One of the highlights of WisCon is the presentation of the James Tiptree Award for "science fiction or fantasy that expands or explores our understanding of gender." The winner gets chocolate, a tiara, and a check for $1000.
The winners at WisCon 37 were Caitlin R Kiernan for The Drowning Girl and Kiini Ibura Salaam for Ancient, Ancient. Ms Kiernan couldn't be there. Ms Salaam's acceptance speech brought me to tears. Everyone else at the table where I sat was in tears as well.
Ms Salaam has a guest post at SF Signal called Doing What We Can, based on her acceptance speech. She talks about her struggle to find the time to finish Ancient, Ancient. How we need to focus on what we can do and not dwell on what we can't do. It's good and true and well worth reading.
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I had a very similar reaction and keep thinking about the injunction to focus on what I can do.
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