Various Things
Jun. 12th, 2018 09:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caitri1) Amazon is in talks to save Lucifer and my fingers are crossed SO HARD.
2) My Academic Sister and I sent off a book proposal a few weeks ago and we heard back--they are "delighted" with the project and want to see the mss when we have it. Huzzahs!!!
3) I got a chapter for a forthcoming collection back for only minor edits, which was an immense relief.
3b) I SO overbooked myself this summer with deadlines and such. I don't know how I always do that, except that I always do. (Pretty sure it's my inability to say "no." But still.)
4) After much leeriness, I bought Moira Greyland's book The Last Closet: The Dark Side of Avalon, an abuse survivor's memoir of her parents, SFF author Marion Zimmer Bradley and her husband Walter Breen. It's a harrowing read, and I'm glad to have it to read against Bradley's work; I still love her books, but I think art with problematic artists has to be in dialogue with one another for the reader/viewer. (Also it helps that the money goes to Greyland and not MZB's estate.) That said, while I am in sympathy with Greyland as a survivor, I think it's problematic af that she conflates all queer people with her abusers, and waaay too often she goes into anti-feminist and fat-phobic rhetoric when talking about her parents, SFF culture, paganism, and so on. But I also get that it comes from a profoundly fucked up place in her head as a survivor, so more than anything I just pity her.
2) My Academic Sister and I sent off a book proposal a few weeks ago and we heard back--they are "delighted" with the project and want to see the mss when we have it. Huzzahs!!!
3) I got a chapter for a forthcoming collection back for only minor edits, which was an immense relief.
3b) I SO overbooked myself this summer with deadlines and such. I don't know how I always do that, except that I always do. (Pretty sure it's my inability to say "no." But still.)
4) After much leeriness, I bought Moira Greyland's book The Last Closet: The Dark Side of Avalon, an abuse survivor's memoir of her parents, SFF author Marion Zimmer Bradley and her husband Walter Breen. It's a harrowing read, and I'm glad to have it to read against Bradley's work; I still love her books, but I think art with problematic artists has to be in dialogue with one another for the reader/viewer. (Also it helps that the money goes to Greyland and not MZB's estate.) That said, while I am in sympathy with Greyland as a survivor, I think it's problematic af that she conflates all queer people with her abusers, and waaay too often she goes into anti-feminist and fat-phobic rhetoric when talking about her parents, SFF culture, paganism, and so on. But I also get that it comes from a profoundly fucked up place in her head as a survivor, so more than anything I just pity her.
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Date: 2018-06-13 04:56 am (UTC)*hugs you. a lot*
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Date: 2018-06-13 05:16 am (UTC)I feel like given as much as I've written about MZB academically, I had a ~responsibility to read it, and even so I felt kind of dirty as well as frustrated. Greyland has capital-I Issues; she also goes into depth talking about life as a survivor, and the books she's read with her therapist (that bit was actually kind of helpful for me) and descriptions of her time spent in the hospital for psychiatric issues and so on. She also talks a lot about some of the people she grew up with who were abused and who killed themselves, or died in poor health and so on. TL;DR it's triggering, it's depressing, and it's frustrating that the scars she bears are projected onto others.