#WisCon May 23-25 2025, online only
A feminist sci-fi and fantasy convention
$25 or pay what you can
Visit https://wiscon2025.sched.com
Guests of honor: ANDREA HAIRSTON; NAOMI KRITZER
Want to volunteer? Email Personnel@sf3.org

I'll be attending #WisCon, the oldest and most well-known #feminist #SFF #conference online on May 23-26. This year, it's online-only, and it's also "pay what you can." The standard price is $25, but you can choose to pay less (they recommend $5, but even $0 is OK) if that works for you. I think a high attendance to help demonstrate that people value online conferences benefits us all.
#books #scienceFiction #fantasy #literature #women #gender #LGBTQIA #feminism
https://wiscon2025.sched.com/

#WisCon needs a Recruiter!

Use your marketing skill to dazzle new volunteers! You’ll coordinate with Communications to draft and schedule open recruitment calls, like the one you’re reading now! This takes 2-4 hours per call, 1-3 calls per week. Work-parties possible. Contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: Recruiter)

https://wiscon.net/open-volunteer-positions/

VOLUNTEER AT WISCON!
#WisCon is an all-volunteer organization and we have a variety of positions available if you'd like to help put on WisCONline 2025. The easiest way to feel connected with community is to volunteer! Reach out to personnel@sf3.org for more information.
This page has open volunteer positions: https://wiscon.net/open-volunteer-positions/

WisCONLINE 2025 Call for Academic Papers

#WisCon invites papers/ panels engaging with Palestine & Gaza, for example works listed in Sonia Sulaiman’s #ReadPalestinianSpecFic reading list, edited volume Thyme Travellers (2024). Lots more detail here: https://wiscon.net/programming/academic/

REMINDER to ARTISTS!
Though #WisCon 2025 is online only this year, we're still helping artists showcase their work. We're accepting 40 artists who have online stores to display their work at WisCONLINE. Application deadline 3/1/2025. Details at the link.

https://wiscon.net/2025/01/09/wisconline-art-show-applications-are-open/

Please take the #WisCon programming survey, to let us know what kind of programming you would like to see at WisCONLINE 2025, and how you would like to participate.

WisCon is renewing our call for WisCONLINE 2025 programming! The original deadline was 1/31, but it has been extended to 3/1.
https://wiscon.net/2025/01/09/wisconline-programming-survey-opens/

#WisCon IT VOLUNTEER needed: Experience with server infrastructure? (LAMP stack knowledge good but not required) Help with server migration project. For more information, please contact personnel@sf3.org (subject: IT volunteer).

https://wiscon.net/2025/01/26/volunteer-needed-it/

Just spent 4.5 hours in a Wiscon Strategic Planning meeting and I am incredibly hopeful and empowered as a result.

Hello!

I would like to recruit you!!

Specifically, #Wiscon, the intersectional feminist SF/F convention I love, is taking a gap year to reorganize and recruit. (We need to operate without burning people out like fuses at Christmas.)

But that is NOT what I want to recruit you for!

Here is the newsletter detailing what we are looking for at this time, namely some specific area knowledge.

https://mailchi.mp/sf3/wiscon-panel-suggestions-deadline-jan-13642699

All the details are in the newsletter, and thank you for taking a look.

I'm @boxofdelights, and this is my #introduction.
I love reading, especially #sff. I struggle with #SocialAnxiety, but I belong to three #BookGroup s and #WisCon. I #garden in Fort Collins, Colorado. I have two #dogs and two grown children. I attended the Roeper School. I am deaf in one ear.

I'm interested in #gardening, #NativePlants, #permaculture, #rewilding, #HomeGrownNationalPark, #GrowYourOwn food, #compost, #soil, #CarbonFarming, #Bookstodon, #StoryTelling, and #unschooling

I understand we have new people here?

Okay!

I am a #retired air traffic controller. #Queer #disabled #feminist #autistic #Luddite. #Intersectionality or GTFO.

You may know me from #Wiscon, #CONvergance, #AirTrafficControl, #Minnesota #fandom, #Dreamwidth, or #Tumblr. Or my #published #editing of #Award-nominated work such as Chicks Dig Comics or Apex #magazine

I enjoy #gardening, #fiber #arts, #knitting, #SFF, #genre #fiction, #history, #progressive #activism, and #KPop.

When Sumana gives you (or, well, to be honest, your juggling circus kid) lemons, I guess you take them back home halfway across the continent and join them with your own backyard lemons and make Otherwise Lemonade...

“Why can’t we hold #Wiscon in a TARDIS?”

Machine learning, A.I., Big Data… all applied statistics, per Ted Chiang [and he talked about it at #wiscon a few years ago]. How else to contextualize? #wiscon46

At WisCon, having lunch on the capitol square, and the person playing tunes on the marimba down the street is currently belting out Zombie.

By the way, fuck Capitalism with its financial precarity and constant anxiety. #wiscon

It took me a while to realize that I love music vids, and just how bonkers it is that #WisCon has a six-hour block of them WITH a content warning spreadsheet as well as full subtitles. Thank you @WisConSF3 for the hard beautiful work. #wiscon46

Hey, I am trying to see the panels I would like to go to in #wissched , and they don’t show up in MySchedule. Are the hearts just for the leaderboard? #WisCon #WisCon46