Somebody Will, again
I'm having one of those everything-is-deeply-intertwingled moments. On the way home, Ada Palmer's haunting and lovely and sad-yet-hopeful song “Somebody...
Archive for Improving Society
Tomorrowland
I just watched the movie Tomorrowland, and I'm surprised I haven't seen more people posting about it. It's the story...
Randomized Dystopias
Want to write a dystopia, but you're tired of dystopias that abrogate the same old rights that dystopias always abrogate?...
Lack of condemnation doesn’t equal approval
I still haven't finished writing any of the real blog posts I want to write about the Hugo situation. For...
That which does not kill us can still hurt
The other day, I saw yet another article that conveyed the very common narrative that difficulties and hardships make us...
Talking to people who are going through tough times
This post is something I've been meaning to write for years; I'm finally writing it as a starting point/background for...
Chocolate produced by slaves
A lot of the world's chocolate supply is produced by child labor and slave labor. I've been trying for a...
Torture apologism
In the wake of the US Senate report on the CIA's use of “enhanced interrogation techniques,” plenty of prominent people...
Oakland encounter
Yesterday evening, after leaving Kam's place in Oakland and putting a bunch of stuff into my car in the dark,...
Excellent feminist movie: Made in Dagenham
I just rewatched the 2010 movie Made in Dagenham. It's even better than I remembered it: feminist, laugh-out-loud funny, occasionally...
Lucy and the Guardians at the box office
When I saw the trailer for Lucy a few months back, the movie looked pretty bad to me, but I...
Stop it with the all-white panels on diversity
At WorldCon in Glasgow in 2005, there were two panels about cultural appropriation in writing. In my memory (which may...