Over on SF Novelists writers are discussing gender roles in fiction:
– Marie Brennan on why a woman’s place is not in the refrigerator. (Or anyplace else she might die tragically and without agency for no reason other than to spur a man to action.)nancyboflood and debbyedwardson have a series on thru_the_booth on writing Native American characters:– Kate Elliott questions why women are so often only allowed to be strong in fiction when protecting their young. (It’s not a bad trope, but need it be the only trope?)
– David Coe asks why male strength so often has to manifest in violence.
– Get the Indians Out of the CupboardOther odds and ends:– Indians In The Cupboard? What Were You Thinking? Let Them Out!
– Warriors Caught in the Crossfire
– American Indian and Alaskan Native Children’s Literature – Whose Story?
– Karen Healey on YA SFF and the transformations of adolescence.And one link that is not at all thinky:– Pam Bachorz on why she doesn’t plan to quit writing.
– Mette Harrison on why her books are her children.
– Jim Hines on why his books are not his children.
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