Sumana

My friend Deepa, an artist in India, is crowdfunding for SatRangaM, India's biggest queer theatre festival.

I'm speaking, performing, moderating, and otherwise participating at WisCon 48 (WisCon 2026) this weekend!

looking forward to the next episode of Pluribus starting to read the scifi mystery Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite making note of the upcoming Grolier Club exhibition on the mechanization of printing: "The Second Printing Revolution: Invention of Mass Me…

Happened across this Bluesky post embedding a TikTok of a vid about Al Gore "losing" the 2000 election to George W.

Over in this MetaFilter thread I've been going on and on about: the books use the medium of prose well, including unreliable narration; how can the TV series adapt that?

An interesting MetaFilter comment on complicity in Butler's work. .... in various books where people are forced into bad bargains because the other choice is quite literally to die.

I am on Bluesky and sometimes I go look at denise 's feed there.

Belatedly realized I'd already made a front-page post to MetaFilter recommending a short story that I already recommended to you but without much fanfare!

Am trying out this way of thinking: If I were the tallest person in a group, I'd be the one who helps grab things off high shelves.

My spouse and I are watching season 6 of The Dragon Prince right now and I find it likely my frequent complaints are reducing his enjoyment so I will instead summarize them here (we just watched episode 2) Nearly none of these people are managing communic…

I could use some tips on how to be a better event host when some participants are acting unusually anxious.

If you live someplace where there is a regular place a lot of people go on weekends, like a farmer's market or a popular park, maybe there is something of a fringe or liminal area where sometimes people set up folding tables and sell stuff or campaign.

My friend Jacob is offering: Free digital security checkups for people/organizations concerned about the incoming US government Anyone is eligible for this - whatever your concern.

(A) Stand-up to Protect Our Vote: standupstandup.tech I'm running a fundraiser for the Election Protection Hotline, 1-866-OUR-VOTE.

I thought this when I first watched it, and I still think this: it is fascinating to imagine a US resident from, say, January 2011 watching the Celebrating America special from January 20, 2021 and trying to work out what had happened in the intervening t…

Kamala Harris's campaign sent out a press release saying, among other things, After watching Fox News this morning we only have one question, is Donald Trump ok?

Caught COVID for the 1st time Am slowly recovering.

The 1980s action movie Streets of Fire is, in the US, up on YouTube in its entirety to watch free-with-ads right now.

I'm watching "Making The Cut" (the Project Runway-like show that is on Amazon Video).

“queer not as being about who you’re having sex with (that can be a dimension of it); but queer as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live.”

I've gotten into Taskmaster (UK) recently, subsequent to previous fannish dives into the Dropout game show Game Changer, Nathan Fielder's The Rehearsal, and The Colbert Report.

From Emily McCombs in a Slate advice column last year: In recovery circles, I’ve heard this described as “going to the hardware store for oranges.”

I'm writing a blog post over at my name blog about how open source maintainers can think about trusting new co-maintainers, what that trust entails, how to check for trustworthiness, etc.

My mother died this year, after a long decline in her health, and I was one of the main people who helped take care of her.

Haven't been keeping up on my Dreamwidth or Fediverse/Mastodon feeds since early October.