February 2011
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The Geopolitics of Where in the World is Carmen... →
Major nostalgia trip courtesy of Alexis Madrigal. Who else played this game on classroom computers?
(Also, instead of Oregon Trail, we had Cross Country Canada, a game where you’re a trucker and you need to deliver things all over the country, which requires learning about the natural resources common to various parts of Canada, and also remembering to pull over to take a nap every once in...
January 2011
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#60 Steam-Powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories — A... →
Contributors to Steam-Powered, which I’ve been squeeing about for months, discuss their ideas about steampunk. In part 2, they talk about their previous experiences with queer fiction and what they felt most challenged by.
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Kameron Hurley’s “God’s War”
Description: Cover of God’s War, picturing a tough-looking, olive-skinned woman with a gun in one hand and a knife at her waist, with a dark-skinned man in a hooded white robe behind her.
Sounds pretty interesting—takes place on a harsh planet policed by female bounty hunters based on the “blood avengers” of Assyria and Babylonia. The setting sounds quite culturally diverse as...
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Margaret Atwood is writing a book on sci-fi?
Kill me now.
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Pruning my dash
and moving feeds to Google Reader instead. If I unfollow you, it’s nothing personal—just an anti-procrastination strategy.
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“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant...”
– Martin Luther King Jr. (via a-effekt)
thirty seeds in my pocket.
(via ahnka)
there are actually sayings of our Prophet (peace be upon him) exhorting Muslims to do this.
The Prophet (sala Allahu ‘Alihi wa Salaam - Peace be upon him) said, “If an individual has an opportunity to plant a tree, even...
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How A Rapper's Brain Works →
guerrillamamamedicine:
Limb’s hip-hop study is still ongoing so he has not yet revealed any data, but in a talk he delivered at TEDx Mid Atlantic in November 2010, he showed some of the brain scans, which showed that the verbal and — more surprisingly — visual areas of the musicians’ brains show activity during improvisation, even when the volunteers had their eyes closed.
my brother is an...
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SHORTER MUBARAK
-rosasparks-:
bill-adama:
#egypt #jan25 #mubarak
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Knowing Coves: Third World Protest as US Spectator... →
zuky:
I’m not a fan of the US cultural habit of turning political turmoil in faraway lands into a gawkworthy spectator sport. I came to this realization in the aftermath of the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square, as it gradually dawned on me that sheltered, largely clueless people who had no stake in…
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Al Jazeera English: Live Stream →
What I’m watching today.
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Don't judge a book by its cover - Malinda Lo →
Malinda Lo takes a look at upcoming YA fantasy novels featuring characters of colour and/or gay characters, and argues that it’s justified to forgo cover art with people of colour, or cover copy that clearly indicates gay content, in the name of Getting Crap Past the Radar. Thoughts?
Via Nnedi Okorafor on Twitter.
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2010 Carl Brandon Society Awards nominations →
Read any good speculative fiction, by a writer of colour and/or dealing with race and ethnicity, published in 2010 (or translated into English in 2010)? Head on over and nominate it for the 2010 CBS Awards; you’ve got till February 28.
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Carl Brandon Society Awards, Arisia 2011
From Aqueduct Press…
Description: L-R: Cecilia Tan, Vandana Singh, Andrea Hairston, and Tananarive Due. (Singh and Due are the ’08 winners.)
…and Victoria Janssen also has photos!
Description: Vandana Singh at the podium with Victor Raymond.
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12th century
avatar: the last airbender
celibacy
colonialism
for the herd!
hapa
liberation theology
octavia butler
orientalism
poverty
science fiction
speculative fiction
star trek
yiddish
What’re yours?
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Space, the next economic frontier for Singapore
itsfullofstars:
There are opportunities for Singapore in the space industry.
This possibility was sounded out yesterday by Mr Sam Tan, Senior Parliamentary Secretary for the Ministry of Trade and Industry and Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts. He was speaking at the Global Space and Technology Convention.
Citing the emergence of Asia as a hub for space-related industries, Mr...
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Log into Tumblr.
Notice your follower count is the same.
-_-
While paging through your dash, notice you have a new follower.
ಠ_ಠ
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Speculative Fiction Sampler Submissions |... →
Via the World SF Blog, the Speculative Fiction Writers of Singapore are putting together a little anthology for the 2011 Singapore Writers Festival, and are looking for short fiction.
Submission Guidelines:
The theme for this anthology is “HYBRID“. Submissions should be constructed around this theme, but the theme is open to individual author’s interpretation. The hybrid in question could be a...
