{"id":5597,"date":"2014-08-22T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=5597"},"modified":"2014-08-22T11:34:52","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T16:34:52","slug":"your-happening-world-august-22nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2014\/08\/22\/your-happening-world-august-22nd\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Happening World  (August 22nd)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookpunks.com\/cosplay-loncon3-saturday-sunday\/\">the cosplay of loncon3: saturday &amp; sunday &#8211; We are book punks.We are book punks.<\/a> &#8211; <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookpunks.com\/cosplay-loncon-friday\/\">the cosplay of loncon3: friday &#8211; We are book punks.We are book punks.<\/a> &#8211; <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookpunks.com\/t-shirts-loncon3\/\">the t-shirts of loncon3 &#8211; We are book punks.We are book punks.<\/a> &#8211; Featuring yours truly<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I29mUJcXf_Y#t=23\">Video impression of LonCon3 &#8211; Saturday<\/a> &#8211; <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ef3FOR3klR8\">Video impression of LonCon3 &#8211; Friday<\/a> &#8211; <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/anjelican.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/22\/loncon3-2\/\">LONCON3 | The Anjelican Universe<\/a> &#8211; <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bookdaze.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/21\/my-day-out-at-loncon3\/#comment-8744\">My Day Out at LonCon3 | Me and My Books<\/a> &#8211; <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kate-nepveu.dreamwidth.org\/tag\/cons:+worldcon:+2014+(loncon+3)\">kate_nepveu | Entries tagged with cons: worldcon: 2014 (loncon 3)<\/a> &#8211; <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tadethompson.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/20\/mental-illness-primer-for-speculative-fiction-creators-contents-page\/\">Mental Illness Primer for Speculative Fiction Creators: Contents page | Long Time After Midnight<\/a> &#8211; This is for creators of speculative fiction. The idea is to improve depiction of the mentally ill in narratives like film, books, music videos etc. It is just a primer, therefore it will not go into too much detail.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/suzannevanrooyen.com\/2014\/08\/22\/summer-cons-and-all-the-awesome\/\">Summer Cons and All the Awesome! | Suzanne van Rooyen<\/a> &#8211; This summer I had the privilege of attending two amazing science fiction and fantasy conventions, not only as a fan, but as a panelist. The first was FinnCon held in June in my university town of Jyv&auml;skyl&auml;. The second was WorldCon held in London just last week. Both cons were great in different ways and here&rsquo;s why&hellip;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/deborahjayauthor.com\/2014\/08\/19\/loncon3-the-curious-case-of-the-panel-about-indie-publishing-without-an-indie-publisher-on-the-panel\/\">#Loncon3 &ndash; THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE PANEL ABOUT INDIE PUBLISHING, WITHOUT AN INDIE PUBLISHER ON THE PANEL | deborahjay<\/a> &#8211; <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/saladonions.tumblr.com\/post\/95403336490\/i-went-to-loncon-3-on-my-own-and-left-it-with-myself\">&#8211; I Went To Loncon 3 On My Own, And Left It With Myself<\/a> &#8211; For conventions are, for one thing, places of understanding. I suppose I feared that I would not understand this world, or it would not understand me, or something equally high-minded. But there&rsquo;s something wonderful about people brought together by common passion. We sat through the opening ceremony, stuffed full of in-jokes and genre references. I didn&rsquo;t get half of them, but even that was fun. A sense of being welcomed into a 72-year-old family with its own customs. A dinner table with one extra place waiting.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kaberett.dreamwidth.org\/tag\/loncon3\">kaberett | Entries tagged with loncon3<\/a> &#8211; <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.jobs.ac.uk\/just-higher-ed\/2014\/08\/22\/the-wanderground\/\">The Wanderground | Just Higher-Ed- jobs.ac.uk career blog<\/a> &#8211; Why am I telling you about what was effectively my summer holiday? Because this Convention-Conference taught me a lot, about how academic conferences are run, what academic conferences could be, and how more intellectual credibility should be given to people outside academia than it often is.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/the13thcolony.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/18\/conventions-hierarchies-and-forced-diversity\/comment-page-1\/#comment-36\">Conventions, hierarchies and forced diversity | The 13th Colony<\/a> &#8211; And this was something that appears to be continually driven through over the weekend, or at the very least the panels that I&rsquo;ve sat and spoken in: the ageism, sexism, racism, anti-academic-ism, hierarchism and various other -isms. I have no doubt Worldcon means a lot to the people who have been going to the convention throughout the decades it has been running and has forged a community there. I even understand the protectionism that they feel when hordes of media fans invade, because yes, sometimes we haven&rsquo;t read the book or appreciate the fight to be legitimised back in the day but does that make our experience less valid, and therefore devalued?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bethanvjones.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/20\/on-loncon3-diversity-and-hierarchies\/\">On LonCon3, Diversity and Hierarchies | bethanvjones<\/a> &#8211; And that wasn&rsquo;t the only dismissive attitude I saw in relation to LGBTQIA people. Another panellist used the offhand &lsquo;gender-whatever&rsquo; in discussing diversity. I tweeted about these instances, as did others, and from what I&rsquo;ve heard they weren&rsquo;t the only ones. But on the flip side I also saw how quickly the con organisers were to deal with racism and how supported one of my fellow panellists felt by them.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/catherinetjhill.blogspot.nl\/2014\/08\/loncon-3.html?spref=tw\">6 Impossible Things: LonCon 3<\/a> &#8211; After being in my new job for a week and a half I took some leave (starting on the busiest day of the year) for 6 days in order to attend LonCon 3, the 72nd WorldCon. Of course I &#039;d booked to go to WorldCon a year before I knew about the job, so it was really just lucky timing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the cosplay of loncon3: saturday &amp; sunday &#8211; We are book punks.We are book punks. &#8211; the cosplay of loncon3: friday &#8211; We are book punks.We are book punks. &#8211; the t-shirts of loncon3 &#8211; We are book punks.We are book punks. &#8211; Featuring yours truly Video impression of LonCon3 &#8211; Saturday &#8211; Video impression [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324],"tags":[870,1993,2441,198],"class_list":["post-5597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linky","tag-fandom","tag-loncon3","tag-science-fiction","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5597"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5606,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597\/revisions\/5606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}