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Then check out virtual Boskone Feb. 18-20!
Boskone 59 will be happening February 18-20, 2022, and it will be a hybrid event, but for anyone interested in exploring the intersection of disability and science fiction, many of the most fascinating events will be virtual. The Guest of honor is writer Ted Chiang, but Boskone will also feature two amazing female writers with disabilities who will be reading and speaking about their fiction and participating in panels about how to create more inclusive spaces.
Elsa Sjunneson-Henry is a Hugo Award-winning speculative writer and a disability rights activist. in 2018 she was the Co-Guest Editor in Chief of
Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction
https://uncannymagazine.com/issues/uncanny-magazine-issue-twenty-four/
Her new memoir, _Being Seen: One DeafBlind Woman's Fight to End Ableism_,
https://www.snarkbat.com/being-seen
is available to registered readers with disabilities as a downloadable audiobook on Bard and also on Bookshare.org. Read about her many other writing credits and her activism at https://www.snarkbat.com/about
Ada Palmer
https://adapalmer.com/
is a professor of Renaissance history and an award winning writer, who also maintains the history blog Ex Urbe, where you can read
her Campbell Award and Invisibility Disability speech
https://www.exurbe.com/campbell-award-invisible-disability/
The book for which she won the award, _Too Like the Lightning_ (2016) is available from Bard, while Bookshare has Palmer's non-fiction scholarly work, _Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance_ )2014).
Among the virtual panaels which these guests will be speaking on are:
Inclusive Design For the Future
Monstrous Façade: Disability and Disfigurement as a Villainous Trope
Creating Inclusive Cons
and they will also have Kaffeeklatsches and readings.
In addition, media studies and fan studies scholar
Henry Jenkins
https://henryjenkins.org/ (
and my Dumbledore! er, former head of the media studies program at MIT), will be leading this workshop: Civic Imagination Workshop
Join this hands-on workshop for social change, that teaches attendees how to borrow principles from areas of fandom and apply them to real-world activities to help generate lasting, positive change. The workshop will apply ideas from activities such as speculative worldbuilding and fan fiction writing.
The convention schedule is available online in two forms, interactive and non-interactive
https://boskone.org/program/schedule/
The virtual membership rate is $25, and the in-person adult membership is $70. Convention rates are good through February 20, 2022.
You can buy a membership here
https://boskone.org/registration/buy-a-membership/
Boskone 59 will be happening February 18-20, 2022, and it will be a hybrid event, but for anyone interested in exploring the intersection of disability and science fiction, many of the most fascinating events will be virtual. The Guest of honor is writer Ted Chiang, but Boskone will also feature two amazing female writers with disabilities who will be reading and speaking about their fiction and participating in panels about how to create more inclusive spaces.
Elsa Sjunneson-Henry is a Hugo Award-winning speculative writer and a disability rights activist. in 2018 she was the Co-Guest Editor in Chief of
Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction
https://uncannymagazine.com/issues/uncanny-magazine-issue-twenty-four/
Her new memoir, _Being Seen: One DeafBlind Woman's Fight to End Ableism_,
https://www.snarkbat.com/being-seen
is available to registered readers with disabilities as a downloadable audiobook on Bard and also on Bookshare.org. Read about her many other writing credits and her activism at https://www.snarkbat.com/about
Ada Palmer
https://adapalmer.com/
is a professor of Renaissance history and an award winning writer, who also maintains the history blog Ex Urbe, where you can read
her Campbell Award and Invisibility Disability speech
https://www.exurbe.com/campbell-award-invisible-disability/
The book for which she won the award, _Too Like the Lightning_ (2016) is available from Bard, while Bookshare has Palmer's non-fiction scholarly work, _Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance_ )2014).
Among the virtual panaels which these guests will be speaking on are:
Inclusive Design For the Future
Monstrous Façade: Disability and Disfigurement as a Villainous Trope
Creating Inclusive Cons
and they will also have Kaffeeklatsches and readings.
In addition, media studies and fan studies scholar
Henry Jenkins
https://henryjenkins.org/ (
and my Dumbledore! er, former head of the media studies program at MIT), will be leading this workshop: Civic Imagination Workshop
Join this hands-on workshop for social change, that teaches attendees how to borrow principles from areas of fandom and apply them to real-world activities to help generate lasting, positive change. The workshop will apply ideas from activities such as speculative worldbuilding and fan fiction writing.
The convention schedule is available online in two forms, interactive and non-interactive
https://boskone.org/program/schedule/
The virtual membership rate is $25, and the in-person adult membership is $70. Convention rates are good through February 20, 2022.
You can buy a membership here
https://boskone.org/registration/buy-a-membership/
