{"id":26412,"date":"2021-11-23T05:14:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T13:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rachelswirsky.com\/?p=2787"},"modified":"2021-11-23T05:14:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T13:14:16","slug":"more-on-milehicon-speech-and-panel-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=26412","title":{"rendered":"More on MileHiCon: Speech and Panel Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Last month, I posted a bit about my experience as a guest of honor at MileHiCon in Denver this year, including an excerpt from the &#8220;speech&#8221; I gave at the opening ceremonies\u00a0and some thoughts about my panels.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/rachelswirsky\">my Patreon<\/a> this month, I&#8217;m sharing more of my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/58881472\">MileHiCon materials<\/a>, starting with the complete, unexcerpted text of my &#8220;speech.&#8221; Since the version I read at the convention was shortened, this is never-before-seen material for everyone except my husband (who served as my captive audience in our hotel room). <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/11\/72x72\/1f609.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude09\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also included my extensive panel notes with thoughts about things like third-sex roles in non-Western cultures\u00a0and weird creatures from the Cambrian explosion with five eyes and vacuum mouths. (And this very creepy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rB5IsOqYxFY\">video<\/a> about the hypothesis that vertebrate heads are on sideways!\u00a0)\u00a0Plus, recommendations for awesome material like Beyond the Binary, an anthology about non-binary characters\u00a0edited by Lee (then Brit) Mandelo, and Alien Sex, an anthology of short stories about alien&#8230; well, sex, edited by Ellen Datlow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>All of my Patreon content&#8211;including a substantial offering once a month of something like an original essay, poem or short story&#8211;is available to all my patrons, no matter how much or little they contribute. Every contribution is greatly appreciated and makes a big difference to supporting my writing career!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>I hope everyone&#8217;s had a lovely November. For folks celebrating this weekend, have a great holiday! (And for those who aren&#8217;t, but get a few extra days off, have a great weekend!)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, I posted a bit about my experience as a guest of honor at MileHiCon in Denver this year, including an excerpt from the &ldquo;speech&rdquo; I gave at the opening ceremonies&nbsp;and some thoughts about my panels. On my Patreon &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/rachelswirsky.com\/2021\/11\/more-on-milehicon-speech-and-panel-reflections\/\">Continue reading <span>&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=26412\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[280,173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-milehicon","category-patreon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26413,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26412\/revisions\/26413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}