Queerness, fantasy and Marxist materiality
Yesterday I attended a talk on “Queer Studies and the Crisis of Capitalism,” with Jordana Rosenberg, Amy Villarejo, and Meg Wesling. Even given my propensity to take copious notes, I…
Read moreWisCon, fanacademia and internet drama
Last weekend I attended WisCon, a feminist science fiction convention with an academic track. Immediately after the convention I flew to London (after first flying back to LA, and yes,…
Read morePaper from Console-ing Passions
I just got back from Console-ing Passions in Santa Barbara, a wonderfully inspiring and exciting conference. This is the paper I presented. It connects a lot to the questions I…
Read moreold percolations on affect and fandom
I haven’t been the best of bloggers, have I? It’s so long since I posted, WordPress has changed its interface. The conference went very well, anyway. Tavia Nyong’o gave a…
Read moreCylon futures
Science fiction in book form was and is my first and most enduring fannish love. It gave me ways to imagine worlds and people differently, models for gender and sexuality…
Read morePirate utopianism (DIY video)
SHUT UP AND MAKE SOMETHING, says the back of my tight-fitting volunteer T-shirt. I’m not too good at either, so I’ll compromise by making a blog entry. Whether that counts…
Read moreWhat (who) is a geek, anyway?
At those painful and frequent academic moments when one has to sum up one’s entire intellectual existence (not to mention worth) in a couple of perfectly poised sentences, I often…
Read moreSolipsistic intimacies
A blog is an exercise in navel-gazing (except when it isn’t, and there are plenty on my blogroll which are not); even my earliest teenage paper diaries are filled with…
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