My acquaintance Danielle Sucher asked: Friends! What's your gender? & cis folks especially, how did you figure it out? I'm a cisgender woman, or at least I think so. I can't properly prove it to …

In addition to Randomized Dystopia, I've made some additional things recently that I don't think I linked to here. Last year, with Alex Bayley, I co-wrote an article for opensource.com about Growstuff and how open …

To what extent do you think of your open stuff contributions as gifts? Does this match up with your sense of your communities on the caring-to-combative spectrum? To you, what are the manners surrounding giving …

More book reviews from the past year or so! I am still catching up and am not done catching up. Up Against It by MJ Locke. You can read the first 5 chapters free online. …

Now that I'm not all arrrrgh I just want to launch this thing I'll talk a little more about why I made Randomized Dystopia: to help us think about how dystopian fiction (and real repression) …

Are you tired of the same old dystopias? Why not write about tyrannies that deny different rights?Try Randomized Dystopia!I see a lot of repetitive dystopian fiction about denying people (often teenagers) the right to free …

I have the best spouse. I spent basically the entire afternoon and evening waylaid by an inexplicable short-term illness (I would blame food poisoning except I can't work out the causality). Leonard's super solicitousness extended …

I have been to WisCon three times (2009, 2010, 2011) and I am going again this year, yay! If you enjoy my writing, you might like WisCon, and -- especially if you've never tried it …

As you may have seen if you follow the Ada Initiative's blog, I've left the TAI's advisory board (which I joined in 2011). I've also left its board of directors, which I joined a little …

I'm most of the way through Beloved by Toni Morrison -- my thanks to Debbie Notkin for causing me to take a deep breath and open it again. Reading it now, I'm grateful for all …