wiscon 2011 recap

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This year was likely my best WisCon experience to date. Not to say that there weren’t any low points. But in all, this WisCon went very well for me. I volunteered to be on up to four panels this year, …

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wiscon schedule

(Note these aren’t the actual titles of the panels I’ll be attending, just my own shorthand for them.) Friday 1:00 The Gathering 3:00 Volunteering in the green room 4:00 Join the Mod Squad (attending) 5:30 WisCon Dinner 7:30 Opening Ceremonies …

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wiscon 35

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Despite the brouhaha over Elizabeth Moon, I’ll still be going to WisCon this year. I have some mixed feelings about it for a couple of reasons, but I’m still going. Why? Maybe because I’m lazy. It’s twenty minutes from home, …

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be the change

I am grumpy today. With a capital G-R-U-M-P-Y. It is my day off from my dayjob, and I am home sick, coughing and wheezing, with an I-kid-you-not six-inch stack of reports I brought home from the dayjob because I can’t …

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oh wiscon

I have been gathering links today about the latest news in the WisCon Moon debacle. Elizabeth Moon, one of next year’s WisCon Guests of Honor, said some un-PC things about immigrants and Muslims. Some people were disturbed and offended, and …

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wiscon & moon & muslims, oh my

September 11, 2010. Elizabeth Moon, the Guest of Honor at the coming Wiscon, posted her thoughts about citizenship, immigrants, and the Burlington Coat Factory Islamic Community Center (more commonly referred to as the Ground Zero Mosque). I first heard about …

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wiscon 2010

  I’ve been going to WisCon every year since 2005. What? You haven’t heard of WisCon? It’s the world’s leading feminist science fiction convention. And it’s right here in Madison, just a few minutes from home.

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