some Wiscon highlights
Jun. 4th, 2011 10:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwynnegaOh my, it's already Saturday night and I haven't con-reported! And I don't even have con crud as an excuse (though I did have some leg soreness for a couple of days due to something I must've done during my day of travel on Tuesday).
So, Wiscon! It was great to hang out withnwhepcat, nickelmountain, skogkatt, general_jinjur, likeadeuce and many others. I read poems at the Broad Universe Rapid-fire Reading and had a lot of fun participating in the Fiction Writing in the Age of Fast Information panel with Theodora Goss, Andrea Hairston, Naomi Kritzer, Ann Leckie, and Fred Schepartz.
Some of the terrific panels I attended included: Princess Boys: Is Male Femininity the Last Wave of Feminism?; Celebrating Diana Wynne Jones (withcoffeeandink, Sarah Monette and others) (though I greatly longed to clone myself so I could attend This is What Democracy Looks Like: The Wisconsin Protests, scheduled at the same time!); Whedonistas: Feminists Engage With the Worlds of Joss Whedon; and Being a Resilient Writer (the final panel I attended, and the perfect one to send me back home to my writing).
Also great fun were the vid party, the launch party for Catherynne M. Valente's The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (featuring a concert by SJ Tucker AND bartending byseanan_mcguire!), and the Space Fairies From Beyond reading at a packed Michelangelo's, featuring Pamela Dean, Seanan McGuire, Sarah Monette, Cat Valente, and David D. Levine.
As always, there was much wonderful food, though the Concourse once again let me down by taking the butterscotch pudding off the menu before the con! (The vanilla bread pudding was awfully good, though.) I'm still fondly remembering the creamed-spinach-and-potato pie I had on Monday at Monty's Blue Plate Diner. And, of course, the Dessert Salon, at which the chocolate decadence cake with raspberry sauce continued to be my favorite.
Con programming was, I think, pretty much complete when Joanna Russ died, and I didn't manage to attend the spontaneous programming on her work, but there were some very moving tributes to Russ by Timmi Duchamp, Geoff Ryman and others before Nisi Shawl's Guest of Honor Speech and the Tiptree Ceremony.
So, Wiscon! It was great to hang out with
nwhepcat, nickelmountain, skogkatt, general_jinjur, likeadeuce and many others. I read poems at the Broad Universe Rapid-fire Reading and had a lot of fun participating in the Fiction Writing in the Age of Fast Information panel with Theodora Goss, Andrea Hairston, Naomi Kritzer, Ann Leckie, and Fred Schepartz. Some of the terrific panels I attended included: Princess Boys: Is Male Femininity the Last Wave of Feminism?; Celebrating Diana Wynne Jones (with
coffeeandink, Sarah Monette and others) (though I greatly longed to clone myself so I could attend This is What Democracy Looks Like: The Wisconsin Protests, scheduled at the same time!); Whedonistas: Feminists Engage With the Worlds of Joss Whedon; and Being a Resilient Writer (the final panel I attended, and the perfect one to send me back home to my writing).Also great fun were the vid party, the launch party for Catherynne M. Valente's The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (featuring a concert by SJ Tucker AND bartending by
seanan_mcguire!), and the Space Fairies From Beyond reading at a packed Michelangelo's, featuring Pamela Dean, Seanan McGuire, Sarah Monette, Cat Valente, and David D. Levine.As always, there was much wonderful food, though the Concourse once again let me down by taking the butterscotch pudding off the menu before the con! (The vanilla bread pudding was awfully good, though.) I'm still fondly remembering the creamed-spinach-and-potato pie I had on Monday at Monty's Blue Plate Diner. And, of course, the Dessert Salon, at which the chocolate decadence cake with raspberry sauce continued to be my favorite.
Con programming was, I think, pretty much complete when Joanna Russ died, and I didn't manage to attend the spontaneous programming on her work, but there were some very moving tributes to Russ by Timmi Duchamp, Geoff Ryman and others before Nisi Shawl's Guest of Honor Speech and the Tiptree Ceremony.
