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Today, Ursula K. Le Guin celebrates her 80th birthday. Her wonderful stories have immensely widened my political outlook and inspired my commitment to social change. Here’s to many more birthdays!
Birthday Celebration Links:
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For those of you in the Seattle area, you might be interested in a panel I’m moderating at the Seattle Anarchist Bookfair on anarchism and science fiction.
This panel, presented by Common Action, will consist of local anarchist fans, writers, and...
I love it when science fiction is linked to real life radical social movements. When I saw Derrick Jensen speak a few years ago at my university, I loved his retelling of Star Wars to critique of reform-centered environmentalism. Now filmmaker...
(This post contains mild spoilers for the HBO vampire series, True Blood.)
The most recent episode of True Blood, “Frenzy,” had a feminist reminder coming from a jock of all people. In this episode, the second to last of season two, the town-folk of...
Reading various discussions and justifications online about whether or not to boycott Shadow Complex – a new game which is written as a prequel to Empire, Orson Scott Card’s novel/game about a liberal conspiracy taking over the US – brought this to...
