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Have you signed up for the May BinderCon Mini yet? Award winning author Marie-Helene Bertino will be at the Brooklyn, New York Powderkeg Writer’s Space talking fiction submissions and grappling with the fear of rejection. Grab your spot ASAP!
BinderCon builds community for women and gender non-conforming people working in media.
Here is Sarah Mirk, for Bitch Magazine, on BinderCon Los Angeles:
"Even though women are still a minority of voices in media, what’s clear from Out of the Binders is that many people are working to build the media landscape we want, instead of consigning themselves to the media we have. As author Erika Wurth summed up very succinctly about the need for more diverse voices in fiction, 'Why diversity? Because it’s fucking 2015 and we’re in America.'"
Did you see #BinderCon trending on Twitter all weekend?
Thank you to everyone who came together to make our Los Angeles conference so remarkable!
Hey binders! At our inaugural BinderCon, we dominated social media and, by the second day of the conference were the NUMBER ONE trending Twitter topic. Of course we're keen to do this again. So help our friendly live-tweeter out by joining in - just be sure to use the hashtag #BinderCon!
Rachel Vorona Cote chats to six literary ladies about their favourite female writers in this ultimate guide to literary self-care.
Some thoughts on reading women for literary self-care.
If you’re coming to BinderCon Los Angeles and still haven’t signed up for your two allotted speed pitch slots, there’s still some availability - and with FANTASTIC publications, too. Don’t be shy!
Make sure to check the BinderCon blog regularly! Now helmed by Social Media Person Rachel Vorona Cote, we’re using this space to keep you informed about important and/or fun updates.
At the beginning of March, Ruth and I launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the next stage of the evolution of Emily Books. This project has a few different components, but to me the most important one is that we want to take all the different pieces of Emily Books — the website where we sell books, the Tumblr where we talk about books and reblog the pages you’ve highlighted, the Twitter where we amplify what our authors are saying and talk to and about them — and unite them in a real online community. We want to be more than an online store. I think we need to be more than a store, actually, in order to fulfill our mission and justify our existence in the crowded literary landscape.
It is great to send people books every month and great to send authors and indie publishers checks. But the next step for us involved a big push in the direction of becoming more like a publisher ourselves: for starters, we have signed on as an imprint of Coffee House Press, and will publish two books a year with them. So the amount of work we do is increasing a lot, and right now our website and our own infrastructure is kind of held together by pieces of string and masking tape. With every book we pick, our accounting gets more complicated, and we’ve needed to hire someone to help out with that for a while, but at the scale we currently operate, it hasn’t made sense to spend that money. What we need most, which this Kickstarter will generate if it succeeds, is a combination of better infrastructure and a larger community of readers and book-buyers and, most importantly, subscribers. If you’ve been thinking of subscribing to Emily Books anyway, subscribing via the Kickstarter is the best possible way to do it. You’ll get a bonus month free, plus an invitation to our small, exclusive and very fun relaunch party.
There are a lot of other ways to help us, too, which you can read more about on our Kickstarter page; you can get some of our favorite books as rewards, and we’ll keep adding more signed copies of various books by authors we love/authors we conveniently are. Or you can pledge $5 and when we have a new website, you’ll be a member of it, able to post in forums and get early notice each time we have a new pick. If you have read this far, I bet you care enough about us to kick in $5 and get that reward! Do it now while you’re thinking about it. We will be so grateful to you for helping us and the writers we love to get where we’re going.
Sarah Manguso at BookCourt, 3/17/15
If the sessions grid looks a little fuller, that's not your imagination! We've added a new workshop and a panel - and we think you'll be compelled by both. Producer and manager Victoria Wisdom will be running a workshop on pitching television pilots and films.
We'll also have a panel on reporting sexual violence, featuring a number of excellent women in journalism and media - including Amy Ziering of The Hunting Ground.
BinderCon Los Angeles attendees now have the opportunity to sign up for our networking lunch on March 28! You'll have the opportunity to meet other attendees in your genre, some especially established! Here are just some of the folks you can chat with as you take a break from panels and workshops: Ann Friedman, Ruth Ann Harnisch, Michele Kort and Stephanie Hallett from Ms. Magazine, and Jennifer Romolini from HelloGiggles!
It was really, really hard.
Here's The Atlantic on the television guest gender gap, with a shout out to the Op-Ed Project. See Kate Orenstein, Op-Ed Project CEO and Founder, deliver a keynote address at BinderCon Los Angeles!
We’re so proud of BinderCon Los Angeles speaker Wendy C. Ortiz and BinderCon Advisor Roxane Gay for making this wonderful list.
Here’s a helpful analogy if you encounter someone who is still struggling to grasp that whole “only have sex with people who want to have sex with you” idea. The Rockstar Dinosaur Pirate Princess recommends:If you’re still struggling, just imagine ...
What a great way to explain consent!
“If I were gonna go cross-country on a wagon train in the 1860s, I’d take a porn girl”: a trip to the Adult Video News Awards.
BinderCon Los Angeles panelist Molly Lambert writes on her experience at the Adult Video News Awards:
"The broadening of porn reflects the rising acknowledgement of its female audience. More and more porn is being made to appeal to a range of tastes, especially to women. According to a 2013 Pew report, 25 percent of men and 8 percent of women admit to watching online porn — numbers that may be skewed because viewers might be loath to cop to their real habits in a survey out of shame. Men outnumber women as visitors at AVN, but there are some women and a smattering of married couples...Grey, Angel, Belladonna — who defied traditional standards of porn beauty, with her gap-toothed smile and, for some years, a shaved head — and others created the third-wave porn star: intelligent, self-possessed, idealistic about the industry, with a Bettie Page style of addressing the camera that seems to control, rather than be controlled by, it."
If we are blinded by darkness, we are also blinded by light. When too much light falls on everything, a special terror results.
Great long-form profile on Mary Cain, a young long-distance runner, by Elizabeth Weil.
