I respond to issues of gender parity here with a focus on efforts to correct the balance. I think my reviews and interviews of Australian …
Essays
Meg Mundell: Gender issues in publishing
Aurealis Award nominee, author of Black Glass and former interviewee of Dark Matter (see issue 3) and interivewer (see Justin Evans‘ interview), Meg Mundell responds …
Nicole Murphy: Why we need women writers
Nicole Murphy: Why we need women writers Nicole Murphy has been a primary school teacher, bookstore owner, journalist and checkout chick. She grew up reading …
Jen Mills: On Books and Gender
Jennifer Mills is the author of the novels Gone and The Diamond Anchor. A collection of her short stories The Rest is Weight will be …
Alexandra Pierce on the AWW challenge
Alexandra Pierce is a teacher, a reader, a reviewer and a feminist. Her blog can be found at Randomly Yours, Alex, and she is one …
Another woman bites the dust at DC
by Nalini Haynes If you have any interest in comics and you’ve been on the web today, you’ve probably heard that Gail Simone, writer of …
Christmas is coming – sexist toys encounter!
by Nalini Haynes If you’ve been into any big toy store in the last several years, you’ll notice that the girls’ aisle is mostly bright …
Libraries: use them or lose them
By Nalini Haynes For most of my life I’ve read books from libraries. When I was growing up, the library in the small town of …
Fake Followers Frenzy
Fake followers on twitter are a thing by Nalini Haynes That’s right, people can BUY fake followers to massage their numbers. I’ve been on twitter now …
Dark Matter’s monst- er- minion
I have created a monster. My very own monster. Once upon a time Dark Matter was mine! Mine! ALL MINE! I recruited help from the …
A world of science fiction, speculation and fantasy
Dear Nalini, Last week I received a guided tour of the Merril collection of science fiction, speculation and fantasy, part of the Toronto public library. …
Fly or flush?
The other night on twitter, I saw this post Amanda wants to teach her cat to fly everydayportrait.blogspot.com/2011/08/amanda… — P ArtMagenta (@PeopleMagenta) November 10, 2012 …
A troll too far
A troll too far… Once upon a time there was a poor little troll who got up every evening, put on his loin cloth …
Convention standards
Convention standards… In the beginning Having spent most of my life enjoying science fiction and fantasy with little if any awareness of ‘fandom’ and the …
Living in the future: conventions
Anyone would think that I’d been talking to Armageddon organisers in my campaign to bring conventions into the future. I’ve talked to whomever would listen …