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Seven Days Response: A Fandom Action
Let there be life! That is, fandom. Gacked from sevenfandomdays
Seven Days Response: a Fandom Action.
The stated Goal of 7 Fandom Days is to create a dialog with Livejournal about fandom. This includes getting LJ to concretely respond to fandom concerns about censorship and types of creative expression what will/won't be construed as "safe" in the future.
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FanLib/Strikethrough fic wags the dog
Yay fandom. No matter what they throw at is, we lash slash right back at them:
And skyshark posted this in just the right place - the comments to Barak Berkowitz's latest update!
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10 Strategies for Effective Action
Henry Spira had been a longtime activist for labor and human rights when he took a class in ethics from Peter Singer in the early 1970s. It had happened that in 1973, a friend left him with a cat. He also had noticed a news article on Peter Singer and his "animal liberation" ideas. Henry began to wonder why we cuddle the one animal, and stick a ( Read more... ) -
Freedom of Speech - LJ vs. the trolls
Taking painless_j's advice, I've wiped my "interests" since that is probably what "Sues" aka Warriors for Innocence blah blah is searching on.
Actually, I tucked them under my bio for the time being, sans any words more dangerous than "critical thinking." Reading seems to be this group's short skill. Well, keeping a grasp on reality too, maybe. The WFI ( Read more... ) -
Chris Williams Responds to Our Questions about FanLib
First, I hafta just add my voice to those saying: What's this we, white man? "Chris Williams Responds to OUR Questions" ... well, yes, but first he avoided responding (civilly; he did real well at the other) to fans politely inviting dialog with the FanLib exec who's all about fandom. It's MIT's Henry Jenkins who CW was willing to talk to, ( Read more... ) -
Great apes environment includes speech, swans, Harry Potter
NPR is reporting from the Great Apes trust in Iowa, where the bonobos have two new neighbors - trumpeter swans. The researchers are planning to invite the apes to name the swans. They'll read them a list of possible names, and see if the bonobos like one of those names - or tell them their own. One possibility is that a staffer has been reading ( Read more... ) -
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I have been loving the snarry_games stories, and sacrificing more than a bit of my precious end-of-semester time to reading and responding to them all. (I think all; must check! As a writer only of boring academic stuff, my role in fanfic is R&R -- &R &R &R.) One of my favorites so far:
The Potter Curse
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I read an interesting post on academics_anon recently as part of a very long exchange about the proper response to abusive or unethical behavior by faculty toward students. Apparently while most over there think other posters are idiots (and recently have even taken to flat out saying so), they are willing to claim that students who "take things through ( Read more... ) -
Fanfic again in the news
The Telegraph has an article on fanfiction: Imagine Harry Potter in a clinch with James Bond: welcome to the world of fan fiction
By Robert Colvile
Not bad at all. The accompanying short glossary of Terms to Know is actually accurate, and like the article, non-sniggeringly written.
Yes, Virginia, there IS a novel in all of us. (grammar quite
