Lady Business

Hey everyone! How was your weekend? Cool, cool, ours was pretty quiet except for this one thing:



WE WON A HUGO AWARD!

Ira and Susan represented us at Worldcon 77 in Dublin (we're not saying there's a connection, we're just saying that we're currently two for two on Ira and Susan going to Worldcons and us getting awards), and it was an honour and a pleasure to be there. Thank you to everyone who nominated or voted for us, and to everyone who has been part of Lady Business and our community!

We'd also like to thank Galactic Journey, Journey Planet, Nerds of a Feather, and Quick Sip Reviews. It was an honour to be in the same category as you all!

The text of our speech can be found below:

( Read more... )

We at Lady Business are excited to announce that we have accepted a place on the final ballot for Best Fanzine in the 2016 Hugo Awards.

This is a strange year to be be a Hugo finalist. If you've been following the Hugo Awards, you know that the last couple of years have been controversial. We prefer not to dwell on the controversy here, but if you’re unfamiliar and would like a summary, Fanlore has a good overview. After the 2016 finalists were announced, one of the original five Fanzine finalists, Black Gate, withdrew from consideration. The Hugo administrators contacted us to let us know that we were next in the voting tally, and offered us the open slot. After some conflicted deliberation, we decided that we wanted to acknowledge the people who voted for us in the nomination phase, and we accepted a place on the final list.

First and foremost, we would like to acknowledge Black Gate, a fine blog that has been an integral part of the SF/F fandom community for many years. Withdrawing from consideration cannot have been an easy decision for them, and we wish them all the best.

We also want to thank MidAmeriCon and the World Science Fiction Society for all their work to manage the Hugo Awards, especially in these contentious times. It's a big job, undertaken entirely by volunteers — fans providing a labor of love for the SF/F community — and we are honored to be a part of it.

Last, but absolutely not least, we want to thank everyone who nominated us and all of our friends and readers who support us and appreciate what we do. We couldn't do any of this without you.

For those not familiar with Lady Business, we are a group of women and genderqueer people who write about media from an intersectional feminist perspective. You can learn more about our individual editors here. If you'd like a sampling of our posts in 2015, here is some of what we've done:

• 2017 Hugo Spreadsheet of Doom by Lady Business Overlords & Loyal Minions


• Gender Discrimination in SFF Awards by justira, owlmoose, and renay


• Short Business: "How to Become a Robot in 12 Easy Steps" by A. Merc Rustad by bookgazing


• Short Business: "Anyway: Angie" by Daniel José Older by bookgazing


• Review: Time Salvager: Tell Don't Show, Silence Your Women, Get Nowhere Fast by justira


• Sites of Transgression and Bisexual Themes in Agent Carter by justira


• Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith — Poor Treatment of: Women, Bisexuality, and Giant Insects by justira


• Mockingjay Part 1 Misses Opportunities for Rich Metatextual Interplay with PTSD by justira


• Guest Post: The World is Not Enough: The Transgressive Villainesses of James Bond by litomnivore


• Guest Post: Christ, I Miss The Cold War: Judi Dench's M by litomnivore


• Nerd Adventures: Pacific Rim at After School Special by litomnivore


• Let's Get Literate! More Dinosaurs, Fewer Omniscient Breasts by renay


• Agents of SHIELD 3x01, "Laws of Nature" - Don't Try the Fish by renay


• Review: Library Wars: Love and War Volume 1 by Kiiro Yumi by spindizzy

Starting this year, we've decided to launch a monthly post looking back on all the things we've accomplished after being pleased with how great our 2014 accomplishments. We're big believers in celebrating the work we've finished — content production can be tough, even if it's fun! It's easy to convince ourselves we didn't do enough instead of being proud of the great things we did do. Onward! ( Looking back over January 2015 )