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10 Nov, 9 tweets, 4 min read
@WisConSF3 I first got to know about Wisconsin through a science fiction book group at Borders (back in the early 90s). I went for a beer on the Mendota terrace with some of the book group members, and suddenly I was in charge of organizing films for Wiscon20 in 1996.
.@WisConSF3 It was my privilege to organize films for that particular Wiscon, because the Guest of honor was Ursula LeGuin. I love her books, but there was something more. On the buses in Madison ,in the early 1990s, there were posters naming famous Americans with mental illness.
.@WisconSF3 On that poster on the public buses I'm Madison, listing famous people who had issues with mental health issues was the name of the writer Ursula LeGuin. It was my honor to help organize a convention honoring her.
.@WisConSF3 When I started working on my dissertation full time, I had to eliminate all my organizing/community activities. So I sacrificed my younger sister Jennifer to be the Convention Chair in 2002. She is really smart and great at organizing. (A bit bossy too).
.@WisconSF3 Since the 1970s, Wiscon has been the world's foremost feminist convention. Other 44 years, the convention panels and discussions have dealt with gender, race, ethnicity, class, transgender issues, as well as societal and scientific transformations.
.@WisconSF3 Over the years there were difficult conversations as white feminists (some of whom were male) dealt with issues of race and white privilege. But those discussions happened. I haven't been able to attend in years, but I know other important discussions happened.
.@WisconSF3 @nasa @GMWatch Maybe you should include the many writers, readers, organizers and attendees of Wiscon what their views are on new scientific developments. You are likely to get thoughtful, intelligent answers. And yes, there is feminist science fiction.
.@WisconSF3 And if you want to know what science fiction I have read in the last 25 years, you could begin by checking the list of Tiptree award winners along with Tiptree nominees. Feminism didn't begin yesterday. And I wasn't born yesterday.
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@Snowden @wikileaks In the summer of 2016, a group of people hacked my desktop computer, my Samsung tablet, and my phone. Everything I have done on my phone and on my tablet has been recorded since at least Summer of 2016. 1/
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@snowden @wikileaks @nsa @fbi @cia @amnesty I think I understand why this group of people doxed me and put a spotlight on me. I had thought I was doxed by Monsanto and Breitbart, and or Bristol Meyer Squibb. That is actually probable.
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Maybe those white people publicly "recognize" their priviledge because they have been activists for 40 years and have worked side by side with many different kinds of people. Also, where do you work, who pays your salary, and who is funding your remarks?
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I am truly disabled. And, at this time, I'm not being paid to be a teacher or a professor. When you're an activist, there is no grade. No number, no medal, no letter grade. You measure suces by legislation that is passed, people who are helped, helpful environmental changes. 1/
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I am always grateful to the activists who came before me, in past generations, and my elders who are still alive. They helped lay the foundation for civil rights, gender equity, sustainable agricultute, clean water, clean energy. 3/
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Yup. I am very much against CAFOS, large feed lots where animals are crammed together and stuffed with chemical and hormones. But humans are omnivores, which means for thousands of years they have gotten some protein from animals. We just don't need animal protein every day. 1/
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Here's an idea, why don't you do a six part series on the anti-trust laws of the late 1800s, and early 1900s. Each week you could explain the structures of the American economy: actual competition and innovation, olicharchies, monopolies, and the cost to consumers of monopolies.
Each week you could give a historical example of a United States company that has lied, cheated, colluded, conspired, and killed in order to avoid actual innovating and doing anything new or helpful to people and the planet.
I could help you. I took an economics course in the spring of 1993 called The Structure of the American Economy, and I still have the textbook. Of course you should pay me for my intellectual ideas, and my creative content. There are laws about stealing other people's work.
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