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Unfortunately, I didn't get to go to Wiscon this year. Fortunately, quite a lot of the the people who did go have posted notes on the panels they attended, leading to a number of interesting discussions. Such as:
- "Where is the indigenous American fantasy?" (Theodora Goss (mod), Valerie Estelle Frankel, LJ Geoffrion, Andrea D. Hairston, Katherine Mankiller, Georgie L. Schnobrich)
- "How to describe nonwhite characters sans fail" (Mary Doria Russell (mod), K. Tempest Bradford, Moondancer Drake, Amal El-Mohtar, Sumana Harihareswara)
- "The trials, joys and tribulations of Tiptree jury duty" (Alexis Lothian (mod), Gwenda Bond, Karen Joy Fowler, Geoff Ryman, Sheree Renée Thomas)
- "Yearning from the Threshold: magic realism and diaspora literature" (Mary Anne Mohanraj (mod), Hiromi Goto, Nisi Shawl, Sheree Renée Thomas, Ibi Aanu Zoboi)
- "Black souls in white clones: swimming Shawl's "Deep End"" (Eileen Gunn (mod), Andrea D. Hairston, Nancy Jane Moore, Nisi Shawl, Jef A. Smith in absentia) (another report (and another)
- "How intersectionality enlarges feminist community" (E. Cabell Hankinson-Gutman, Ian Hagemann, Betsy Lundsten, Isabel Schechter, and Shveta Thakrar)
- "Class issues in science fiction and fantasy" ( Eleanor A. Arnason (mod), Jess Adams, Alexis Lothian, Beth Plutchak, Fred Schepartz)
Note that these are all panel notes, not verbatim transcripts; and that they're my edited highlights, not a complete listing. You can find more by browsing the Wiscon community on LiveJournal.