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My Wiscon schedule
May. 14th, 2010 12:00 pmIn case anyone cares. I'm really looking forward to all three panels.
Sexuality in Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy series
Sat, 10:00–11:15 am Room 634
Moderator: Anna Black. Anna Black, Charlie Jane, Beth Friedman, Jean Roberta, Juliana
D'Angelines claim all kinds of consensual sexual activity and relationships are normal, even sacred. Yet some tendencies are clearly less acceptable than others (e.g., Phedre's masochism), sex workers are sacred yet not always respected, and political marriages are common in a society that says it values free choice. Many of their taboos look much like our own: e.g., in a society that doesn't value sexual "purity," should a courtesan's first sexual experience be so fetishized? For that matter, why do the relationships focused on in the currently published books tend to be hetero, monogamous, and relatively vanilla? Which of Terre D'Ange's practices are genuinely transgressive in terms of our social constructions of sexuality, and which seem to reinforce those constructions?
Fanfic and Slash: 201
Sat, 2:30–3:45 pm Senate A
Moderator: Ariel Franklin-Hudson. Evelyn Browne, Katie Clapham, Beth Friedman, J J Pionke
Where is fanfiction/slash going? What new fandoms are developing? What are new developments in fanfiction/slash (Archive of Our Own, Organization for Transformative Works)?
Religion in Lois McMaster Bujold's Chalion
Sun, 10:00–11:15 am Conference 5
Moderator: Gayle. Christopher Davis, Beth Friedman, Naomi Kritzer, Talks-with-wind
Bujold's Chalion is a world where gods and demons are real and people can be touched by the them. How does this vision of "gods" speak to you? What do you think of the role of the Bastard? How do "real gods" affect a society? Why, given the Mother and Daughter, does Bujold's world still seem so patriarchal—with women, at least noble women, limited to wife, mother, daughter?
Sexuality in Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy series
Sat, 10:00–11:15 am Room 634
Moderator: Anna Black. Anna Black, Charlie Jane, Beth Friedman, Jean Roberta, Juliana
D'Angelines claim all kinds of consensual sexual activity and relationships are normal, even sacred. Yet some tendencies are clearly less acceptable than others (e.g., Phedre's masochism), sex workers are sacred yet not always respected, and political marriages are common in a society that says it values free choice. Many of their taboos look much like our own: e.g., in a society that doesn't value sexual "purity," should a courtesan's first sexual experience be so fetishized? For that matter, why do the relationships focused on in the currently published books tend to be hetero, monogamous, and relatively vanilla? Which of Terre D'Ange's practices are genuinely transgressive in terms of our social constructions of sexuality, and which seem to reinforce those constructions?
Fanfic and Slash: 201
Sat, 2:30–3:45 pm Senate A
Moderator: Ariel Franklin-Hudson. Evelyn Browne, Katie Clapham, Beth Friedman, J J Pionke
Where is fanfiction/slash going? What new fandoms are developing? What are new developments in fanfiction/slash (Archive of Our Own, Organization for Transformative Works)?
Religion in Lois McMaster Bujold's Chalion
Sun, 10:00–11:15 am Conference 5
Moderator: Gayle. Christopher Davis, Beth Friedman, Naomi Kritzer, Talks-with-wind
Bujold's Chalion is a world where gods and demons are real and people can be touched by the them. How does this vision of "gods" speak to you? What do you think of the role of the Bastard? How do "real gods" affect a society? Why, given the Mother and Daughter, does Bujold's world still seem so patriarchal—with women, at least noble women, limited to wife, mother, daughter?
