Oh for fuck's sake.

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I'd always meant to get around to finally making it to a Readercon. But fuck that noise unless the board seriously unfucks this situation

ETA: I've never been higher in a con hierarchy than regular staff, but I'm wondering if it might be useful or at least amusing to try and organize a feminist-friend con scheduled against Readercon next year.

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I haven't been to a con in years, but I'd be so very into a feminist con, or really any con that isn't "more than half full of old white dudes with unexamined privilege".

Rant mode on: the first and always biggest attraction of SF for me has always been its depiction of worlds where people like me might live and not be marginalized, patronized, victimized, or oppressed in that this-is-the-law-of-the-universe way. I got enough of that in the real world; I didn't need it in my fiction, too. Escapism? Yeah, at moments it has been (although I prefer to think of it as a vacation). But those books also presented a different vision that changed the way I see the world, and that changed my life. It's much harder to oppress people who know that it doesn't have to be this way. We can't prevent people from using the genre as the vehicle for their isms, but we can make a space where SF can be what it was meant to be.