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http://sokkagetsnorespect.com/ →
NEW HOMEPAGE
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X. is watching A:TLA now. She says:
LOLOLOL SOKKA STUCK WITH HIPPIES
(2x02, “The Cave of Two Lovers”. Previously.)
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“One more note on Fool’s War: Zettel makes a conscious effort to avoid equating...”
– Transracial Writing for the Sincere, by Nisi Shawl (via badparsiqueer)
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In light of the recent discussion, I think you...
angergirl:
It’s an article by Tobias Buckell about writing people whose experiences and identities do not mirror your own.
You should also read Nisi Shawl’s Transracial Writing for the Sincere.
They may focus on race specifically, but their arguments apply to what’s been discussed today, as well.
Both of them are incredibly thoughtful and wise, and they blow the “but I don’t know about them!...
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Science fiction. Allied Media Conference. Detroit....
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“::boggle:: Just read a review that was disappointed because I didn’t...”
– N. K. Jemisin on Twitter. Sounds like a Laurell K. Hamilton-esque rewrite is in order.
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Fandrogyne is now a word.
genderbitch:
Noun: nonbinary fanperson who is deeply dedicated to fandom. Related terms: fanboy, fangirl
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Tokenism: Why “Almost” Isn’t Enough - Part II «... →
pyrofennec breaks down the skeevy racial politics in R. A. Salvatore’s fiction and the videogame Dragon Age to illustrate the perils of “cardboard bigotry”.
You want to address racism? Great, lovely. Go ahead. But don’t sugarcoat it by making it about amphibious aliens and orcs.
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"Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach...
fuckyeahstuffilike:
thedisorderly:
rawrmelissaa:
Doesn’t this make it obvious the welfare system isn’t that great of an idea? Why not educate people on how to live and earn and save and budget and spend, etc. rather than hand everything to them?
I don’t even live in the US and I agree. Where I live it’s like welfare… what?
Seriously? Not being in poverty = having everything handed to...
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Nnedi’s Wahala Zone Blog: Ms. Magazine reviews... →
Nisi Shawl reviews Nnedi Okorafor’s upcoming YA novel Akata Witch for Ms..
“This world is bigger than you,” the adults in Sunny Nwazue’s life keep telling her. Sunny, 12-year-old heroine of Okorafor’s latest young adult novel, Akata Witch, lives in a world very much like our own: vital, busy, and in no way limited by national borders. Born in the U.S. of Nigerian...
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con_or_bust: 2011 Auction (and 2010 Final Numbers) →
Signal Boost: Con or Bust is an annual auction run by the Carl Brandon Society, with the proceeds helping fans of colour go to Wiscon (and possibly Arisia, if there’s interest!). Head on over for the details!
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Human Sex Map →
jhameia:
meloukhia:
jhameia:
meloukhia:
wildunicornherd:
jhameia:
rosalarian:
jetbunny:
It’s a map. Of sexuality. And you can put in pushpins to mark where you’ve been. And where you want to go.
Don’t blame me, Megan made me post it.
“Warning: Reaver Country” made me lmao
I don’t know why anyone would make this, but that’s pretty fucking epic.
What does it say about me that...
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Human Sex Map →
jhameia:
rosalarian:
jetbunny:
It’s a map. Of sexuality. And you can put in pushpins to mark where you’ve been. And where you want to go.
Don’t blame me, Megan made me post it.
“Warning: Reaver Country” made me lmao
I don’t know why anyone would make this, but that’s pretty fucking epic.
What does it say about me that I started putting in green pins, realized “This is going to...
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25 Ways to make your website more accessible →
imissedtumblr:
I’ve seen this linked lots of places, most recently by @accessibletwitter.
It’s pretty firmly aimed at Corporations, I think, and Politicians, and schools, and events coordinators and businesses big and small and stuff like that. It brings up issues I’ve never considered. It also brings up TRANSCRIPTS which, as many people know, is a Thing of mine. I am constantly irritated at...
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“Well, I’m Indian, and I’m a scientist, and I’m far from home. The distance gives...”
– Vandana Singh, on why her speculative fiction often deals with India. From a December 2010 Locus interview, via the World SF Blog.
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Stuff Sick People Have to Put Up With: I am... →
stuffsickpeoplehavetoputupwith:
Yes. You read that right. No, that’s not a typo or a mistake.
My medication alone is priced at between $2,089 and $2,563 per month.
I earn between $15,000 and $23,000 per year.
Obviously you can see the problem here. The total out-of-pocket cost of my medication alone exceeds my entire annual income by up to $16,000…
There’s not enough D: in the...
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Zuko and Iroh’s reunion in “Sozin’s Comet”
Who the hell thought it was a good idea to start chopping onions in here?
