2012-09-30 15:48
Shulamith Firestone, author of The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution, died Tuesday. This is a book that sits on a shelf in my library near Simone de Beavoir's Second Sex and… Read More
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2012-09-30 15:48
Summer officially arrived in the northern hemisphere this week, but Seattle's weather continues to be Spring-like, as though we've settled into mid-May weather for good. Which is all very pl… Read More
2012-09-30 15:48
I'll be attending Readercon this year (which I only very occasionally do), which falls this year on July 13-15. I seem to be scheduled for a lot of programming. I did think, when I saw how m… Read More
2012-09-30 15:48
In the new issue of the American Book Review (33,3 March/April 2012), Jeffrey R. Di Leo's editorial-- "Another One Bites the Dust"-- notes the continuing closure of university presses… Read More
2012-09-30 15:48
First the brag: I recently edited an essay by Ursula K. Le Guin for The Cascadia Subduction Zone, and afterwards she told me I was "not only a good editor but a nice one." (Thank you… Read More
2012-09-30 15:48
Late Wednesday SFSignal published short essays by me and some other writers on viewpoint in genre. Timmi joined an online discussion of what we'd said, adding:"I've--more tim… Read More
2012-09-30 15:48
"Because We Are All So Royal" is my contribution to Aqueduct Press's WisCon Chronicles 2; it's about making crowns at the Carl Brandon Society's annual party. This year CBS co-founder… Read More
2012-09-30 15:48
Sunday I told an old friend my family's multi-generational saga of rape and incest. Most of it, anyway. Into her silence at the end I asked, "Aren't all families like that?""No,"… Read More
2012-09-30 15:48
It occurred to me, particularly after reading Nancy Jane Moore's comment on my Post Readercon report, that for most of us, signing up for and appearing on panels usually entails only a limit… Read More
2012-09-30 15:48
Conversation about all things Aqueductian is this blog's remit, and for the next week or so its founder has left it in my hands, desiring me to "enlighten and entertain"… Read More
2012-09-30 15:48
I had a full, rich Readercon experience this last weekend. The panels I participated in were all lively and interesting (particularly the panel on How To Suppress Women's Writing, which was… Read More
2012-09-30 15:48
Nisi Shawl will be enlightening and keeping you amused while I'm traveling. If I'm slow to respond to email, it may be because I'm under conditions of limited connectivity. (We shall see.) Read More
2012-09-30 15:48
A couple of years ago, trying to track down an old grad school classmate online, I found that he had written a dismaying manifesto about why he’d recently become a hardcore conservativ… Read More
2012-09-30 15:48
In the wake of the mass resignation of Readercon's Board, Readercon's ConCom has issued a statement vis-a-vis the Readercon Board's handling of the sexual harassment issue, overriding the Bo… Read More
2012-09-30 15:48
Aqueduct Press has just released two new e-book editions: Kiini Ibura Salaam's Ancient, Ancient and The Moment of Change: An Anthology of Feminist Speculative Poetry edited by Rose Lemberg… Read More
2012-09-30 15:48
We've just released e-book editions for four volumes in our Conversation Pieces series:Vol. 5: Rosaleen Love's The Traveling Tide ($5.95)Vol. 15: Lesley A. Hall's Naomi Mitchison: A Profile… Read More
2012-09-30 15:48
In my post Sunday, I expressed pessimism about the University of Virginia faculty's likelihood of prevailing against its governing board. I'm delighted to report that I was mistaken. Yesterd… Read More
2012-09-30 15:48
I'm pleased to announce the release of Christopher Barzak's Birds and Birthdays, the thirty-fourth volume in Aqueduct's Conversation Pieces series. Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington, D… Read More
2012-09-30 15:48
Once in a blue moon I wake up from a dream so soaked with a sense of reality that it feels less like a dream I've just had then a memory of something I've recently done. Oddly enough such dr… Read More
2012-09-30 15:48
--The Weird Review has not only posted a review of The Moment of Change, but also reprinted two of its poems. Reviewer Adam Mills characterizes the anthology as "a collection of works so ext… Read More
2012-09-30 15:48
I'm pleased to announce that the Cascadia Subduction Zone has just published a special issue on Joanna Russ. "This issue of The Cascadia Subduction Zone is supplemental, published without re… Read More
2012-09-30 15:48
The Summer issue of The Cascadia Subduction Zone is out!The issue begins with a tribute to poet and theorist Adrienne Rich, who made an enormous contribution to feminism as we know it today… Read More
2012-09-30 15:48
If you have any interest in the fascinating work of Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, and Dorothea Tanning, you'll probably want to catch Christopher Barzak's posts on their work. One of th… Read More
2012-09-30 15:48
I'm pleased to announce that Aqueduct has just released The Receptionist and Other Tales, a new Conversation Pieces volume featuring narrative poetry by Lesley Wheeler. I'll let Ursula Le Gu… Read More
2012-06-20 04:47
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