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Cat eggs: another bad idea
This weekend one of my sister’s chickens laid an egg for the first time. I can’t wait till I get to find and eat an actual home-made egg. Everyone was super excited about this egg. My brother-in-law...
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Honoring Joanna Russ
Joanna Russ died today. I’m very sad. I didn’t know her personally but she was one of my feminist heroes, and I wrote back and forth with her a few times about her work. Now I wish I’d said more,...
View ArticleGuest post from Ben Rosenbaum
Benjamin Rosenbaum is a science fiction writer. I know him (in person!) from the world’s largest feminst science fiction convention, WisCon. Here’s a guest post from Ben about the Amina hoax, identity,...
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Unruly Islands will blow your mind, so buy it
If you don’t really like poetry because it usually sucks and is embarrassing, buy my latest book of poems, Unruly Islands. Buy some extra copies for your friends and one for your giant robot. It goes...
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Imagining radical democracy, practicing feminist anarchy
At WisCon a couple of weeks ago I was on a panel called Imagining Radical Democracy with Alexis Lothian, L. Timmel Duchamp, and Andrea Hairston. We talked about political change, culture, and science...
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Book roundup: Bitterblue, Simoqin, Three Felonies a Day
Quick notes on some books I’ve read recently. I have laryngitis (still!!!) and it seems to be worsening rather than getting better. So I will write rather than talk. Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore,...
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Sub-ether message
Quote of the day, because it’s silly and perfect! Give it a dramatic reading if you dare. The photophonic visiscreen before Ranger brightened with the image of a stocky reptilian creature that looked...
View ArticleWarcross is awesome!!!
Warcross continues to deliver the goods! I love this book. The gamer/hacker heroine in her ripped up jeans and flannel shirt has now gone through the first draft for the Great Games or whatever they...
View ArticleIn which I plot my movie-going outfit
Behold the glory that is the preview for the movie Galaxy Lords! Ridiculous props and outfits are my favorite. Is that guy riding a little speeder made out of a treadmill and a leafblower covered with...
View ArticleExcerpt from A House by the Sea
Reading Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction and loving it. Some great stories and essays – I have more to say in detail but for now a quick note and an excerpt from P.H. Lee’s “A House by the Sea”,...
View ArticleHeading over to CripTech
Heading over to the CripTech symposium now. Its full title is: CripTech: Disability and Technology in Japan and the United States – an International Symposium. I spent the morning yesterday with some...
View ArticleEarly astronomer commitment schemes
Today I learned that early astronomers were hella clever. I was looking up good colony sites or just interesting topographic features for each planet or other solar body that I think would make a good...
View ArticleNot really a review but I loved Captain Marvel!
Definitely see it if you love watching women be all super badass and determined and blow stuff up and also if you love cats. It was adorable! It was fun! Stuff blew up! There were more than 2 women who...
View ArticleA Few Hours in a Far-Off Age
I’m enjoying Henrietta Dugdale‘s utopian SF, A Few Hours in a Far-Off Age. Millions of years in the future, we and the disembodied narrator follow along as highly evolved humans discourse on education...
View ArticleInadequate notes on recent reading
Am I ready to read The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley? Do I want a severe mindfuck experience? YES ABSOLUTELY. *** hours later *** Holy shit! This is a really good book. Very intense! Makes me think...
View ArticleContinuing the In Death series
From “Imitation in Death”, which I find hard going because it is particularly disturbing as the murderer is imitating the styles of various serial killers. This was oddly comforting, amazingly meta, to...
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