Links for the SF/F Community

Rather than blathering on today, I want to direct folks to a number of posts I feel are important to read and be aware of.

1. The Geek’s Guide to Disability, by Annalee Flower Horne. Some very good information about what disability is (and what it isn’t), and the erasure, exclusion, and stereotypes face by many disabled people.
2. Mark Oshiro talks about racism and harassment he faced as Fan Guest of Honor at ConQuesT.
   • Jesi Pershing on why she stepped down from the ConQuesT committee.
   • K. Tempest Bradford on the damned if you do, damned if you don’t trap of reporting harassment, abuse, etc.
   • Aliette de Bodard on Tokenism.
   • Zen Cho on PoC/Queer/Marginalised People in Western SFF Fandom.
   • Dear Regional SF/F Conventions: Enough Already, from Rachel Caine.
   • Current ConQuesT ConChair Keri O’Brien says they are taking this seriously and working to make sure it doesn’t happen again.
   • ETA: A Statement from the KaCSFFS Board of Directors
3. Huge Congratulations to the Nebula Awards Nominees! (I needed something upbeat and celebratory in here.)
4. Submissions are open for UP AND COMING, the 2016 anthology of Campbell-eligible authors.

Mirrored from Jim C. Hines.