The SF/F and Related Blogs You Read
I follow a bunch of genre-related blogs, but I always have this feeling that I’m missing something. And so this post is about that. What are your favorite SF/F and related blogs? I want to know. Leave a comment with links and maybe I’ll find something new! That’s it. Nothing more exciting than that!
Becoming Pretentious Over Time — Cue Pipes, Long Diatribes About Literature, and Writing
Fact One: Apparently button-up shirts, nice ties, nice sweaters, and nice slacks are my new thing. They’re so much “my new thing” that I’m wearing them even though I have no intention of leaving the house (I’m currently sitting at a table on a houseboat that overlooks the Columbia). Hello! I’m a houseboat on the […]
N-Words and B-Words: Can people reclaim these words?
(Disclaimer: If you are easily offended by the proper spelling of the words hinted at in my title, then do not read beyond this point.) As a postcolonial scholar, I’ve become familiar with what Homi Bhabha calls the “ambiguity of colonial discourse.” In short, Bhabha suggests that colonialism attempts to recreate indigenous minds/bodies in the […]
Dear @Ustream: You Are Forgiven
You’ll know from my previous post and Twitter and basically everywhere else that Ustream shut the Hugo Awards live stream down Neil Gaiman’s acceptance speech. The reasoning at the time was “copyright infringement.” Now we know what happened from Ustream’s end (granted, I’m late to the party, but I feel obligated to say something after smashing […]
Hugo Awards Stream Shut Down / Worldcon Banned (or, Dear #Ustream: Fuck you, Signed Fandom)
If you haven’t heard already, Ustream, the serviced used by Worldcon to live stream the Hugo Awards ceremony, pulled the stream and banned Worldcon from its site for terms of service violation. What violation would that be? Apparently an awards ceremony is not allowed to play short clips (a la fair use policy) from nominees […]
English Majors Study Creative Writing (or, How to Look Like an Idiot)
Apparently some people read “getting a PhD in English” as “getting a PhD in creative writing.” I find this hilarious because it demonstrates a profound ignorance of what studying English entails. Things I don’t do as a PhD student in English (that is as a necessary part of getting my degree):–Meet up for weekly book […]