Santa Cruz! I am coming to you!
This Sunday, Oct. 5, I'll be at Bookshop Santa Cruz for the kickoff of Banned Books Week. Fight for your right to read the stories you love <3
East Bay peeps! Come see me and FOUR other incredible speculative fiction authors talking about our books at Pegasus Books, 2349 Shattuck Ave. Weds. Oct 1 @ 7 PM.
Featuring @npub1efnt...z2fd, @Annalee Newitz 🍜, Susanna Kwan and Lio Min.
Deets:
"This is a wonderful book for freaks and perverts, for scared and tired academics, and for Witches who like to see Witchcraft done in new and interesting ways... my Witchy read of the fall." - Meg Elison
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A group of youth climate researchers affiliated with UC Davis is trying to fix climate models to correct for fossil fuel industry propaganda that has snuck its way in. But... of course their funding was just cut. :(
So they're doing a GoFundMe.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-BasedMIP-climate-research-efforts
This Friday! Writers With Drinks! Queer spoken word 'n comedy. It's going to be AMAZING.
Here's why I'm so excited about each of these performers/readers...
Some dipshits have taken to calling the majority of humans "NPCs". Meaning we lack agency and don't think for ourselves.
These are the same folks who want us to become dependent on A.I., which will make us lack agency and be unable to think for ourselves.
My latest:
I didn't take enough pics on my book tour but here are some from my wonderful event the other day at Charis. I loved hearing Jess Lewis read about trans people in a post-climate change future and adored Samuel Ace's thoughtful discussion. Plus lovely joyful capacity audience!
When I was in elementary school, I had a really severe learning disability. A special education teacher named Ms. Pennington helped me so much, and inspired me to become a writer and use creativity to get through my challenges.
I'm so glad I got to have lunch with her yesterday.
🔥 James Bond shows the way to save tentpole movies
🔥 Doctor Who should try doing more hard science fiction
🔥 Robert Pattinson should be the DCU's Batman
It's a trio of scorching hot takes!
Back in 1946, the KKK was trying to make a major comeback after World War II.
Enter Superman — the Man of Steel exposed their secrets and took them down in his radio show.
I asked Rick Bowers, author of Superman vs the Ku Klux Klan, what we can learn from this today
