Before I get started I’d like to mention how shit the Chicon 7 online nomination form is. There’s no warning anywhere on the form that if you tab away from the screen – because you want to check the length of a story – when you return everything you’ve entered will have fucking vanished. So, …
Tag Archive: Nnedi Okorafor
Dec 20
Did Lovecraft Win?
After a bout of gastro – thank you Joshua Ethan Mond – I didn’t really have the strength over the weekend to do a follow up post on gender bias issues.* So I thought I’d have a laugh and instead write about Lovecraft and racism and anti-semitism as sparked by this wonderful post by Nnedi …
Dec 14
Gender Bias, Case Number #219067
On the latest episode of Live and Sassy*, Jonathan Strahan, in responding to a question from Alisa Krasnostein, says that a lazy default for any sort of anthology or collection should be a 30% – 70% split. That is 30% female and 70% male. He goes onto emphasise that this is the lazy default and …
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