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Book Review: Rediscovery: Science Fiction by Women Volume 2 (1953-1957)
Book Review: Rediscovery: Science Fiction by Women Volume 2 (1953-1957)
Book Review: Rediscovery: Science Fiction by Women Volume 2 (1953-1957) edited by Gideon Marcus
As the introduction by Janice L. Newman points out, women have written science fiction all along. The percentage of them getting published at any given time in the magazines and books waxed and waned, but they were always there. In the period of the 1950s covered in this volume, they averaged about 1…
On Disability and on Facebook? Uncle Sam Wants to Watch What You Post
First the surveillance state came for the terrorists, and I did not speak out—because I am not a terrorist.
Then it came for those who appear vagely Muslim, and I did not speak out— because I am not a Muslim.
Then it came for impoverished minorities and dissidents, and I did not speak out—because I am white and not a dissident.
And now, Trump and the Republican Party want to expand use of the surveillance state against people with disabilities.
I say this because a lot of Americans believe that the surveillance state–or a form of police state, for that matter–doesn’t exist in this country; that is a myth held by those fortunate enough to not be one of the millions of people who experience America as a surveillance state and/or a police state.
It is incumbent upon all of us to agitate against the further growth of the surveillance state not only for our own interest but for that of our brothers and sisters whose lives are adversely affected by its existence and perpetual growth.
