Guest Post Roundup

My thanks to everyone who contributed to this year’s series of guest posts about representation in SF/F — both the authors of the essays and the commenters who joined the conversation. Between the seventeen posts and two bonus reprints I’ll be announcing later, it looks like Invisible 2 will have significantly more content than its predecessor, which is sweet. I’ve got contracts back from almost everyone involved, and I’m still hoping for a mid-May release.

In the meantime, here’s a roundup of all the guest posts from this year:

• Exponentially Hoping – Merc Rustad
• Fat Chicks in SFF – Alis Franklin
• I’m Not Broken – Annalee Flower Horne
• Discovering the Other – John G. Hartness
• Too Niche – Lauren Jankowski
• Nobody’s Sidekick: Intersectionality in Protagonists – S. L. Huang
• The Danger of the False Narrative – LaShawn Wanak
• Next Year in Jerusalem – Gabrielle Harbowy
• No More Dried Up Spinsters – Nancy Jane Moore
• False Expectations – Matthew Alan Thyer
• I am not Hispanic, I am Puerto Rican – Isabel Schechter
• Breaking Mirrors – Diana Pho
• Text, Subtext, and Pieced-Together Lives – Angelia Sparrow
• Lost in the Margins – Sarah Chorn
• Not Your Mystical Indian – Jessica McDonald
• Alien of Extraordinary Ability? Migration in SFF and in my Life – Bogi Takács
• What Do We Look Like in Your Mind? – Kat Tanaka Okopnik

I received more than 60 pitches this year, which means I had to turn down a lot of good and important potential essays. Here are links to several of those essays that people went ahead and posted on their own sites.

• The Victim Narrative and Heroic Women, by Nina Niskanen
• Scars, Symbols, and Stereotypes, by Libby Block
• We Aren’t the Dragons You’re Looking For: The Inhuman and the Asexual in SF&F, by Whimbrel
• What We Have Here Is A Failure To Appreciate [Yourself] (Or Why I Am Psyched To Be Speaking At C2E2), by Jennifer Cross
• The Portrayal of Victims in SF/F, by Raven Oak

Thanks again. These are important conversations, and speaking for myself, I continue to learn a great deal from all of you.