We ran into Timmi Duchamp, the publisher, at the Minneapolis airport. We were all on the same connecting flight to Madison for WisCon 33. So we got to see the finished book.

Forgive the crappy iPhone picture here. I’ll replace it with a better one of Cynthia holding her contributor copy after she gets it in the mail.

Duchamp’s imprint, Aqueduct Press, has published a volume of essays related to each year’s convention, starting with WisCon 30. Lst year at WisCon 32, the big conversations were about race, fandom, and feminism as well as trolling. Cynthia’s essay is a response to the troll who showed up and trashed the people on a panel she moderated last year.

If the troll wanted people to shut up about feminism, race, and gender, they failed since Sylvia Kelso, an Australian fan and writer, will edit the WisCon 33 volume.

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As read, the panel description sounds rather wank-tastic, however, given the background of my co-panelists, I'm sure we can discuss more interesting things:

1. The development of 'BitterCon' and other meta-convention activities.
2. The role of LJ in programming (thinking of ktempest and coffeeandink's sprints to develop program proposals from a PoC perspective.)
3. LJ as ad-hoc programming space for continued discussion of items (such as "But the Master has a Black and Decker drill.")
4. LJ as immune system (responding to the OSBP, and organizing people on the ground to handle harassing situations.)
5. LJ as pre-convention coordination (are you going, I need a room, I can share a ride, what panels are you on, what panels are you going to, and what the hell is with that panel?)
6. LJ as permanent floating WisCon.

I didn't write the program item description (if you did, please clarify your intent in the comments.)