Neither Dying Nor Being Cured
This is the essay version of the Ethel Louise Armstrong Lecture I gave last year at Ohio State University. It was first…
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Why you should never believe your own publicity
Turning up at number 6 of Famous Essayist from England is a prime example of why a writer should never believe her own publicity.
Read moreThe story of my PhD, Part 3: Choice
This is Part Three of the five-part story of my doctorate—the who, why, when, and how of it—based on questions from readers on this blog, Facebook, and Twitter.
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The story of my PhD, Part 1: Opportunity
This is Part One of the five-part story of my doctorate—the who, why, when, and how of it—based on questions from readers on this blog, Facebook, and Twitter.
Read moreGuidelines for Non-Disabled Writers
Just republishing this for future reference. First published in Literary Hub, August 23, 2016 Recently I have read several articles about disabled…
Read moreLiving Fiction, Storybook Lives
As individuals and societies we are shaped by story: our culture and sense of self literally cannot exist without it because we only know who and what we are when we can tell a story about ourselves. We learn how to tell our story by listening to the tales that are out there and picking through them, choosing some details and discarding others.
Read moreDisability: Art, Scholarship, and Activism
On Friday May 13 I gave a presentation at the University of Washington’s Pacific & Western Disability Symposium. The theme of this…
Read moreLetters 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.
Read moreHappy Birthday, Dr Alice James Raccoona Tiptree Bradley Sheldon, Jr
Out today in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alice Sheldon (aka James Tiptree, Jr), Letters to Tiptree, edited by Alisa Krasnostein and Alexandra Pierce. It includes an essay from me.
Read moreEssay section of the site
A rotating list of carefully curated pieces? An encyclopaedic list? Most-popular old posts as essays (things like Who Owns SF? and Lame is So Gay and my Writer’s Manifesto)? Or some option I haven’t thought of? Tell me what you think.
Read moreFinal Hild links roundup
For those who are counting, this is links roundup #20. I’ve put all twenty in one place. I’m also assembling humongous roundups…
Read moreHild roundup #3
Hold onto your hats, this one is going to be long. (If you’re a glutton for punishment feel free to check out…
Read moreThe indefatigable weirdness of ’50s American science fiction
“These novels testify to the extraordinary range, profound intelligence, and indefatigable weirdness of ’50s American science fiction. A must-have for anyone interested…
Read more#FeministSF twitter interview Sunday April 29 11 am/2 pm
Tomorrow at 2 pm EST/11 am PST I’ll be doing a Twitter interview with @traciewelser using the hashtag #FeministSF. These things usually…
Read moreReading distinguishes us from other animals
At the end of December the Guardian ran a story about reading and empathy: Psychologists from Washington University used brain scans to…
Read moreNovels: the expression of the human condition
Campbell’s Soup I (1968), low-res snapshot so it can (hopefully) be considered Fair Use, via Wikipedia A couple of weeks ago I…
Read moreThe Literature Prize: snobbery or a good thing?
Announced yesterday by a group of publishers and agents: the Literature Prize, designed to counteract the dumbing down (I’m paraphrasing) of the…
Read moreHow ammonites changed the world
Interesting paper in Science: The Role of Ammonites in the Mesozoic Marine Food Web Revealed by Jaw Preservation, subtitled: “How they revolutionized…
Read moreBooks are journeys
I love books. I love my Kindle–I’ve read more novels per month in the last two years than I did before I…
Read moreSex, booze, joy, and the modern novel
Perhaps because it’s summer, critics are talking about joys of the body as it relates to writers and writing. They sound rather…
Read moreEssays? Like them or not?
Zadie Smith talks about the essay in the Guardian: For Samuel Johnson in 1755 it is: “A loose sally of the mind;…
Read morethe next future
Last night I started watching The Matrix for the umpth time, and was struck by the colours of its future: grey, black,…
Read moredoing it for pleasure
After a reader (thanks, Jennifer) reminded me, in a comment to “advice for girls,” that reading is pretty damn important I was…
Read moreWar Machine, Time Machine
This summer, Liverpool University Press published Queer Universes: Sexualities and Science Fiction, edited by Wendy Gay Pearson, Veronica Hollinger and Joan Gordon….
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Queer Universes (ed. Pearson, Hollinger, Gordon, Liverpool University Press) is finally available. Product Description:Disputes over the meaning and practice of sexuality have…
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