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desperanceSo. We could call that a questionnaire.
There being much banging about in the bathroom, I felt that creative engagement was probably not likely today: so I have finally done what I've been threatening to do all year, and filled in an application to the Arts Council for funding to go to NZ and Aussiecon. I am not at all expecting a positive response in these straitened days, but it seems to me important to make them turn me down. If they're going to be prejudiced against genre, we should make them be actively prejudiced, and not do their work for them by standing mute where we should be shouting loudly.
There. That's a manifesto.
(Also, trying to describe established SF cons to a readership of arts bureaucrats whom we assume never to have attended one? This is quite a fun way to pass a morning...)
There being much banging about in the bathroom, I felt that creative engagement was probably not likely today: so I have finally done what I've been threatening to do all year, and filled in an application to the Arts Council for funding to go to NZ and Aussiecon. I am not at all expecting a positive response in these straitened days, but it seems to me important to make them turn me down. If they're going to be prejudiced against genre, we should make them be actively prejudiced, and not do their work for them by standing mute where we should be shouting loudly.
There. That's a manifesto.
(Also, trying to describe established SF cons to a readership of arts bureaucrats whom we assume never to have attended one? This is quite a fun way to pass a morning...)