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One of the things that has protected trans rights in the UK over the past couple of years is that the Tories are too busy, and too cowardly, to actually repeal the Gender Recognition Act, even th...
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Ah, the Spring Equinox (in the Northern Hemisphere, at any rate). It is a time of new beginnings, and so perhaps a time to talk about new things. Things, at any rate, that have been gestating ove...
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Last year I was invited to be a Guest of Honour at LuxCon . It was the weekend after Eastercon which, if you remember, was a massive superspreader event for COVID. So I ended up being sick and un...
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As I have probably said before, I am useless at obituaries. When I need to write one, one coping mechanism is to wait and see what others have said. But I can’t put this off any longer. Most ...
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Issue #58 of Salon Futura went online last week, just squeaking into February thanks to the leap day. In it you can find the following: Book reviews The Dawnhounds – New Weird from New Zeala...
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The results of this year’s Crawford Award for a first fantasy book were announced yesterday. They are: WINNER: Vajra Chandrasekra, The Saint of Bright Doors (Tor) Honourable Mentions: Juhan...
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It appears to be necessary to wean my sites off Jetpack, and eventually all Automattic products. I don’t have the time to investigate Ghost right now, but I am working on reducing the Jetpack f...
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As questions have been raised on File770 regarding my involvement in the Chengdu Hugo Award disaster, I am making a public statement. 1. I was not a member of the committee of the Chengdu World...
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This Wednesday at 13:00 (UK time) I will be giving a free online talk on trans history for The Diversity Trust. It will be fairly general and basic as it will cover around 2000 years, but there w...
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The lovely people at Inclusive Journalism Cymru have kindly taken another one of my articles. This one is all about what the media insists on calling “artificial intelligence”. The piece is c...
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It is that time of year once more, and the annual Locus Recommended Reading List is now live. I am once again honoured to have been invited to contribute to the creation of the list. I am one per...
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A couple of weeks back I was doing some work in the house. I was kneeling down, and as I went to push myself upright I felt something go in my left knee. That’s not entirely unusual. I’ve had...
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My thanks to everyone who welcomed the ideas Kevin and I had for reforming Hugo Award administration. However, I regret to say that I no longer believe that solution is possible. Here’s why. ...
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There has been talk for a few days that Chengdu gave notice in advance that Hugo Administration might be subject to local laws. I’ve been reluctant to support it without proof, but that has now...
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One of the more common questions I’m getting asked on social media is why WSFS is not incorporated, and why is there so much resistance to it being so. I’m not really the right person to answ...
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In amongst all of the discussion as to what to do about the Chengdu Hugo issue has been one suggestion that can actually be implemented, albeit over a number of years. That is decoupling Hugo Awa...
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The social media drama about this year’s Hugos continues unabated. Kevin and I are still getting a fair amount of pushback to our attempts explain what can and can’t be done. A lot of this fa...
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We have finally got the nomination statistics for the 2023 Hugos, and understandably there is a great deal of concern being express. Some very strange things have gone on. Believe me, I’m not h...
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And that means that LGBT+ History Month is on the horizon. Interest in this sort of thing seems to have waned a bit over the past few years. That’s partly because the sorts of institutions that...
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I have cancelled my subscription to Duolingo. It has been a good run, and I think it has helped quite a bit in my efforts to learn Welsh. However, I reached the end of the Welsh course some time ...
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