We will have a table at Capital City Comic Con this Saturday!
The MW*C 40 table will be at C12 in the Breslin Center at MSU.
See you there!
Here is the link to her project and how to get in touch with Hansi directly :
https://www.gofundme.com/f/women-in-fandom-archive-project
— Morgan Dawn
Hansi Oppenheimer has been heading up the Squee Project for years, interviewing fans on camera for her fandom history projects. Ex: Squee! Identifying As A FanGirl: https://filmfreeway.com/875918
She’s looking for volunteers to help her index the video files, locate a hosting platform, proofread transcripts and of course funding for automatic transcription services (I will also be launching my own smaller campaign to raise funds to transcribe our Media Fandom Oral History Project Interviews so stay tuned for that).
If you can, please help signal boost her call for project volunteers and funding. Here is her description of the types of volunteer work
A big part of the Squee Project has been my commitment to documenting the contributions of women in fandom. Since 2012, I have been interviewing women, femmes and non binary creators and fans about their experiences. I have built up a really huge archive of interviews and would like to let the public access them. There are a few steps to doing this and it won’t happen overnight. Here is the plan as I see it.
1) I need help to go through all of my external drives and catalog all the interviews. Some of them are on PC formatted drives so we’ll need to convert the files.
2) The interviews need to be transcribed. Fortunately, there are programs that do it fairly cheaply at 10 cents a minute but with over 100 interviews, many of them running 30 minutes or more this will be costly but maybe we can get a grant or enough donations to cover it.
3) We need a platform for the interviews and the transcripts as well as bio information on the subjects. YouTube might be a good option but I’m open to suggestions. If there is a library that might be a good home for them, I’d be happy to discuss it as long as there was a way for a casual viewer to access the media.
4) Everything needs to be rectified and cross referenced so it can be searched and used for fan studies, history, general research or just plain entertainment.
5) Ideally, I’d love to have some assistance from people with an interest in fan studies, history, women’s studies, transmedia and documentaries and to be able to compensate them for their time.
If you can help with a donation, would like to volunteer, have some suggestions, grant info, technical know-how, etc. please contact us.
— Morgan Dawn
Help Laura and Carole Get Back on Their Feet
We are still hoping to do another run of MW*C 39 T’shirts as we ran out of some larger sizes, but we haven’t heard from enough people to make it happen.
If you want a MW*C 39 T’shirt (featuring the MW*C 39 mission patch in red and white on royal blue shirts) please e-mail us (mediawestcon@aol.com) ASAP with your name and size needed.
The 2019 Hugo Awards were announced this weekend at the 77th World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) in Dublin, Ireland.
Of special interest:
BEST RELATED WORK
Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
BEST GRAPHIC STORY
Monstress, Volume 3: Haven, written by Marjorie Liu, art by Sana Takeda (Image Comics)
BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, LONG FORM
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, screenplay by Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman, directed by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman (Sony)
BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION, SHORT FORM
The Good Place: “Janet(s),” written by Josh Siegal & Dylan Morgan, directed by Morgan Sackett (NBC)
A complete listing can be found at
http://www.thehugoawards.org/
