I posted a small tribute to Chinua Achebe on my wordpress blog yesterday, but didn't have the energy or time to crosspost it here. The link is here, if you'd like to read it. Yesterday, I found myself wondering how much different my writer's journey would have looked like if I hadn't come across Chinua Achebe's work at a crucial moment in my life. ( Read more... )

It's been a pretty busy and exciting two weeks with lots of things going on. On Saturday, I celebrated International Women's Day together with the Filipina women of Stichting Bayanihan. It was a good day focussing on gender consciousness. Not too high threshold but with enough material to provide good food for thought.

This week, I received news ( Read more... )

My dear friends have alerted me to the fact that the new Movements column is live. Woman's Work and the Woman of Color at Work grew from the interview I had with Jocelyn Paige Kelly. This doesn't appear in the interview I had with Jocelyn, but Jocelyn asked me the question that became the catalyst for this column as I reflected on the question of ( Read more... )

It was wonderful to meet the brilliant and talented crew of Radio Redmond and Roet in Het Eten. I read from Dancing in the Shadow of the Once from the Bloodchildren Anthology. Here’s a link to the reading and the interview. The reading starts a little bit after 18 minutes. The rest of the broadcast is in Dutch. In short, we talk about the Octavia ( Read more... )

Hodan Warsame sent me an invitation to read and take part in Radio Redmond’s broadcast on Tuesday, the 26th of February. I will be reading and doing an interview and hanging out with some amazing people.

Roet in Het Eten’s website is here.

Roet in Het Eten is a collective that offers a unique and critical look at politics, popular culture, media, ( Read more... )

I posted a quick report on the Paul Harland Day over at my website. The link is hereI've been thinking a lot about women's work and how we as women support each other and on the work of women of color and how we support that work. And at the same time as all these things, I've been reading Leny M. Strobel's, A Book of Her Own, Words and Images to ( Read more... )

Goodness. January has turned out to be such an exciting month. It's like I turn around and something exciting happens again. I've been tinkering away at my website, but I still haven't found a way to get this blog somehow simultaneously updated with wordpress...but it may actually not be possible. I think of the website as being like a professional ( Read more... )

My PGS story, Song of the Body Cartographer  made it to the BSFA shortlist. The complete shortlist is  here. Winners will be announced at   Eightsquaredcon  which will be in Bradford, UK.

I will be attending Eightsquaredcon together with good friend and awesome author Aliette de Bodard  whose short story Immersion  is also on the shortlist.

It’s an ( Read more... )

I just finished reading a chapter on Colonial Domesticity from Vicente L. Rafael's White Love and other Events in Filipino History. I had to set aside this book several times while I was reading this chapter because it was just so painful to read. Kind of like peeling away the scab from a wound or rubbing sand into an open sore ( Read more... )

2013 is 6 days old and here I am, updating this sadly neglected journal. 2012 was quite a year, marking the resumption of getting new work out there ( Read more... )