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• Yai, Fogcon is already coming up! CB and I should be going, and I might even be staying in the hotel for a bit. Who else is coming?
  
  I should probably start organizing a dinocorn dinner/lunch, huh....


• I registered for Wiscon! You can still suggest programming, and laceblade has handily put up an entry for anime and manga programming idea generation and solidification. I feel like lots of people in my dwircle would be awesome at that, and I am all for more anime/manga programming at Wiscon, especially since last year's Ooku panel was so kickass.


• rachelmanija's Read-a-thon Day Two starts today.


• I have been terrible at keeping up with DW/LJ, much less other blogs, in the past few years, but stumbled across Moving Beyond a Politics of Solidarity Towards a Practice of Decolonization from delux_vivens.
  

  We have to be cautious to avoid replicating the state’s assimilationist model of liberal pluralism, whereby Indigenous identities are forced to fit within our existing groups and narratives. The inherent right to traditional lands and to self-determination is expressed collectively and should not be subsumed within the discourse of individual or human rights. Furthermore, it is imperative to understand being Indigenous as not just an identity but a way of life, which is intricately connected to Indigenous people’s relationship to the land and all its inhabitants. Indigenous struggle cannot simply be accommodated within other struggles; it demands solidarity on its own terms.



• I've also been so out of it that I didn't know this online journal existed, but Social Text's Speculative Life issue looks awesome. There are pieces on ability in Octavia Butler and Janelle Monae's works, two pieces on Native people in SF/F, one on radically defining "queering SF/F," and other things I suspect people would be interested in.