Nicola Griffith

Writer. Queer cripple with a PhD. Seattle & Leeds.

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Month: February 2016

Voting for Hillary Clinton

Voting is a citizen’s superpower. Why not use it?

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Posted on February 26, 2016 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Morning after

We tend to celebrate most things, and we often do it with wine, almost always with splendid food, and every single time with conversation.

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Posted on February 15, 2016 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Four-word love story

In honour of Valentine’s Day: the short version of how meeting Kelley changed everything.

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Posted on February 14, 2016 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Intellectual judgement buried in the syllabus

School, at all levels, is where we learn what’s important. The Open Syllabus Project offers a tool to look at the intellectual judgements embedded in our education.

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Posted on February 9, 2016 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Letters to Tiptree on sale for a dollar so you can read and nominate it for a Hugo Award

Nominations are now open for the Hugo Awards. For Best Related Work I’d like to point you to Letters to Tiptree, edited by Alisa Krasnostein and Alexandra Pierce.

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Posted on February 7, 2016 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Bare Hands

I got this yesterday: video put together by Lou Duffy-Howard, bassist extraordinaire, for “Bare Hands,” a track recorded by Janes Plane, the band I was in, in 1982. I was 21.

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Posted on February 3, 2016 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Films and TV about women don’t win awards: some data

I analysed the last 25 years’ results for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards for Best Picture (Oscar™), and for the Television Academy’s Prime-Time Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series (Emmy™). The data show that tv shows about women never win, and that films about women almost never win. Women’s stories are not taken seriously.

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Posted on February 2, 2016 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Women characters in film and tv should do more than struggle

I’m tired of my screen choices being to watch a rollercoaster ride about men, or an angsty film or show about a woman struggling because she is a woman. I want to see some fabulously exciting screen stories about women who are simply people.

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Posted on February 1, 2016 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

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