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jesse_the_k) wrote2020-08-03 02:30 pm
Hooray for CoNZealand Fringe
CoNZealand Fringe was a project of many genre-fiction fan communities, including book tubers, online-zinesters and podcasters.
In the tradition of Edinburgh Fringe and other international collateral events, CoNZealand Fringe has been created as a complementary programming series to the annual science fiction convention Worldcon. All our livestreams take place outside core CoNZealand programming hours and are not official CoNZealand programming items. CoNZealand Fringe is not endorsed by CoNZealand.
For their 15 panels, details of topics and panelists
https://www.conzealandfringe.com
CoNZealand Fringe YouTube Playlist
Autocraptioned, but YT is closed to 97% than 90% with these particular speakers.
Media queries were directed to Claire Rousseau, Adri Joy, Alasdair Stuart and Marguerite Kenner, Cheryl Morgan and Cassie Hart, so I assume they ran the show. I was impressed by the smoothness of their panels -- the mods were well prepared, they started on time, they handled the time-zone issue more deftly than the official WorldCon. I'm sure that WorldCon planning is like steering a battleship: these folks were a racing catamaran.
2 August
3-4AM NZST (NEXT DAY) • 4-5PM BST • 11AM-12PM EDT • 8-9AM PDTSensitivity Reading: What is it, who does it, who needs it? Panel: Cheryl Morgan (M), Mike Carey, iori Kusano, Yvonne Lin, Corinne Duyvis [coiner of #ownvoices hashtag]
Sensitivity reading is a hot topic these days, on the one hand being seen as a must have, and on the other as part of “cancel culture”. But what does a sensitivity reader do? What skills does the job require? What should the sensitivity reader, author and publisher expect from the relationship?
I learned a lot about the on-the-ground realities of sensitivity reading, which can be lost in the scornful discourse mocking people who want their writing to reflect lived reality. Corinne Duyvis's point that the gaping absence of autistic characters in her reading growing up meant she'd never thought of her self as autistic until her later-life diagnosis. She highlights the importance of research and exploration in the area in addition to lived experience.