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firecat May 31 2012, 19:32:53 UTC
Interesting comment about "able-bodied". I tend to think of my disabilities-that-affect-my-thoughts-and-feelings as body disabilities (both because I consider them neurotransmitter problems and because I feel them in my body as well as in my emotions and thoughts) so "able-bodied" doesn't seem to me to leave "mental, emotional, or neurological disabilties" out. But my take is probably weird, and I can see the term would look like erasure to many people and cause erasure societally. Do you have a term you like better?

I wish I could have made it to the Baba Yaga panel and the "hard to rip a bodice" panel.

The CART problems made me want to look into learning CART or figuring out some other way of doing live transcription. Although I have a bit of hearing loss myself so I might not be the best person for it.

Have you looked at sockdreams.com and joyofsocks.com?

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mle292 June 1 2012, 00:16:45 UTC
And it got into a Moffat bashing, because of something he said about “Sherlock”. What he said was rash and obviously offended many people."

"Scandal in Bohemia" is pretty clear as to Sherlock Holmes' asexuality. I don't know which comment drew ire, but I thought that the TV adaptation was very reasonable. Did I miss some throwaway line that was horribly inappropriate?

Thanks for the report! It was fun to read.

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