West of the Moon

a quick correction.

There’s a particular misconception about the Strange Horizons fiction department that I’ve seen kicking around in a few different places, and I just want to get one clear definitive statement out into the dialogue: we do not have any intentional editorial practices that favor female authors.
Look, we know the numbers as well as our critics [...]

Tags: feminism, strange horizons

absorbing the status quo.

Yesterday evening, at the gym, I was changing back into my clothes when I noticed a five- or six-year-old girl staring at me. My locker is in the downstairs kids-allowed locker room, as opposed to the upstairs grownups-only one, so having kids around is pretty normal. The staring part, I’ll admit, was a [...]

Tags: body image, feminism, teaching

housekeeping.

The semester has started well, if busily. More posting in the next few days, maybe, but in the meantime, some links I want to get out there before my computer loses all of these lovely open browser windows I’ve mentally tagged “of possible use in weblog”. Mostly academic-related, although not entirely.

New Kid on [...]

Tags: academic job market, academics, feminism, history, miscellany

outsourcing the household.

The consequence of all the endings this spring (grad school, dissertation, etc) is that I have a lot of beginnings to put together, and it’s kind of scattershot and distracting work. Preparing course outlines for two classes, preparing lectures for one of those classes, putting together updated job application materials, extracting journal articles from [...]

Tags: feminism

Feminist Fiction is So Five Minutes Ago

I was on two panels at WisCon, and despite my initial mild skepticism, they both went very well. Interesting panelists, engaged audience members, a good balance of who got to talk when, etc. (Both suffered slightly from my own personal need to talk constantly, but I don’t think I crossed the line into [...]

Tags: feminism, wiscon

looking forward.

Every year I have the same experience with WisCon programming. I read through the options, I sign up for things, and then when I find out what panels I’m on, I have a vague befuddled feeling. Something on the lines of “huh, really? I signed up for this?” (This is not [...]

Tags: feminism, wiscon

posthumanism and the body.

Someone (hi!) asked me in email whether my rant about posthumanism and the rejection of the body was in any way similar to Elizabeth Bear’s recent journal posting on the subject, and I told her that I’d try and answer here on the weblog, if I had time. And, well, I had other things [...]

Tags: feminism, posthumanism, technical difficulties

found objects.

Making the rounds of weblogs and webjournals this morning, I kept trying to care about that feminism/happiness study (discussed blandly at Slate and much less blandly by Ms McCarron), but I can’t do it. People with complicated goals are disappointed more often than people with simple goals! Film at eleven! Sorry. [...]

Tags: feminism, yeti lobster