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Blood Done Sign My Name
Review by transgressingengineer First off, thanks to ABW for the invite to blog over in her neck of the woods. I am a big fan of her blog and have been looking forward to the opportunity to contribute...
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“I’m a die-hard multiculturalist as a result of my very existence”
It’s a common misconception that writers create characters or situations that have a direct parallel to their lives or the people they know. It’s not always that straightforward, and many times happens...
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“I’ve grown to love complexity”
It’s a common misconception that writers create characters or situations that have a direct parallel to their lives or the people they know. It’s not always that straightforward, and many times happens...
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Just for fun
The ABW in me and the SF fan in me are both applauding. For those of you who don’t know, that text is from the Sandman graphic novels.
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Co-opting pain for profit
I’m usually a political blogger in this space, but something has happened that aggravates me to no end and so I feel the need to share my anger with a wider audience. So, this woman writes a memoir...
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Clarion West Write-A-Thon (again!)
I’m participating in the Clarion West Write-A-Thon again this year, raising money for the workshop and for the Butler Scholarship. I’m in the process of finding sponsors to help me reach my goal of...
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Dealing with bigotry: an SF response
So apropos of one of my earlier posts, we’ve had another Incident in the SF community. In a nutshell, the editor of a prominent fiction magazine sent a rejection letter to a hopeful writer which...
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Inspired
Last year on the anniversary of 9/11 I was listening to NPR’s Morning Edition and their coverage of the memorial stuff going on at the WTC site. I was struck by the structure of the ceremony — there...
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What Is Cultural Appropriation?
A few years ago at WisCon (the feminist SF convention) there was a panel about Cultural Appropriation that sparked an online discussion about the topic that is generally referred to as the Great Debate...
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Verb Noire Announcement (Call for Submissions)
So, as some of you may have noticed I haven’t been around overly much lately. It’s not that I don’t love you. It’s just that I’m in the middle of starting a small press with a friend. Verb Noire is...
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