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I went to geek girl con this weekend
Nov. 18th, 2019 09:12 pmFun experience, and more like DragonCon , SF-ish cons, and gaming cons I've been to than media cons. I only stayed for the day, and most of it was taken up in prep for the panel I was on (Geek Elders Speak), the panel itself, questions after, and lunch.
The one panel that I really wanted to attend was the data statistics one, which was of course scheduled at the same time as the one I was on. So that was a disappointment, but I'll find the slides and enjoy looking through the data myself.
My panel tried to cram too many people and too many different things into a single hour: pro writers and fan fictions, what early zines were like, costuming in the early days, the first conventions, early star wars fandom, etc, etc, etc. My own subject areas were slash and vidding, and I really didn't have enough time to go into details. I did a brief history of vidding as we had slides taken from 'Pressure', but you know I can do an hour on that itself. And of course everyone asks the 'why slash and not femslash' question, and it takes awhile to go through my opinion on how that came to be, along with discussion of the way slash fandom started out as simply 'The Premise', and grew to what it is today.
Mostly I wanted a lot more time. Not for my other panelists, of course. I wanted that time for me. :)
I also need to refresh my femslash history, as I got a couple of questions on that. I mentioned that I heard of some in Star Trek, and thought that Blake's 7 had some femslash stories early on, only to be met with a 'Blake's 7? I've never heard of that. I guess I should research it' type of response.
History outreach, man. We gotta do more outreach.
It was fun, but as I said, I needed more time. It did make me excited for Escapade.
If you are interested in being a part of the Geek Elders Speak anthology about the influence of women in fandom from 1950-1985, you can connect with Jenni (one of my co-panelists) for details here:
forestpathbooks.com/geekeldersspeak/
The one panel that I really wanted to attend was the data statistics one, which was of course scheduled at the same time as the one I was on. So that was a disappointment, but I'll find the slides and enjoy looking through the data myself.
My panel tried to cram too many people and too many different things into a single hour: pro writers and fan fictions, what early zines were like, costuming in the early days, the first conventions, early star wars fandom, etc, etc, etc. My own subject areas were slash and vidding, and I really didn't have enough time to go into details. I did a brief history of vidding as we had slides taken from 'Pressure', but you know I can do an hour on that itself. And of course everyone asks the 'why slash and not femslash' question, and it takes awhile to go through my opinion on how that came to be, along with discussion of the way slash fandom started out as simply 'The Premise', and grew to what it is today.
Mostly I wanted a lot more time. Not for my other panelists, of course. I wanted that time for me. :)
I also need to refresh my femslash history, as I got a couple of questions on that. I mentioned that I heard of some in Star Trek, and thought that Blake's 7 had some femslash stories early on, only to be met with a 'Blake's 7? I've never heard of that. I guess I should research it' type of response.
History outreach, man. We gotta do more outreach.
It was fun, but as I said, I needed more time. It did make me excited for Escapade.
If you are interested in being a part of the Geek Elders Speak anthology about the influence of women in fandom from 1950-1985, you can connect with Jenni (one of my co-panelists) for details here:
forestpathbooks.com/geekeldersspeak/
