#EagleCon

[queerasdaycosplay]

Small non Trigun interlude! A local university was putting on a con and Peter Facinelli was going to be there so my roommate and I decided to throw together a couple Twilight cosplays!

Edward was a combination of things I owned and things I thrifted. The jacket I got on poshmark and I was worried it wasn't going to come on time or wouldn't fit, so I actually got a backup one from Kohls. Luckily is worked out really well and I didn't have to use it!

Meeting Carlisle was so fun!!! He was super nice and we got to talk to him a little. I will cherish these photos forever <3

[topazstrange21]

Time to start convention season!!!

[dualcon]

Some Things to Check Out

I wanted to share some information on what our Guests, Vendors, and GMs are up to. MonRiverGames is hosting their Spring Indie Showcase of regional game studios in Morgantown on April 1st. Bryan Larch is having a Kickstarter for his solo-play, d6, pen and paper fantasy adventure game: Random Quest Dungeon Delve. Oh Crap! is collaborating with itgirlfriday for a secret card in the their game.…

[geekifyinc]

Some custom eSports tournament trophies we made to sponsor #eaglecon for @fgcu 's annual LAN party event. #esports #gaming #overwatch #leagueoflegends #trophy #lanparty #florida #madeincolorado https://www.instagram.com/p/BwVYEBKD0bC/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=t4by2a0o6711

[idrawpaintings]

Day 41/365- had an absolute blast sketching at @eagleconla with @nellii_bug today. We met so many amazing people- like my fellow Neil Gaiman nerd @ilyeris ! #neilgaiman #nerd #con #eaglecon #sketch #drawing #art #365drawingchallenge #instaart #instaartist #artistofinstagram #comicbook #comic

[zombieteddie]

@zacshirk & I are at @eagleconla!!! Come say hi! :D #comiccon #eaglecon2018 #eaglecon #artistalley #ztdraws

[hannibaltabu]

Post 2/4: my pal @annesplains is moderating a KILLER #animation panel @eagleconla on Saturday. #inexorable #eaglecon https://ift.tt/3cC0Tcv https://ift.tt/2IsSr1j

[mfgalaxy]

SISTERS OF TOMORROW: THE FIRST WOMEN OF SCIENCE FICTION (MF GALAXY 120)

HUGO-NOMINATED BOOK ON FEMINIST PIONEERS OF SF WRITING + EDITING, SEXIST BACKLASH THAT ENDED FEMINIST GOLDEN AGE OF SF, AND HOW WOMEN CHANGED SF EVEN WHILE DENIED THEIR PLACE IN THE CANON

LISTEN/DOWNLOAD

Science fiction has always been a male-dominated literary genre, right? All about steel braziers on submissive women serving—and servicing—Euro-American alpha males on a colonial power trip in space? Where all the authors and editors were men and women were allowed in only to tidy the office and deliver sandwiches and backrubs?

Guess again. According to my guests Lisa Yaszek and Patrick B. Sharp and their new book Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women Of Science Fiction, when it comes to women, the accepted history of SF is all wrong.

Lisa Yaszek is Professor and Associate Chair in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech, and past president of the Science Fiction Research Association. Her areas of expertise include science fiction, cultural history, critical race and gender studies, and science and technology studies. She’s written for numerous journals and is the author of books including Galactic Suburbia: Recovering Women’s Science Fiction.

Patrick Sharp is Professor and Chair of the Liberal Studies Faculty at the California State University at Los Angeles. He researches the cultural dimensions of and beliefs about science and technology, and how they cross-pollinate with beliefs about race and gender. He’s the author of Savage Perils: Racial Frontiers and Nuclear Apocalypse in American Culture, and he co-edited the anthology Darwin in Atlantic Cultures: Evolutionary Visions of Race, Gender, and Sexuality. He’s also the faculty chief of

EagleCon, CSULA's annual convention dedicated to diversity in comics and science fiction sponsored by the Art Directors Guild and the Costume Designers Guild.

In today’s episode of MF GALAXY, Yaszek and Sharpe discuss:

The key women authors and editors who blazed a comet trail across the sky of early science fiction and opened up the genre to what it could one day be

The early male editors who were allies in egalitarian SF creation

The sexist backlash that ended the Feminist Golden Age of SF, led by an editor whose name is still spoken with honour today, and

How women writers changed the content of SF, even while male editors were eliminating them from the canon that they were building

My guests spoke with me by Skype from their offices in Atlanta and Los Angeles on April 24, 2017.

Please note that the US publisher Resurrection House has just released my acclaimed novel The Alchemists of Kush about how boys lost at war fight betrayal and oppression to transform themselves and the world. If you'd like to buy the book, please get it from your favourite independent local bookstore or Resurrection House. Barring that, there's Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

LISTEN/DOWNLOAD

SUBSCRIBE FOR FREE ON iTUNES

SUBSCRIBE FOR FREE ON iHEARTRADIO

SUBSCRIBE FOR FREE ON PLAYER FM

SUBSCRIBE FOR FREE ON STITCHER

SUPPORT MF GALAXY ON PATREON

FOR MORE INFORMATION + LINKS

[topazstrange21]

my palisman master post!!

comic con season is starting up and I have stickers for sale!!!!

I’ll be in Fredicksburg VA this weekend for Eaglecon so stop on by <3

[eagleconcsula]

#WonderWoman vows to take care of #Superman as he loses his powers! #womenrock #EagleCon

[pbdotman]

Eaglecon! You'll never guess what we saw at Eagle Con! #cosplaylifedrawing #eaglecon #fun #strange #drawing #pierrebernardjr #television #adg https://www.instagram.com/p/Buz8_M1gaeH/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1a7ri8do99v51

[hannibaltabu]

Post 3/4 for @eagleconla: on Saturday @themcphailure goes head to head with @thatnerdsoul for #versuspanel! #inexorable #comics #eaglecon https://ift.tt/2VMSH3f https://ift.tt/2ImAH7R

[djssecretplans]

Moments before author Tananarive Due was presented with this Octavia E. Butler award at Eagle-Con, I snuck a quick pic of it. • • • #eaglecon #author #award #tananarivedue #eaglecon2016 #artists #awesomepeople #csula #trophy #books #recognition

[pbdotman]

Cosplay Life Drawing @ Cal State #eaglecon! #calstateuniversity #pierrebernardjr #cosplaylifedrawing #cosplay #adg #artdirectorguild #gallery800 https://www.instagram.com/p/BuzP9HmAHVt/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=16slotsyfd5pj