![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Entry tags:
WisCONline: Day Three
Today I:
-- Attended the panel in which four members of the Motherboard discussed the decision to change the name of the Otherwise Award, formerly known as the Tiptree Award. If you aren't familiar with the backstory, or even if you are, I highly suggest reading this long article in which the Motherboard goes into quite a lot of detail. It was a difficult subject that was handled relatively well; in a perfect world, there would have been more than one panel on the topic, centering different points of view, but given the limitations of the online con, I'm glad they did it.
-- Survived my panel on Cities in SFF: City as History/City as Liberator. As with every other panel, those 45 minutes just whizzed by, but I got to say a few things about American anti-urbanism and the potential that COVID-19 will make that tendency even worse, and I rec'd The Green Bone Saga, and (apparently, as I saw when I backread the chat thread) blew a few people's minds by bringing up the Back to the Future trilogy as an interesting depiction of cities in film. In a later follow-up chat, I pointed out that Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a documentary, at least in terms of the history of how the freeway destroyed the Los Angeles streetcar system, and got a similar reaction. Pointing out the urban planning ramifications of pop culture film: my brand since 1993. I got many compliments on the panel afterwards, which was really nice.
-- Spent some time wandering around the Discord, getting into a bit of a post-con conversation about the cities panel, as mentioned above, dropping into a few other conversations, connecting with a few friends.
-- Had a second planned Zoom meet-up with other friends, which was lovely and fun and also helped me decompress from the panel.
-- Listened to the Guest of Honor speech and the Otherwise presentation, fancy dessert at the ready! (I also thought about dressing up but was not quite that motivated. I did wear my dragon necklace, though, which a few people at the panel noticed!) Rebecca Roanhorse gave a beautiful speech about how stories save lives, and ended with a call to create, which I very badly needed to hear. Next year's guests of honor are Sheree Renee Thomas and Zen Cho, whom I will be very sad to miss.
Tomorrow is some wrap-up, and saying goodbye, which will be both sad and weird and a little distant. But really, I hope we just get to bask in the fact that this con actually happened. I'm sure I'll have more to say about that when the time comes.
-- Attended the panel in which four members of the Motherboard discussed the decision to change the name of the Otherwise Award, formerly known as the Tiptree Award. If you aren't familiar with the backstory, or even if you are, I highly suggest reading this long article in which the Motherboard goes into quite a lot of detail. It was a difficult subject that was handled relatively well; in a perfect world, there would have been more than one panel on the topic, centering different points of view, but given the limitations of the online con, I'm glad they did it.
-- Survived my panel on Cities in SFF: City as History/City as Liberator. As with every other panel, those 45 minutes just whizzed by, but I got to say a few things about American anti-urbanism and the potential that COVID-19 will make that tendency even worse, and I rec'd The Green Bone Saga, and (apparently, as I saw when I backread the chat thread) blew a few people's minds by bringing up the Back to the Future trilogy as an interesting depiction of cities in film. In a later follow-up chat, I pointed out that Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a documentary, at least in terms of the history of how the freeway destroyed the Los Angeles streetcar system, and got a similar reaction. Pointing out the urban planning ramifications of pop culture film: my brand since 1993. I got many compliments on the panel afterwards, which was really nice.
-- Spent some time wandering around the Discord, getting into a bit of a post-con conversation about the cities panel, as mentioned above, dropping into a few other conversations, connecting with a few friends.
-- Had a second planned Zoom meet-up with other friends, which was lovely and fun and also helped me decompress from the panel.
-- Listened to the Guest of Honor speech and the Otherwise presentation, fancy dessert at the ready! (I also thought about dressing up but was not quite that motivated. I did wear my dragon necklace, though, which a few people at the panel noticed!) Rebecca Roanhorse gave a beautiful speech about how stories save lives, and ended with a call to create, which I very badly needed to hear. Next year's guests of honor are Sheree Renee Thomas and Zen Cho, whom I will be very sad to miss.
Tomorrow is some wrap-up, and saying goodbye, which will be both sad and weird and a little distant. But really, I hope we just get to bask in the fact that this con actually happened. I'm sure I'll have more to say about that when the time comes.