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This is from the SMOF Con program (publicly available here: http://smofcon31.org/index.php?action=program.main) (Click on "Full Program" for the PDF.)



Song of the South Ate My Life
Manitoba
Meg Frank (m), Colin Harris
Social media may be a great boon to communication - and thus to fandom. But the rapidity at which
information spreads can carry the seeds of potential capacity, causing rancorous explosions and hurt feelings (to name a few possible outcomes). Twitterstorms are one such phenomenon - and are, in fact, an
increasingly common problem faced by the fannish community. Two fans braved the storm before last
year’s Worldcon, and helped get such a crisis under control: hear their story.


(Bolding mine)
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Holy shit!

Today there was an "April Fool's" post at Locus that was supposedly making fun of WisCon. You can read about it various places. Trigger warning for Islamophobia and general awfulness.

[personal profile] emceeaich: Not Funny, Locus (includes screencap)

Locus Apologies and Takes it down: An apology

The author of the post shows no remorse at all, however, and gripes on his own personal blog about free speech: WisCon's Fail Feminist Fandom Brigrade Gets My Locus Post taken Down (includes transcript)

Also lots of discussion on Twitter.

In case you're wondering who "Belle Gunness" is, she was a serial killer.
Trigger warning for, serial killing? Wiki article about Belle Gunness. Thanks to [personal profile] kalmn for figuring that one out.
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The Madison Times:
School board "race" highlights the disconnect between the two Madisons by A. David Dahmer.

I was pretty baffled when the winner of the primary dropped out of the race the day after winning because she suddenly found out that her husband had been accepted to grad school in California (and not in town). That seemed shady to me-- perhaps just flaky, but as this article points out, it's also very privileged behavior and served to shut out the one woman of color running for the school board in a district where there is a huge achievement gap.

That, and telling lies about her, of course. WTF.
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Lana Wachowski says part of her hope with "Cloud Atlas" is that it will challenge transphobia:

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/10/29/lana-wachowski-i-made-cloud-atlas-in-order-to-challenge-transphobia/

(Title is somewhat misleading). Also she's been doing some great work speaking about her transition, etc.

However, Cloud Atlas uses yellow face. Egregiously.

Racebending.com: The Cloud Atlas Conversation

Intersectionality is so important. Ms. Wachowski is attempting to fight one kind of oppression, but is further oppressing Asian people, and completely ignoring the fact that trans Asian people exist. How are they supposed to react to this movie?

Zuko, I am disappoint.
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The Science of Racism: Radiolab's Treatment of Hmong Experience
Submitted by Kao Kalia Yang on October 22, 2012 - 10:17pm

Link: http://hyphenmagazine.com/blog/archive/2012/10/science-racism-radiolabs-treatment-hmong-experience

Full text under the cut, since the link is not working for some folks (assumed high server load)
Content notices: Racism. Discussion of miscarriage.

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ETA: Unlocking this post on DW.

Stardate December 2009
Location National Geographic, page 120, article: "Love is in the Air": Birds do it, bees do it, even pollinating plants do it.
Link to article (The photos are good)

By Rob Dunn
Photograph by Martin Oeggerli

As humans we take many things for granted. One is surely the ability to walk, crawl, or even, after a little too much to drink, drag ourselves over to a lovely member of the opposite sex.

OH RLLY?!!!

Plants have no such luxury. For much of the long history of green life on land, plants had to be near each other, touching almost, to mate.

THEY HAVE TO BE TOUCHING IN ORDER TO MATE.

Moss lets its pale sperm into rainwater to float to nearby partners, as did other early plants, but this method requires moisture. Vegetation could only survive in those damp corners where beads of water connected, dependably, a male to a female.

Drops of water have sex? WOW!

Most of the Earth was brown.

Most of the Earth: still brown. Actually blue.

Then one day more than 375 million years ago, it happened. One lineage of plants evolved pollen grains and seeds, and from then on nothing was the same. Let's not mince words. Pollen is plant sperm—two individuals per grain—surrounded by a single, often golden, wall that offers both protection and chariot.

Because pollen = sperm (sexy, titillating sperm!) = maleness = protection and transportation via horse and chariot?

OK, this is so bad, I have to stop reading now.

Plants, by the way, reproduce in a number of ways, including asexually, like when you take a cutting or a plantlet and repot it. Many plants are hermaphroditic: they have male and female parts on the same plant. OOOOOOH SEXY.
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It's been called to my attention that certain language I've been using related to eating is disturbing and possibly triggering. I will stop using it. I apologize. In addition, it's always de-friending amnesty day at this journal; and if you want to be taken off filters amnesty applies there as well.

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