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alothian

  1. I met Gretchen Treu and Jackie Lee at my first #Wiscon. So proud to see them on stage and running the con next year!
  2. @Annaleen I have one in my room, if you still need it by the end of #GOHTiptree
  3. #Wiscon now Hairston is accepting the Tiptree Award for Redwood and Wildfire; introducing a gallery of ancestors for the story
  4. #Wiscon Notkin: remember it is easier to be generous with those we know; the privilege we hold conditions where our contributions go.
  5. #Wiscon Notkin: i try not to make gratitude a condition of the gift, especially a secret one.
  6. #Wiscon Notkin: taking is something we're all likely to need skill at, and doing it makes us stronger.
  7. #Wiscon Notkin: America, the land of imaginary individualism... Where ppl think they do it all themselves, yet often take from those w less
  8. #Wiscon Notkin: other things we struggle with giving and taking: time, attention. How to cut ourselves slack?
  9. #Wiscon Notkin: money is the easiest thing to give, the hardest to take. Speaking of anti foreclosure activism and shame
  10. #Wiscon Notkin on generosity: to give help takes two, and accepting needs its own generosity
  11. #Wiscon Debbie Notkin now giving her guest of honor speech. She had suggested making all attendees GoH, speeches by lottery
  12. #wiscon Hairston: much sff did not disturb empire's realism; I had to write myself in, write an escape
  13. #WisCon Hairston speaking of her love of anti-realism; quoting Brecht on art as a hammer to shape reality