books & writing

Barbara Moore’s book launch today in Melbourne: Cosmic Collisions and Falling Bodies

By lauredhel on 2010-08-20

With apologies for the late notice. Please also note that Barbara Moore’s book has now been published by MacMillan, and her sister will be receiving her Master’s degree this weekend. ~~~ Last Year we posted an obituary honouring the life… Read More ›

Friday Hoydens: witches, hags, crones and harpies

By tigtog on 2010-08-13 • ( 23 )

I don’t have time to do justice to the mountains of myths about women who have positions of some status and authority amongst other women as advisors, counsellors and healers…

Today, I haz been mostly reading Eddings Elder Gods Bk 2

By tigtog on 2010-08-12

I was also lapping up the sunshine, at least until it clouded over about 2pm. The wind was cold and gusty, but the sunshine was lovely. I took the day off to enjoy it.

Friday Hoyden: Best Feminist Young Adult Books

By tigtog on 2010-08-06 • ( 8 )

What was the first book you read and thought “wow, I never knew girls/women could do that“? Or alternatively, the first book you read and thought “why on earth would those people think girls/women shouldn’t do that?”.

Second thoughts about that semicolon?

By tigtog on 2010-06-17 • ( 8 )

The Oatmeal explains how to do it right; all hail the wisdom of The Oatmeal! P.S. The Oatmeal also has a handy dandy How To Use An Apostrophe guide. Go on, you know you want to send it to someone… Read More ›

Guest Post by Alisa Krasnostein: The Invisibility of Women in Science Fiction

By Guest Poster on 2010-06-10 • ( 16 )

Over the last couple of years, there has been increasing discussion online about the ongoing gender disparity in science fiction (SF). We still see low representations of women in science fiction magazines and anthologies, many awards shortlists, and in criticism of the genre. One of the issues that has become apparent is that those who commentate and review the genre wield much power in directing what works get read and recognised. To me, this seems like a significant wall that needs to be broken down in the quest to see women equally respected and represented in this genre.