IAFA con: Gender and Sexuality in the Fantastic

Since some of us were whining at the weekend about it's too difficult to get to WisCon, I thought I'd remind people of another interesting one: IAFA, The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, which this year is focusing on

Representing Self and Other:
Gender and Sexuality in the Fantastic

Fort Lauderdale, March 14-18, 2007, more details at http://www.iafa.org/

It looks like a very interesting con, and I'm not just saying that because Someone was threatening to write a paper on me for it. Looking at the draft programme, there's a lot there that would interest the people who go to WisCon. And fanficcers, and paranormal romance fans, and...

Speaking of gender...

Making Light has discovered the Gender Genie, and is doing the usual fluorosphere thing with it:
http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/008687.html

ETA: corrected the url (thank you, watervole).

sulking

Oh, and I am Officially Sulking. Rascafarians might be able to guess why. :-)

(I suppose I should be grateful the term "fangfucker" has not yet made an appearance in the relevant thread... :^)