WisCon 37 panel schedule

[sasha_feather]

My WisCon Schedule is such:

Friday night: Vid Party

Lightning Talks: Science and Technology Sat, 1:00–2:15 pm

Come listen to a potpourri of short talks. The presentation on knitted Daleks not doing it for you? Wait another five minutes and the next talk might be about Panem recipes, or the Takarazuka Revue. Presenters come ready with a 3–10 minute talk of interest to the WisCon community.

A Very Special Disability Panel Sun, 1:00–2:15 pm

You've seen these panelists present on disability, impairment, abl(e)ism, normate bigotry, and similar weighty subjects. That won't happen here. Using a gameshow format, they'll explore vital topics including the silliest, the least effective, the most deadly, the sexiest, and the hardest to clean. The only reference to the social (justice) model of disability will be right here, in this sentence.

A Radical Queer Agenda Sun, 4:00–5:15 pm

Barney Frank once said the gay agenda involved marriage equality, being able to fight in the military, and hate crimes legislation. Many of us radical queers have our reservations about some or all of the planks on that platform. What would your queer agenda involve? Let's talk about some of the neglected issues of queer politics and what we can do to get them more center stage.

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My Lightning Talk topics are:
1. Graphic novels/comics/manga/memoirs written by women. I am in a glut of checking out comics and books from the library, and loving it. I plan to bring examples. The challenge will be limiting myself to 5 minutes.
2. Chickens
I can talk about keeping laying hens in the city or on a farm, why one might like to keep them, their uses and joys, and types of chickens. Also a bit about eggs.

But I would like some cute or catchy titles. Any ideas?

Comments

[holyoutlaw]

No ideas for titles, but for the graphic novel memoirs, you could bring a huge stack to the talk and hold each one up in turn and say "This one is really great, you should read it." ;>

And just today I saw circulating on Fecebook this article about backyard chickens:

http://www.nwedible.com/2013/05/you-absolutely-should-not-get-backyard-chickens.html

I have no idea how this relates to your talk or not. But her point is interesting and well put, I think.

[sasha_feather]

Fecebook hahahahah!

I could indeed do that! I should maybe make a handout of the titles and authors that I feature.

Thanks for the link I shall read!

[wild_irises]

I think the chicken talk should be called: Which Came First? The Chicken and the Egg.

[sasha_feather]

That's cute!

graphic novels: focus?

[bibliofile]

Is it like N Graphic Works to Read Before You Die? Are they all feminists? Memoirs? Or maybe, what's three underlying things about all the books you want to discuss? There's your topic. It might end up being something like GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS, but you see the idea.


(For the chickens, you could just make some happy chicken noises. Chicken words!)

Re: graphic novels: focus?

[jesse_the_k]

How do you make a basic chicken sound in a bunch of languages?

BRAWK.

Re: graphic novels: focus?

[bibliofile]

Buck, buck

/laconic chicken

[eggcrack]

Memoirs! Chickens! I'd love to be around to listen.

[trouble]

"I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome these books are"?

I am terrible at titles. I hope the talks go well!

[sasha_feather]

Thank you!