Year-End Round-Up Post
Dec. 31st, 2018 12:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caitri2018 was insanely stressful, but was personally quite good for me. I got a big national award, I got a book proposal accepted, I did a consulting gig, I got a new job (!!!!!), and will shortly have a new house (!). That's .... a lot, holy fuck. Which is funny considering I spend a lot of time fretting and feeling insecure and so on, because I have issues.
Publications out this year:
* "Gendered Spheres: Theorizing Space in the English Printing House" at The Seventeenth Century.
* "The Problematic Fan Girl: Cassandra Clare's Gendered Revisions in The Mortal Instruments Series" in Gender Warriors: Reading Contemporary Urban Fantasy.
* With Rukmini Pande, "Not So Star-Spangled: Examining Race, Privilege, and Problems in MCU's Captain America Fandom" in The Darker Side of Slash Fan Fiction.
* "Die Young, Stay Pretty" in Outside/In: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Finally, this was also a challenging year emotionally because of the absurdity of humanity and politics. In real time we get to watch the ongoing war between our worst and our best selves, and it is exhausting and frightening and tear-inducing. That said, I continue to hope for the best. It comforts me that no atrocity, no absurdity has gone unchallenged. We are clearly not ready to just lay down and die and let others have their way. We will fight for what's right. It is both all we can do, and also a lot.
So, in the new year, I wish you all: Peace, love, happiness, and courage to stand for what's right.
Publications out this year:
* "Gendered Spheres: Theorizing Space in the English Printing House" at The Seventeenth Century.
* "The Problematic Fan Girl: Cassandra Clare's Gendered Revisions in The Mortal Instruments Series" in Gender Warriors: Reading Contemporary Urban Fantasy.
* With Rukmini Pande, "Not So Star-Spangled: Examining Race, Privilege, and Problems in MCU's Captain America Fandom" in The Darker Side of Slash Fan Fiction.
* "Die Young, Stay Pretty" in Outside/In: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Finally, this was also a challenging year emotionally because of the absurdity of humanity and politics. In real time we get to watch the ongoing war between our worst and our best selves, and it is exhausting and frightening and tear-inducing. That said, I continue to hope for the best. It comforts me that no atrocity, no absurdity has gone unchallenged. We are clearly not ready to just lay down and die and let others have their way. We will fight for what's right. It is both all we can do, and also a lot.
So, in the new year, I wish you all: Peace, love, happiness, and courage to stand for what's right.
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Date: 2019-01-01 11:34 am (UTC)It's a year of happy dances and comforting hugs. Hugs for all that crap that is out there. But you made a good point about how things have not gone unchallenged, and I think the Powers-That-Be will find that they have woken up a sleeping giant. That the reaction to their horrible actions and policies has angered and empowered a group that won't lie down and take it any more. A group that is standing up to them...women. I'm hopeful for the new year because of that.
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Date: 2019-01-01 06:00 pm (UTC)I really really hope this is a year for good things for all!