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Join the Carl Brandon Society at WisCon 32

Are you heading to WisCon for Memorial Day Weekend? If so, be sure to connect with the Carl Brandon Society. Our schedule is posted below. You can also chat with steering committee members Candra K. Gill, Claire Light, Victor Raymond, Nisi Shawl, and Bryan Thao Worra. The steering committee will be wearing pins that say, “Color Me SF!”

Official Carl Brandon Society Events at WisCon 32

Friday, 7:30 – 8:30 p.m.
WisCon Opening Ceremonies

The Carl Brandon Society is hosting the Opening Ceremonies this year, so come help us kick off WisCon.

Friday, 10:30 p.m – Party

Join us on the sixth floor for our party with our co-host, the Speculative Literature Foundation. Talk with Carl Brandon Society steering committee members, make a crown, renew your membership, and check out the new Carl Brandon Society buttons.

Saturday, 10:00 – 11:15 a.m., Conference Room 5
Carl Brandon Society Update

Come to this panel to get a comprehensive update on the Awards and the Butler Memorial Scholarship. We’re also looking for your input, so come ready to brainstorm with us.

Saturday, 2:30 – 3:45p.m., Conference Room 4

Carl Brandon Society Sponsored Panel. Program Description: You’ve heard of Octavia Butler, Samuel Delany, and Nalo Hopkinson as people of color who write SF/F. Let’s talk about other writers of genre fiction who are people of color. Who are your favorites that everyone should be reading?

Sunday, 4 – 5:15 p.m., Conference Room 5
Some of Us Are Brave: Identity Intersections in an Election Year

Carl Brandon Society Sponsored Panel. Program Description: With the Clinton and Obama candidacies, there has been a great deal of discussion in the press about race and gender. Unfortunately, this discussion is often framed in terms of which is the so-called bigger issue. Black women in particular have been singled out as facing a perceived dilemma in terms of identity framed as an either/or situation. This panel will look at identity intersections – ands instead of ors – using the discourse around the Clinton and Obama candidacies as a framework.

Sunday, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
CBS Invitational Dinner/Mixer

Dinner with the steering committee and ongoing & prospective volunteers

For more information about WisCon, visit http://wiscon.info/

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Black History Month SF Reading List

The Carl Brandon Society recommends the following books for BLACK HISTORY MONTH:

  • So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy
  • edited by Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan
  • Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
  • Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
  • My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due
  • The Coyote Kings of the Space Age Bachelor Pad by Minister Faust
  • Mindscape by Andrea Hairston
  • Wind Follower by Carole McDonnell
  • Futureland by Walter Mosley
  • The Shadow Speaker by Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu
  • Zahrah the Windseeker by Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu

And the 2005 CARL BRANDON SOCIETY AWARD Winners:

PARALLAX AWARD given to works of speculative fiction created by a
person of color: 47 by Walter Mosley

KINDRED AWARD given to any work of speculative fiction dealing with
issues of race and ethnicity; nominees may be of any racial or ethnic
group: Stormwitch by Susan Vaught

Watch for future lists, and feel free to leave your suggestions in the comments.