Torture Cinema Poll for March 2015: What’s next?
You know the drill. It’s vote time!
Torture Cinema Poll for February: What should we watch next?
You know the drill. Vote and share!
The 2015 “Women and Non-Binary in SFF” Theme Begins: Announcements, Details, and Guest/Author Calls
As you may well be aware by now, we have a new theme in 2015: Women and Non-Binary in SFF. This post will serve as a handy guide to our show for the next 11.5 months and as a nice place to go in case you want to be a part of the show or the blog at some point in 2015. The Theme: What We’re Doing Throughout 2015, we are going to put particular focus on the contributions of women and non-binary people to science fiction and fantasy. The majority of our interviewees, as such, will be women and non-binary; additionally, a good portion of movies, tv, and discussion episodes will be in some way related to this theme. Though we’re not setting a hard quota for the year, we expect that roughly 75% of our content will be women- and non-binary-centered. As such, we have two levels of “open calls” for guests:
Torture Cinema Poll for January: What should we watch for the 50th Torture?
What’s that? 50 Tortures? 5-0? That’s right. January will mark the 50th episode of Torture Cinema. We’ll make this special somehow…Right. The poll. It’s a special poll. For this special episode, I asked the Internet to pick the five flicks to appear on our poll. You know the drill. Vote!
Awards Eligibility: Our Stuff and All the Stuff We Covered in One Handy Place of Awesome
It’s that time of year. Awards Season. For us, that mostly means the Hugo Awards. And since everyone is posting their eligibility posts, we decided we’d do one, too. But instead of just telling you where we’re eligible, we’re going to do that and tell you about the cool stuff and peoples we talked to throughout the year who are eligible for something, too. If we missed anything, let us know! Note: to nominate works for the Hugos, you need a membership to this year’s Worldcon in Spokane by Jan. 31st. Full memberships are $140 until Jan. 31st. Supporting memberships (i.e., non-attending; mostly just for those that want to nominate and vote) are $40. If you were registered for last year’s Worldcon in London, you can nominate works for 2015, but you won’t be able to vote w/o at least a supporting membership. If you’re not attending, do consider getting a supporting membership so you can vote for your favorite sf/f stuff. It’s definitely worth it. Thanks to Gareth Kavanagh for the reminder. So, here goes:
Happy Holidays!
Before the day ends, we want to say a very happy holidays to all of you. Thanks for listening and/or reading, voting for us during the Hugo Awards bonanza, supporting the World SF Tour, and for being awesome! If you don’t hear from us before 2015, have a great New Year. Next year, we’re all about women in sf/f. It’s going to be an amazing year! Merry Christmas and happy holidays, everyone. Keep your robots close and let your dragons fly free (or something corny like that)!
