Daily Archives: November 14, 2012
Two Strangely Relevant Links
Posted on November 14, 2012
One: This very interesting piece in Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, called “Queer Female of Color: The Highest Difficulty Setting There Is? Gaming Rhetoric as Gender Capital,” which discusses in some detail my “Straight White Male” piece from earlier in the year, and the fact that it got some traction — and why […]
Today is a Good Day to Subscribe to Clarkesworld Magazine
Posted on November 14, 2012 65 Comments
Many Whatever readers are fans of science fiction and fantasy, which means they have probably heard of Clarkesworld Magazine, the Hugo-winning science fiction magazine, which has published some genuinely excellent fiction in its run. Clarkesworld is owned and operated by Neil Clarke, who I can vouch for from personal knowledge as being one of the […]
When Gut-Boys Attack
Posted on November 14, 2012 692 Comments
It turns out that the author of the above screed, comic book artist Tony Harris, was born the same year I was. I can’t actually conceive of a forty three year old man, particularly one who has presumably functioned reasonably well in the real world, with other actual human beings, writing a paragraph like that one […]
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