Okay, now ....
Aug. 9th, 2006 10:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
d_aulnoyWhile I don't want this journal to go into self-aggrandizing territory ....
... I quite like IROSF, the Internet Review of Science Fiction.
And that is why this quotation from a rundown of WisCon is particularly heartening:
"Total Disclosure: the subtitle of this review "The witch is dead. Long live the witch," was one of Ms. Pilinovsky's quotes. Perhaps the best quote from the con. Maybe even, the best quote evah!"
Ahem. Now, while I don't necessarily agree with/approve of the entire review, which has an interestingly "No, really, guys can feel comfortable there!" feel to it ....*
Awesome.
* I note this only because WisCon is one of the most inclusive environments that I have ever had the pleasure of being involved in, and I find these kinds of retroactive apologetics potentially awkward. After all, I've never heard them out of ICFA, where I once got asked if I'd like to pose naked in a "Women of SF" calender, all expenses paid.**
** I will also say, anectdote aside, it was a very ... respectful ... offer, and that once it was noted that said offer made me uncomfortable, I was promptly assisted in extricating myself from said conversation. ICFA is also one of the most inclusive environments that I have ever had the pleasure of participating in, it just seems to have to do less apologizing strictly because it is not an expressly ism-y kind of a place. Makes one wonder, a bit.
... I quite like IROSF, the Internet Review of Science Fiction.
And that is why this quotation from a rundown of WisCon is particularly heartening:
"Total Disclosure: the subtitle of this review "The witch is dead. Long live the witch," was one of Ms. Pilinovsky's quotes. Perhaps the best quote from the con. Maybe even, the best quote evah!"
Ahem. Now, while I don't necessarily agree with/approve of the entire review, which has an interestingly "No, really, guys can feel comfortable there!" feel to it ....*
Awesome.
* I note this only because WisCon is one of the most inclusive environments that I have ever had the pleasure of being involved in, and I find these kinds of retroactive apologetics potentially awkward. After all, I've never heard them out of ICFA, where I once got asked if I'd like to pose naked in a "Women of SF" calender, all expenses paid.**
** I will also say, anectdote aside, it was a very ... respectful ... offer, and that once it was noted that said offer made me uncomfortable, I was promptly assisted in extricating myself from said conversation. ICFA is also one of the most inclusive environments that I have ever had the pleasure of participating in, it just seems to have to do less apologizing strictly because it is not an expressly ism-y kind of a place. Makes one wonder, a bit.