Oh, I got that internship in Seattle. The wild blog titles worked. I'll be writing more blog stuff and learning a lot about stationery. (Apparently The Great Gatsby is in for 2014.)And don't worry, it's a paid internship. I don't work for free.
Category: Writing
Critical Writing
It's amazing the immense difference that moving a paragraph can make. Working on my critical writing sample for grad school and tore down a wall by moving page three to page one. It's all making sense! Now I just have to finish it.
Fledgling
Fledgling by Octavia Butler is the greatest novel ever.Polyamorous queer vampires? Clean prose? Spec fic? I'm in.
Supervise
One of my writing consultants called meThe best boss ever.Yess.
Seattle
Working on some fake blog post titles for an internship opportunity in Seattle. Deciding whether to be wildly outlandish or somewhat reserved. Leaning hard towards the outlandish. Snarky is in, right?
Beyond “Equal Representation”: Some Thoughts on Racebending Villains of Color in White-Dominated Sci-fi and Comic Book Films
All about media criticism today.
Hunger Games and the Limits of White Imagination | Olivia Cole
Hunger Games and the Limits of White Imagination | Olivia Cole. Smart piece on media representations of white and non-white people. Considering our role as authors (makers of media), Suzanne Collins's interest in racial ambiguity of her characters (including Katniss) forces us all to think about typecasting and the racial overtones of our work, especially… Continue reading Hunger Games and the Limits of White Imagination | Olivia Cole
Why Teach and Study English? : The New Yorker
Another response to the policing of humanities: The irony of neo-conservatives challenging institutions is that they fetishize many other kinds of institutions. You know, the kinds that lock people up. Why Teach and Study English? : The New Yorker. “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The [hu]man who never reads lives only… Continue reading Why Teach and Study English? : The New Yorker
Octavia Butler and Diversity in Sci-Fi | Tokyo Jupiter
A cool discussion of my girl Octavia and the exclusion of women and authors of color in speculative fiction. Political science fiction is real and important, and sci-fi nerds need to join forces with social justice ideologies and actively advocate for non-white, non-male authors and narratives. Afrofuturism, y'all. Octavia Butler and the Question of Diversity… Continue reading Octavia Butler and Diversity in Sci-Fi | Tokyo Jupiter
“50 Books” – Flavorwire
50 Books That Define the Past Five Years in Literature – Flavorwire. Another interesting list from Flavorwire on literature. This one includes my writer-crush Kate Zambreno's Heroines and Sheila Heti's How Should A Person Be? (which I obsessively gobbled up in two days, but everyone in the universe still loves to hate), so I forgive some of their… Continue reading “50 Books” – Flavorwire
Jesse Rice-Evans 