Link, link is a verb, linkpost is a doing word November 6, 2015
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It’s been a while, but I’m back again with links: links that are important, links that made me think, links that made me smile.
Firstly, and most importantly, the fundraiser for Rochita Loenen-Ruiz is running until 9th November. Please support this if you can. Rochita is a wonderful person, and she and her family are going through a very difficult time.
The rest of my links are going to be grouped under headings, as it’s been some time since I made a post of this nature.
Reading, writing, history, community
Submissions are now open for the People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction anthology.
This is an unbelievably powerful essay on the Salem witch trials. The line that stood out to me was this one:
But what rings most dangerously prophetic about Salem is the ideology that suggests imagining the most helpless and vulnerable in our communities as the most powerful, in a kind of 1984-esque doublethink that provides a rationale for causing as much harm as one wishes to that group.
Aliette de Bodard on ‘History, Erasure and the Stories that Need to be Told’.
Leila Rasheed on diversity in children’s publishing.
Isabel Yap on Filipino monsters.
Tolkien’s annotated map of Middle Earth has been found.
We have a title and a release date for Samantha Shannon’s new Bone Season book: The Song Rising will be published in November, 2016.
Books I want to read
Kate Elliott talks about her new epic fantasy novel, Black Wolves, as part of John Scalzi’s ‘The Big Idea’ series.
Poetry and Short Fiction
‘Reasons I checked out of the diversity discussion du jour’ by M Sereno (content note for colonialism, homophobia and racism).
‘Song of the Body Cartographer’ by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz.
‘Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers’ by Alyssa Wong.
Academia
Rebecca Merkelbach on outlaws, trolls and berserkers.
Libraries
Australiana
No Award on imaginary Australia YA adaptations. (Caveat: I do not share their dislike of the Tomorrow series, although I can understand their perspective, and I also feel ambivalent about adaptations of stories that were/are meaningful to me. I still enjoyed the post.)
Humorous
‘A Day In The Life of a Brooding Romantic Hero’ at The Toast.
I hope you all have fabulous weekends.
I don’t care, I link it August 28, 2015
Posted by dolorosa12 in linkpost.Tags: academia, aliette de bodard, bogi takács, dahlia adler, emma newman, galactic suburbia, hugo awards, kate elliott, kindness not fear, libraries, liz barr, no award, nymeth, representation matters, sophia mcdougall, sumana harihareswara, tell them stories, tricia sullivan
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Slightly flippant title, wildly inaccurate characterisation of my reasons for doing these linkposts. Over here I am gearing up for a much needed long weekend, after one of those weeks that just seem to go on and on and on.
Kate Elliott wrote a great post on ‘Diversity Panels: Where Next’. I would encourage you to read (most of) the links that follow, particularly the panel discussion at The Book Smugglers, which I included in a previous linkpost.
Some (unintentionally Australian-centric) Hugos follow-up posts:
Liz Barr of No Award livetweeted the Hugos.
Galactic Suburbia did a podcast discussing the results.
On a less awesome note (in the sense of this needing to be said at all), Sumana Harihareswara responded to the use of the Hare Krishna chant in the Hugos ceremony in an extraordinarily open-hearted and giving way.
A lot of people were sharing this (old) ‘How to (Effectively) Show Support’ by Dahlia Adler. This part particularly resonated with me:
There is a really big difference between being a person who only rages and a person who both rages and makes a real move for change. And maybe people don’t realize that. Maybe they don’t get how. But I’m tired of seeing raging with no support counterbalance, and I’m tired of people thinking raging is enough without backing it up in a meaningful way. I’m tired of people not realizing how limiting the effects are when all you do is talk about who and what is doing things wrong and not who and what is doing things right.
(Incidentally, I think the first person I saw sharing the post was Bogi Takács, who very effectively shows support with regular roundups of #diversepoems and #diversestories recommendations.)
Aliette de Bodard has set up a review website, designed to host reviews of ‘books we love, with a focus on things by women, people of colour, and other marginalised people’.
Here’s Sophia McDougall doing a podcast with Emma Newman. My poor, Romanitas-loving heart hurt when Sophia talked about one particular scene in Savage City involving the Pantheon. (I know at least one friend is currently reading the series for the first time, so it might be wise to avoid this podcast until you’ve finished – it’s mildly spoilery.)
More on the invisibility of older women authors, this time from Tricia Sullivan.
Ana has gathered some great, library-related links at Things Mean A Lot.
‘Breakthrough in the world’s oldest undeciphered writing’.
These photos of the world’s oldest trees are really amazing.
I hope you all have wonderful weekends.
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