October 2011
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September 2011
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Subverting the canon in feminist fan fiction:... →
by Leow Hui Min Annabeth
Ergo, WOW! Me, in print. How shiny! 好 shiny! ;)
Although there is enormous merit to the long-standing scholarship on the feminist implications of woman-oriented participation of fan culture, analyses of specific fan works also remain crucial in aiding understanding of individual fan responses to the interaction of popular fandom with kyriarchal assumptions and...
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Kandila: A Calligraphy Poembook Project
The wonderful, amazingly talented Mia is taking pre-orders for her handcrafted chapbook of calligraphed poetry, Kandila. Prices start at USD 25 and pre-ordering ends on 30 September. In her words…
Kandila will be a little book rendered completely, from the title page to the very last leaf, in calligraphy. It will feature three of my (rather long!) bilingual love poems to my country, the...
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August 2011
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Cho Chang
crossedwires:
Does Cho Chang’s name throw anyone else off? Because it sounds to me like ‘uncouth’ in Hokkien.
I believe her name was given as 秋张 in the Chinese versions of the book, which is still odd because her surname （张） should occur first.
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“These are the things you sing of: the embryos of mice, stillborn, albinos that...”
– From Yoon Ha Lee’s aforelinked story “Conservation of Shadows”. It kind of reminds me of something else, too—Portal. Chell and GLaDOS as Inanna and Ereshkigal? Does that work? (via wildunicornherd)
July 2011
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Call for Submissions: Gears and Levers (steampunk... →
jhameia:
I met the editor at GearCon and she made it a point to tell me that she’s specifically looking for non-Victoriana steampunk.
Which can go either the way of Fail in which we have a ton of writers exoticizing non-white settings for Orientalist entertainment (I don’t care that they don’t mean to; you know it’s gonna happen and if we have to fall back on the intent excuse I will stomp on...
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Thundercats!
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mybloodhowls:
WATCHING THE SERIES PREMIERE OF THE THUNDERCATS REBOOT.
UPDATES TO FOLLOW.
What, they rebooted Thundercats? MY CHILDHOOD HAS BEEN REBOOTED? ;_;
It’s actually pretty awesome, truth be told.
I was worried because I’m not crazy about the art style (and still am not crazy about how they re-did Cheetara, I mean,...
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Support a Writer, Poet & Zinester - Sumayyah...
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creativeradicallove:
If you don’t know my dear friend and heart-sister Sumayyah’s writing, you need to. You can check out her site and read her poetry and fiction.
Reading Sumayyah’s fantastical tales is what turned me on to sci-fi, and it was thru her that I was also introduced to Octavia Butler and Nnedi Okorafor. I am currently editing Sumayyah’s first novel, and I guarantee you,...
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Signal-boost for Charlie's art!
whatfreshhellisthis:
I’d like to apologise in advance for smothering you with please, please, please commission me (if you can & want to) info.
But um.
Now that I’m 18 and not in full-time education my dad no longer gets child benefit from my mum, or from the government.
And um, for a household that last year only managed £10,000 that’s quite a large blow.
And even better, I’m kind of in...
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Woah, there's a Dalek on the sign!
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Okay, so its actually a shower, but to me its a Dalek.
Picture: A washroom sign. Two stick figures, a figure in a wheelchair, and a shower symbol that looks like a Dalek.
CANNOT UNSEE.
There’s a wocket in my pocket, and a Dalek… in the washroom!
I’d love to meet a Dalek in the washroom. As long as there were steps between us.
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Can we talk about how Korra not only is an...
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Seriously, who was the last female lead, not Badass Woman Sidekick TM, that you saw with visible muscles and a tomboyish/utilitarian character design? Maybe I’ve been watching too many magical girl shows, but I keep getting excited because Korra not only represents women of color but she also gives hope to any kids watching who don’t feel comfortable with the gender binary.
I...
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“I miss Dwayne every day. It’s still inconceivable that he isn’t around to...”
– Matt Wayne
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#nowreading
Dirlik, Arif. 1996. Chinese History and the Question of Orientalism. History and Theory 35, no. 4:96-118. Harris, Susan Cannon. 2003. Pathological Possibilities: Contagion and Empire in Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes Stories. Victorian Literature and Culture: 447-466. Huh, Jinny. 2003. Whispers of Norbury: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Modernist Crisis of Racial (Un)Detection. Modern Fiction...
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