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jesse_the_k) wrote2020-07-15 04:57 pm
boost: FIYAH Con
FIYAHCON is a virtual convention centering the perspectives and celebrating the contributions of BIPOC in speculative fiction, hosted by FIYAH Literary Magazine. The inaugural event takes place October 17-18, 2020 and will host a variety of entertaining and educational content surrounding the business, craft, and community of speculative literature.
Where the magazine is focused specifically on the elevation of Black voices in short speculative fiction, FIYAHCON seeks to center the perspectives and experiences of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color). The reasoning is that Black voices are not the least represented in the field, and we don’t want to exclude groups who are already systemically excluded from other spaces.
We recognize allyship as an action, not a sentiment. And in that spirit, we also invite anyone who wishes to be viewed as a resource for racially/ethnically marginalized writers or who understand these are people to be celebrated and learned from, to be a part of the event.
Get ready for two days of dynamic, entertaining content with BIPOC at the center of speculative literature discourse! The event takes place October 17-18, 2020 and includes panels, presentations, office hours, write-ins, workshops, kickbacks, virtual tea house, and more.
Two days, $40.
Fiyah is a quarterly speculative fiction magazine that features stories by and about Black people of the African Diaspora. From their mission statement:
What does it mean to be Black and look at intersectional issues of equality through the lens of science fiction and fantasy? Where are those stories in the canon? There is Black excellence out there waiting to be discovered and not tokenized. Octavia Butler is our past and she is an amazing ancestor, but she should not be our only storyteller.
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FIYAH rises from the ashes of the Black literary tradition started by Fire!! in 1926. We aren’t here for respectability. We’re here to ask what it means to be Black and extraordinary. We are a place to showcase your stories and grow your career. Part literary incubator, part middle-finger to the establishment, we know you have stories to tell, and we are here for it.
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So give us your Black elves, your Black space captains, your Black heretics standing against prophecies and insurmountable odds. Send us your Black wizards and Black gods, your Black sergeants fighting on alien planets. Give us all of your horror, SFF, and relevant subgenres. Because the future of genre is now.
It's a paying venue that costs $15/year in ebooks format, or $4/issue for singles. Check it out!
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I'd volunteer for a panel but I'm so fair-skinned as to easily pass for white and I'm not sure if (if there's a video component) that would be a bad thing and make people uncomfortable. I suppose I could reach out and ask!
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Have you written/read work comparing/contrasting racial/gender/disability passing? There's certainly lots to chew on there and I'm muddled on a way through.
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Ellen Samuels has a few pieces out in journals on the topic that are years old now but still good, as well as a full length book! I've wanted to write about the intersections myself and gotten very twisted about in how much there was to say and how hard it is to present, combined with not being sure what exactly the message I was trying to present was...
Samuels is out of UW Madison so honestly I wouldn't be surprised if you're already familiar with her work. :) However if you are not, "Fantasies of Identification" seems to have made it from being a small production out of NYU Press onto being available on Amazon, so I definitely recommend getting a copy of that. In the best possible world your library will have it because the ebook seems to be ABSURDLY EXPENSIVE.
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Well hell that’s a great suggestion — yep she’s local and I even attended the book birthday! Thank you.