WOMEN PLAYED NATIONAL SPORTSBALL AND IT WAS AMAZING. Behind the fold: many allcaps, some heartwarming links.
(Half of) No Award goes to Uluru
Last weekend, I had the extraordinary privilege of spending three days at Uluru. I thought I could write it up in a quick, pithy post not unlike a museum shop review, but this post is almost three thousand words long, and how can you reduce such an amazing and awe-inspiring place to a score out of five?
(Five out of five cork hats, though.)
No Award eats vegan schadenfreude pie
What a gift this month is! We have not one but two racist and/or whitewashed media adaptations being released — Iron Fist and Ghost in the Shell — and they’re both getting terrible press.
What a shame. We shall sip our tea and nibble at a dark, bittersweet pie and try not to disturb others with our cackles of laughter.
AFLW Round 6 and 7
YES, we missed last week’s post, we can’t believe we’re being shamed like this. Outrageous.
Anyway, here are some thoughts on the sportsball.
In Conversation: Joyce Chng
Born in Singapore but a global citizen, Joyce Chng writes mainly science fiction and YA. She likes steampunk and tales of transformation/transfiguration. Her fiction has appeared in Crossed Genres, The Apex Book of World SF II, We See A Different Frontier, Cranky Ladies of History, and Accessing The Future. Her YA science fiction trilogy is published by Singapore publisher, Math Paper Press.
Joyce is heading to Perth for Swancon in April, and Steph recently spoke with her about food, privileging experiences, and haunted makanan.
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pieces of the linkspam
Yes, I am going through the Dance Academy soundtrack, how clever of you to notice!
…I wonder if the movie’s going to get a soundtrack? And if the budget extends to Lorde, the unintentional narrator of Tara Webster’s life?
Submarines of Sand; or, a sand piracy update
Just because Steph is back in Australia doesn’t mean she’s given up on sand piracy. Oh, no. Quite the opposite.
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Guests of Honour of colour for Australian cons
We are not the boss of you, or of your SFF con, but we think that Australian cons can do better in finding diverse creators to be guests of honour. (We do not exclude cons we’ve personally chaired from that.) But it’s not uncommon to try to think of a potential guest, and go completely blank. Names, how do they work?
So here is an incomplete list of non-binary, female, and male local and international people of not-whiteness who you could consider inviting to your con.
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she has linkspam
How is this song seven years old? It still gives me chills like I’m hearing it for the first time.
No Award listens to podcasts
“Uh, Liz?” said Stephanie at 3:30 this afternoon, “did we forget to do a post today?”
We totally did. But that just means it’s time for a post I’ve been planning for a while: podcast recs! Here’s what we listen to…
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