Want to cry AND watch a zombie short film at the same time? Here you go:

Here is an amazing kickstarter that I can’t wait to read (and to submit to)!  Check out Long Hidden.

“Most written chronicles of history, and most speculative stories, put rulers, conquerors, and invaders front and center. People with less power, money, or status—enslaved people, indigenous people, people of color, queer people, laborers, women, people with disabilities, the very young and very old, and religious minorities, among others—are relegated to the margins. Today, mainstream history continues to perpetuate one-sided versions of the past while mistelling or erasing the stories of the rest of the world.

There is a long and honorable legacy of literary resistance to erasure. This anthology partakes of that legacy. It will feature stories from the margins of speculative history, each taking place between 1400 and the early 1900s and putting a speculative twist—an element of science fiction, fantasy, horror, or the unclassifiably strange—on real past events.”

So yeah, I did my entire dissertation on an historic Maya village from the 1850’s, basically trying to move away from the British-focused history of Belize, because there is a whole silenced history out there needing indigenous, non-European perspectives.

AND, I write speculative fiction (or try to).

Perfect, why yes, yes it is.

Until a conversation last night, I had almost totally forgotten about this lush, amazing 1989 film starring Helen Mirren.  It is one of the most beautiful set/costume designs I’ve ever seen.  Plus there are a few haunting songs like wash me.  It is very dark, fairly upsetting, sexy, luminous, and most definitely NSFW.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The most kick ass physicist alive.

It is official, this is my first blog post.  I’m starting this blog mostly to talk about reading and writing.  But I will also probably talk about politics, dogs, video games, feminism, anthropology, my son, and anything else that strikes my fancy.

Over the next few weeks I’ll be learning how to drive wordpress and figuring out how to do this whole blog thing.

Let the games begin!