May 2013
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Former NASA Engineer Awards Kiera Wilmot... →
hamburgerjack: esotericalesbians: jalylah: As a show of support, former NASA engineer Homer Hickam awarded Kiera a scholarship to attend the United States Advanced Space Academy (ASA), a branch of the famous Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama! YESSSSSSSSS! I LOVE WHEN THIS SHIT HAS A HAPPY ENDING EXCELLENT
May 18th
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Charges dropped against Florida teen over amateur... →
hamburgerjack: duelswords: lostintrafficlights: The 16-year-old high school student who was arrested after causing a small explosion on school grounds will not be charged with a crime. GOOD. Thank god! They went after her because they thought no one had her back. That’s the problem. They go after Black children like this every damn day.
May 16th
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Pieces available online — Shweta Narayan →
shwetanarayan: I just updated my webpage, which was 2+ years out of date, and that included updating the list of stuff I have available online for free.  So y’know, link for if you’re bored and want something to read :) A couple of them by categories people following me might like - Genderfluid fairy tale - The River’s Children Poetry on illness - Persephone in Grey Yajñāḥ / Offering ...
May 15th
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so i finished madoka in a torrent of ugly crying
it’s really good not just as an anime but as science fiction in general i’m not like a crying at books or movies person really but i was crying for the last 3 episodes straight the witch art is really, really stunning also: naked space hug how are they not lesbians
May 13th
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i started watching madoka
damn, and i thought rizzoli & isles had lesbian subtext
May 6th
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graceishuman's ultimate Kiera Wilmot Storify
tl:dr; A teenage girl in Florida got charged as an adult with a felony after doing a science experiment. Naturally, Twitter had smart things to say. Here’s @graceishuman’s roundup. [View the story “Kiera Wilmot and criminalizing black students” on Storify]
May 1st
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beyondvictoriana: lokisgift: hawkschild: Something I was reminded of: Nobody ever talks about the problematic elements in the source material for Steampunk. I tried to bring it up at a Steampunk-themed convention and got crickets and a room full of stinkeye. Nobody wanted to be reminded that one of the core tropes of the genre was White Male Is A Genius And Builds A Gadget/Robot, Then Goes...
May 1st
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April 2013
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“When is making a short zombie film an act of protest? When the heroes and...”
– Why sci-fi power couple Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due are making a zombie movie. Read the whole thing.
Apr 26th
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Apr 26th
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Apr 26th
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Apr 24th
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Apr 18th
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Apr 17th
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aunty-fascist: Great, people are trying to colonize Mars now. Martian people, if you’re there, kill them as soon as they show up and keep killing them until they stop sending ships.
Apr 17th
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Apr 17th
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“Janelle Monáe is finally ready to follow up her 2010 smash debut, The...”
– (via pitchforkreviews)
Apr 12th
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youngbadmanbrown: I just want to smoke bongs, play mass effect and sleep all day tomorrow i love that m. i. a. song
Apr 10th
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Apr 10th
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in general tho i really like the racial diversity in spartacus. like, rome was really big. see: at the time of spartacus (about 70 bce), the roman republic stretched from spain to the black sea, to the shores of north africa all along the med. so, including people we now would consider “white”, but, like, ethnic white. italian of course, or greek or croatian. like, the olive...
Apr 10th
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ah yes, italians, known for their milky skin, lack of body hair, and english accents
Apr 10th
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Just started watching Spartacus
and thinky thoughts are brewing about the sword-and-sandal genre and the shifting definition of whiteness and how our view of the Roman empire is perceived through the lens of the British empire.
Apr 10th
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Apr 9th
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Apr 8th
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Howling Dogs →
dropouthangoutspaceout: One of the best Twine games I have played. Do you know how to click on hyperlinks? Then play Howling Dogs. Porpentine at her best.  It was the first Twine game I played and possibly no Twine game has lived up to it  except the orgiastically weird ＭＡＳＴＡＢＡ ＳＮＯＯＰＹ, and that’s possibly because I was a huge Peanuts fan as a kid so playing ＭＡＳＴＡＢＡ ＳＮＯＯＰＹ felt like my...
