#tiptree16 and science fiction for transformative change
So long has passed since I last wrote here (I have been finding that so much of the labor of faculty life takes the form of writing that I have…
Read moreSo long has passed since I last wrote here (I have been finding that so much of the labor of faculty life takes the form of writing that I have…
Read moreLast week, I was invited to participate in the Composing Disability conference at George Washington University. Jonathan Hsy organized a wonderful panel titled Digitial Amphibians: Parallel Lives and Media Publics,…
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Read moreI’m incredibly excited to announce that on October 2 and 3 2015, the University of Maryland Women’s Studies Department will host a gathering for scholars and practitioners doing gender, race,…
Read moreDC Queer Studies Conference. 17 April 2015. University of Maryland College Park.
Read moreThis year, along with Lauren Lacey, I have taken over as co-chair of academic programming at WisCon, the feminist science fiction convention for which I have immense and enduring love.…
Read moreCreated to aid citation; only archives my (@alothian)’s tweets as I can’t search back far enough in the timeline for others.
Read moreMy second panel at MLA was a roundtable on “Tumblr Vulnerabilities” with Aren Aizura, Roy Perez, Nick Mitchell, Kara Jesella, and Jeanne Vaccaro. My notes are a little scattered, but…
Read moreI am back, exhausted, from MLA in Chicago. I didn’t manage to tweet the entire convention this year (though social media coverage is so much more diverse than it used…
Read moreHappy New Year! Like so many other academics, I’m starting 2014 with MLA. I’m on two panels this year, at the very beginning and the very end of the conference:…
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