My Sirens Con Schedule and Misc

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First, I'm going to Sirens Con this year for the first time! And it looks amazing! I'm going to take the precon workshops and spend a whole week talking to other writers, readers and fans about women in fantasy. I can hardly wait!
I'm on back to back panels on Friday morning, because that is what my life looks like:
10AM

Women of the Revolution: Changing Genre and the World
Amy Boggs, Justina Ireland, Catherine Lundoff, Casey Blair
The fantasy genre is filled with revolutionary female characters. Some overtly overthrow regimes, and some challenge our conception of what is possible for women in our world. What does it mean to be “revolutionary” for female characters, and what makes their revolutions compelling? We’ll talk about why and how revolutionary female characters work, including which tropes are problematic, which important narratives writers and readers overlook, and how they reflect their societal context.

11AM
Women of War: Trauma and Healing in Speculative Fiction
Ann Aguirre, Artemis Grey, Catherine Lundoff, T. L. Morganfield, Bethany Powell
When revolutions and wars break out, everyone pays their own price. Warrior women go home with physical scars—or with trauma that isn’t written on their skin. Revolutionaries see others die for their ideals. Healers exhaust themselves and still cannot save everyone. The costs of war are often a central theme in fantasy literature, too. From depictions of PTSD to the treatment of physical injury, this panel will talk about books that deal with hurt and healing in the aftermath of battle.

And there's panels and papers and time to veg out and planned meals and tea and a dance and--but you get the idea. You can still sign up, too, FYI.

And what else am I up to? PT for my shoulder, which is definitely helping. Working on my business plan and starting to buy things I need for tabling and sales and whatnot. Hoping to shop for a laptop in the next few weeks and meet with an accountant.  Working on misc projects, including one with an ASAP deadline for next week. Going to the Mn State Fair (it's a thing in these parts, what can I say? Plus, seed art!) this weekend. Wrangling work, which has become utterly insane.
At any rate, seed art portraits of Brigitte Lin and Michelle Yeoh by artists David Steinlicht, because I adore them and have to get back to work: