Since many of my readers are interested in science fiction and fantasy, and since we often talk about flaws in the genre and fandom, I thought it would be a good idea to highlight a corner of the field that’s doing an awesome job. If you haven’t heard of the online magazine Strange Horizons, [...]
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Some of you may remember several weeks back when I mentioned a writing marathon I was taking part in to raise money for the Clarion West writing workshop and the Octavia E. Butler scholarship. Well, the write-a-thon ended yesterday and I met all of my goals! 4 new stories and 2 revised stories, [...] One of the things that always crops up in vast discussions of racism, sexism, or prejudice of most kinds is the argument that businesses would never engage in biased, bigoted actions because it would be bad for the profit margin. The recent flare up in the Geico Caveman post sparked my thinking on this, [...] Guest blogger Nora again; howdy! With a short (for me) post! [Guest blogger Nora here. This is an adaptation of something I posted in my personal blog back in June, in reaction to the Supreme Court's recent school desegregation decision. Occurred to me it might be of interest to folks here, too.] This week i’m attending the LaunchPad workshop in Wyoming. I’ll let you know all about ti in detail when I get back. Blogging will be light on my end since there’s no assurance of high speed internet access while we’re there. So I arranged to bring in another guest blogger to enlighten and entertain you [...] We can meet till the cows come home and discuss how to “Fight the Right” without recognizing that in some cases we are the Right. Lance Hill, who directed the Louisiana campaigns against David Duke’s candidacies, told me that Duke’s campaign for Governor in 1990 was active in the gay bars of the French Quarter [...] So, the comments on the Transformers thread are now off. It was getting ridiculous with the trolling and such. And also the having to teach Racism 101, which is time-consuming. Nora actually has a day job, whereas I spend all day looking at the Internet and waiting for it to amuse me. ABW’s Guest Blogger Nora here, with a brief rant. |
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