Two amazing and thought-provoking essays about the changing face of technology:
The Secret Lives of Tumblr Teens chronicles the rise and fall of teen entrepreneurs who built effective Tumblr networks and monetised them. Yep, this is what the new generation is doing when you think they’re just ‘spending all their time on the internet:’ dominating their own realms of social media.
At the Toast, a love letter to the era that was Livejournal, a time when we wrote intensely personal diaries for public performance.
Kate Elliott’s tour-de-force essay on Writing Women Characters into Epic Fantasy Without Quotas
Deb Biancotti on the Appeal of Icy, Remote Research Stations. Buy her new book!
Kate Forsyth’s Big Idea post over at Scalzi’s Whatever, on her love on the Rapunzel fairy tale, and the work she put into research for her doctorate. Buy her new book too!
Glenda Larke’s fantastic speech in response to winning the inaugural Sara Douglass Series Award.
Love this bit of historical ephemera: historical female spies who hid their secrets in eggs and artichokes. I WANT THAT THEME ANTHOLOGY!
Junot Diaz and Hilton Als talk masculinity, science fiction, and writing as an act of defiance.
The subversive history of women using thread as ink.