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I found a very good write-up of the panel by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
morchades, who pointed to it on the ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
wiscon community. She got, I think, most if not all of the essentials, and pointed out something I didn't really have time to go into on the panel, namely the way that the Watergate hearings, specifically Sirica's rulings about the tapes and then Nixon's resignation, are part of the context and background of the story. I'm wondering if one of the reasons the book caught the mainstream, and specifically Time magazine attention, is that the editors find that Watergate resonates with current government secrecy, lies, and crimes.
Morchades andrachel_edidin confirm that the panelist who surprised me so much by saying she hadn't previously read much about lesbians, and the only one who hadn't already been a Bechdel fan via Dykes to Watch Out For, was Jenni Moody.
morchades, who pointed to it on the wiscon community. She got, I think, most if not all of the essentials, and pointed out something I didn't really have time to go into on the panel, namely the way that the Watergate hearings, specifically Sirica's rulings about the tapes and then Nixon's resignation, are part of the context and background of the story. I'm wondering if one of the reasons the book caught the mainstream, and specifically Time magazine attention, is that the editors find that Watergate resonates with current government secrecy, lies, and crimes.Morchades and
rachel_edidin confirm that the panelist who surprised me so much by saying she hadn't previously read much about lesbians, and the only one who hadn't already been a Bechdel fan via Dykes to Watch Out For, was Jenni Moody.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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When you and Janet were talking about someone "saying she hadn't previous read much about lesbians," that seemed shocking. But the wrap-up statement from Jenni Moody, as quoted in the Morchades write-up, was "I'd like to see more positive portrayals of female sexuality, and for people to embrace all facets of their otherness." That doesn't seem shocking to me at all, considering how much fiction treats women's sexuality as either unimportant or problematic. Did the other comment turn up later in the discussion?
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What she said wasn't horrible, just startling and annoying that I was--here, now, in that context--again being defined as the other, and reminded how many people won't read about people unlike themselves, for certain values of "unlike".
I had a good conversation about this with