Unofficial WisCon 38 Programming Idea-Generation Fest

[laceblade]

Let’s talk about what we would like to see at WisCon 38 for programming, any topic.

Post any thoughts you have, however semi-formed.
People can comment & try to come up with the best panels possible! Anyone can suggest panel ideas: People who run the convention, authors, attendees, or people who have never attended WisCon and never will. Please feel free to join in!

If the comments go in a direction you dislike, or you don't want to participate in a discussion, you can submit your own panel idea here on WisCon's website.

Here's a link to the Dreamwidth post on which we came up with ideas for WisCon 37, specifically anime/manga programming. It's an example of how this works. Threaded comments FTW.


Things to know:
--Not every panel idea that gets suggested ends up on the schedule. For WisCon 37, programming chairs had to cut about 50% of the panels due to space/time constraints.
--Much closer to WisCon 38, people will be able to vote on WisCon's website for panels they'd like to attend, & also indicate their interest in being a panelist or a moderator. These votes matter.
--Programming minions edit panel titles/descriptions after they've been submitted. Sometimes they combine multiple panels on the same theme into a single panel.

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Commenting disclaimer: If you're reading this on LiveJournal, I would appreciate it if you could post your comments on the Dreamwidth post, so they're all in one spot. Of course, if you are unable to do so, comment at LJ.

Comments

[coffeeandink]

Femslash/femslash/uber/f\/f
Is f/f the same thing as lesbian fiction? Is it appropriative when straight women write femslash/femmeslash/uber? What do we like about femslash? (Sexy funtimes = totally valid answer.) What tropes do we love or hate? What trends do we see in f/f? What do we want to see? What's some good stuff we've read lately?

NB: Would prefer NOT to discuss m/m at all. F/f is its own topic & it needs more love.

The Manga of Yuki Kaori
The manga of Yuki Kaori (Angel Sanctuary, The Cain Saga, Fairy Cube) is gorgeous, incoherent, full of genderqueerness, striking women, and misogyny, and contains the occasional armada of zombie cannibal angel embryos sent to destroy the earth. Let's discuss.

The Manga of Hagio Moto
Not enough work by this mangaka is available in English, but her influential Heart of Thomas has finally been published, as well as a career-spanning retrospective of short stories. A few more series are partially available to people who read scanlations. People who are fluent in Japanese also have access to Otherworld Barbara and many other Hagio works that focus explicitly on gender. Let's discuss Hagio's artwork and her recurrent themes, such as abuse and the boundaries of identity.

[Other people should identify more actual themes, I'm blanking.]

Would also be interested in a panel on BOTH Hagio and Takemiya.

The Works of N.K. Jemisin

The Works of Hiromi Goto

(I know it's typical to have panels on GOHs, but I think the generalist book-club type stuff sometimes hasn't been listed? Or I'm oblivious. Also a possibility.)

Kiini Ibura Salaam's Ancient, Ancient and Caitlin Kiernan's The Drowning Girl
Bookclub-like discussion of last year's Tiptree winners

Sofia Samatar's A Stranger in Olondria
Because I think this is going to be a big topic of discussion this year.

Epic Fantasy by Women from the 50s to the Present Day
C.L. Moore's Jirel of Joiry stories, Joanna Russ's Alyx stories, Elizabeth Lynn, Mary Gentle, Kate Elliott, N.K. Jemisin, Judith Tarr, Patricia McKillip, more stuff listed here and here. What is epic fantasy? Why is it so often defined to exclude works by women? What are features common to epic fantasies by women? Also let's recommend books to each other, because that is always cool.

What is Science in Feminist SF?
Not sure exactly where to go with this, but I feel like a lot of the arguments about "Women write more fantasy than sf!" are assuming a particular definition of science that should be questioned. And also are applying gender bias to the "hardness" of sf by men and women.

Current Tropes in Feminist SF/F
In the 70s and 80s, the predominant tropes of feminist sff were aliens (usually as metaphors for women, but sometimes as contrasts to assumed human ideas about gender), utopias, and dystopias. Are these tropes still used today? What else is used? What distinguishes today's feminist dystopias from their forebears? What does the increase in near-future settings mean? How do we identify feminist sff?

[kiki_miserychic]

Sign me up for Femslash/femslash/uber/f\/f

[were_duck]

Me tooooooo! I think that one would be super popular at WisCon. I love all of these ideas, though.

[laceblade]

OMG if discussing femslash, I would have a reason to discuss Glee fandom at WisCon :*)

[j00j]

Would love to go to a panel on f/f!!

[oyceter]

+++ Yuki Kaori and Hagio Moto and Takemiya Keiko!

[coffeeandink]

Also Tamura Yumi? 2014: The Year We Talk About ALL the Manga

And someone*cough*Oyce*cough* who knows more about Kdrama than I do should propose a Kdrama panel.

[oyceter]

Bwahaha, I am passing the responsibility on and trying to brainstorm with troisroyaumes.

ETA: I also vote for a panel that is just about 7 Seeds! Hi, I am reading more volumes and currently obsessed.

[jinian]

YESSSSSS

[meganbmoore]

I second kdrama panel, though I think the list of those of us interested/who have seen any is pretty small.

[oracne]

Maybe it could be kdrama recruitment with video and such.

[emceeaich]

+1 the Sofia Samatar's A Stranger in Olondria panel