Apr 7th
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WatchWatch
Via @deluxvivens on Twitter.
Apr 7th
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Apr 4th
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Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond... →
oeblegacy: Just a friendly reminder that the deadline to submit your work to the Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond anthology is May 1.  Our goal is to have somewhere between 25 and 30 short stories. We’ve already accepted some works by authors like Nisi Shawl, Eden Robinson, and Junot Diaz. We hope to soon be looking at something by you (and yes, previously published material is...
Apr 3rd
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Call for Submissions: Long Hidden: Speculative... →
jhameia: Submissions open April 1st, but Crossed Genres folks decided to post the guidelines first! Who can submit We welcome stories by authors from all walks of life. We especially encourage submissions from members of marginalized groups within the speculative fiction community, including (but not limited to) people of color; people who are not from or living in the U.S.A.; QUILTBAG and GSM...
Apr 3rd
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Apr 2nd
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Apr 2nd
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so i got a smartphone
and now my greatest fear is that i will die and someone will find my phone and look at the sketchbook app and it will be nothing but horribly distorted escher girls fan art
Apr 2nd
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Apr 2nd
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Apr 2nd
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jhameia: wildunicornherd: ktempest: knitmeapony: Today in what in the unacceptable fuck: this is Locus Magazine’s idea of an April Fools Day joke.  The article was gone in under an hour, though it was here. No. Just. No.   Do I even have to explain how wrong this is? Transcript below the cut. Read More Reblogging this version as it contains a transcript. context: the author is...
Apr 2nd
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Apr 1st
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i caught up on doctor who and now i am thinking of...
i know about the manflesh, but i want to know, is there womanflesh also?
Apr 1st
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alexandraerin: dea-matrona: NON-WHITES WILL NEVER BE EUROPEAN THEY WILL NEVER BE (and read this very slowly so you understand) BRITISH IRISH FRENCH GERMAN NORWEGIAN SWEDISH DANISH FINNISH SWISS SPANISH PORTUGESE ITALIAN GREEK etc YOU WILL NEVER BE A TRUE REPRESENTATIVE OF EVERY COUNTRY IN EUROPE WITH A TRADITIONAL WHITE CULTURE Please get over it. Europe is not yours, we do...
Apr 1st
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Apr 1st
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anyone have caps of locus mag's super islamophobic...
just wondering (see ktempest’s feed for context)
Apr 1st
March 2013
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while making pasta
i thought of several different ideas for companions that are more interesting than the last several ones on doctor who women with agency! and lives that are interesting in their own right! and not from 21st century england! you can only take so many pretty young ingenues before you just snap
Mar 31st
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Mar 29th
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Mar 29th
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Mar 28th
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Anil Dash » Ten Tips Guaranteed to Improve Your... →
Having had the good fortune to work with a broad range of entrepreneurs and get a front-row seat to the foundations of their success, I thought it’d be good to share 10 key tips that I’ve found work 100% of the time to increase your odds of startup success. Try to execute on as many of these as you can! Be raised with access to clean drinking water and sanitation. (Every tech...
Mar 28th
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a friend: don’t you want to rescue feminism from racism? me: no
Mar 28th
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Mar 27th
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Mar 27th
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so the allied media conference folks found a box of kittens on their doorstep. naturally, they’re livestreaming it.
Mar 27th
kynodontas: wildunicornherd: kynodontas: wildunicornherd: kynodontas: wildunicornherd: omfgggggggggggggggg~ based on the title i thought it might have something to do with redemption in indigo but it’s straight up sci fi?!?! aw yeah taking a brief break from sf/f to start on zadie smith’s stuff but this is so tempting… e__e “taking a brief break from sf/f” that was your first...
Mar 27th
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