As a heads up for anyone who will be in the area that weekend, I'm holding a yuri panel this year at ConBust, my college's annual geekdom con. The time and date haven't been set yet but I'll post them as soon as I know!
Here's a list of the panels that have been confirmed for this year (they aren't on the website since the schedule isn't finished yet, but the Panels Committee gave me a hearty thumbs up for publicizing it):
Anime 101
Anthropology in Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Audiobooks
Bad Endings to Good Books
Believable Villains
Building a Better Mousetrap: Believable Sci-Fi Gadgets
Character Building 101
Characters and Creators: Women in Video Games
Children's Fairytales
Culture in the Round: Building Workable Worlds, Civilizations, and Cultures
Dragons Are Awesome
Editing
Faeries
Fanfiction Writing Roundtable
Geeks in Love
Gender Bending in Sci-Fi and Fantasy
Hero, Protagonist
High Fantasy
How Magic Works: Constructing a workable magic system
Interstellar Governments
LGBTQIPAOMGWTF: Queer Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Anime
Mutant Ninja Nipple Eating Starfish (B-Movies- yeah!!!!)
Religion in Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Romance, Eroticism, and the Demon Lover
Running a Roleplaying Game
Scenes from a Hat: "Three things" stories for grown ups
Star Wars
Steampunk 101
Suspension of Disbelief
The Geek Canon (Great works that every good geek should know)
The Publishing Industry
Urban Fantasy
Utopia/Dystopia
Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Writing Believable Fight Scenes
Xenobiology (Bring an Ewok, get a t-shirt)
Young Adult Fiction
Yuri Panel (a.k.a. The best panel ever.)
Jackpot, Tiger: Women in Superhero Comics
Can't wait! I always have fun doing this panel, and I know that the staff at ConBust will be easy to work with. (Especially since they know how to label their rooms and none of them are tittering man-children who hit on the panelists. Hahaha.) Again, I'll post about my panel more when there's more to post. ^_^
And tomorrow's the last day of winter break! I'm taking a direct flight up north tomorrow- not too early, thankfully.
Some of these panels sound really interesting. Hope you have fun, and good luck with your yuri panel!
ReplyDeleteThanks Erin! :-) This year I'm going to make more of an effort to visit other panels.
ReplyDeleteThat's an impressive mix of diverse topics that ConBust is holding.
ReplyDeleteWhat I found interesting about ConBurst was it's mission statement, something that I've never seen or heard of before.
Hope your panel goes well, hope you have fun there too.
@P.S.- Thanks! ^^
ReplyDeleteThe students who run ConBust take a lot of pride in the (as you noted, unique) point of their mission statement. (Although given our college's "Yay, feminism!" slant, it's to be expected.) I'm glad you noticed it.