M. Téllez's Blog, page 3
March 15, 2017
2017 Lammy Nomination AND Moogfest
METROPOLARITY crew got news the other day that our STYLE OF ATTACK REPORT is one of eight finalists under "LGBTQ SF/F/Horror" in this year's Lambda Literary Awards.
Here is the full list of finalists in all categories:
http://www.lambdaliterary.org/feature...
Looks like we're planning to roll deep to the award ceremony in June. Update you on how it goes, ok? =}
At any rate, this status means that we can now slap a very special "Finalist" type sticker on the book. I believe this also boosts our group's EXP points up considerably.
I almost forgot to mention too that METROPOLARITY will be in Durham from May 18th through the 21st for Moogfest.
Here is the official fest About:
Since 2004, Moogfest has brought together artists, futurist thinkers, inventors, entrepreneurs, designers, engineers, scientists, and musicians.
By day, Moogfest is a platform for conversation and experimentation. This mind-expanding conference attracts creative and technology enthusiasts for three days of participatory programming in Durham, North Carolina. By night, Moogfest presents cutting-edge music in venues throughout the city. Performing artists include early pioneers in electronic music, alongside pop and avant garde experimentalists of today.
We're going to do a few workshops and a reading or two, alongside the eminent Black Quantum Futurism collective of which our own Rasheedah Phillips is a founder.
It's 26º and snowing in Philadelphia right now, with most of the premature spring blooms seemingly dead or dying.
Interesting times.
Here is the full list of finalists in all categories:
http://www.lambdaliterary.org/feature...
Looks like we're planning to roll deep to the award ceremony in June. Update you on how it goes, ok? =}
At any rate, this status means that we can now slap a very special "Finalist" type sticker on the book. I believe this also boosts our group's EXP points up considerably.
I almost forgot to mention too that METROPOLARITY will be in Durham from May 18th through the 21st for Moogfest.
Here is the official fest About:
Since 2004, Moogfest has brought together artists, futurist thinkers, inventors, entrepreneurs, designers, engineers, scientists, and musicians.
By day, Moogfest is a platform for conversation and experimentation. This mind-expanding conference attracts creative and technology enthusiasts for three days of participatory programming in Durham, North Carolina. By night, Moogfest presents cutting-edge music in venues throughout the city. Performing artists include early pioneers in electronic music, alongside pop and avant garde experimentalists of today.
We're going to do a few workshops and a reading or two, alongside the eminent Black Quantum Futurism collective of which our own Rasheedah Phillips is a founder.
It's 26º and snowing in Philadelphia right now, with most of the premature spring blooms seemingly dead or dying.
Interesting times.
February 23, 2017
Desire Hope Despair Speculative Broadcast #01, featuring Ras Mashramani
Finally posted a second episode of the Desire Hope Despair speculative storytelling cast the other day. ^~^
For episode #01 Ras Mashramani reads her story GRL.SUICIDE.HOLIDAY from METROPOLARITY’s debut book, Style of Attack Report...
Audio accompaniment done live by Althea of SWARM & Bare Teeth collectives.
After the story, Ras and Eighteen of the crew hang out and talk about
social space and the early internet + video games/interactive narratives and mental health coping techniques + social work programs + institutions + getting published + using the 2nd person + working writer pro tips
and other ish
Shout out to Alicia for lending the indispensable field recorder
@}-}-;——-
Listen: https://www.mixcloud.com/DHDcast/desi...
Listen to episode #00: https://www.mixcloud.com/DHDcast/desi...
For episode #01 Ras Mashramani reads her story GRL.SUICIDE.HOLIDAY from METROPOLARITY’s debut book, Style of Attack Report...
Audio accompaniment done live by Althea of SWARM & Bare Teeth collectives.
After the story, Ras and Eighteen of the crew hang out and talk about
social space and the early internet + video games/interactive narratives and mental health coping techniques + social work programs + institutions + getting published + using the 2nd person + working writer pro tips
and other ish
Shout out to Alicia for lending the indispensable field recorder
@}-}-;——-
Listen: https://www.mixcloud.com/DHDcast/desi...
Listen to episode #00: https://www.mixcloud.com/DHDcast/desi...
January 8, 2017
Desire Hope Despair Speculative Broadcast #00
https://soundcloud.com/cyborgmemoirs/...
Ah, forgot to share here the premier episode!
A recurring broadcast of speculative fiction #storytelling, critique & current events
Episode # 00
With your host, magus monk (yours truly)
Discussing the slept on sci-fi writer James Tiptree Jr/Alice B Sheldon
A dramatic reading of Tiptree/Sheldon's grim tale of the rise of a facist men’s cult, // The Screwfly Solution //
Featuring musical accompaniment by @starsinmypockets
Story begins at 21:43
Content warning: sexualized violence & assault of women (part of the story's riding theme), suicide.
Very diy | thanks 4 listening
Ah, forgot to share here the premier episode!
A recurring broadcast of speculative fiction #storytelling, critique & current events
Episode # 00
With your host, magus monk (yours truly)
Discussing the slept on sci-fi writer James Tiptree Jr/Alice B Sheldon
A dramatic reading of Tiptree/Sheldon's grim tale of the rise of a facist men’s cult, // The Screwfly Solution //
Featuring musical accompaniment by @starsinmypockets
Story begins at 21:43
Content warning: sexualized violence & assault of women (part of the story's riding theme), suicide.
Very diy | thanks 4 listening
The Romance of the Colony
http://www.maskmagazine.com/the-escap...
I wrote this narrative for Mask Magazine about the persistent imperialist romance myth of “the colony” in sci-fi.
It's a story about the dreams of The Colony’s extension into outerspace/surveillance state as seen thru lens of hollywood blockbusters n anime.
I wrote this narrative for Mask Magazine about the persistent imperialist romance myth of “the colony” in sci-fi.
It's a story about the dreams of The Colony’s extension into outerspace/surveillance state as seen thru lens of hollywood blockbusters n anime.
December 8, 2016
an interview with Discipline Press
Just wanted to share an interview with yours truly that came out today from Tamara Santibañez's Discipline Press
http://www.disciplinepress.com/blog/2...
http://www.disciplinepress.com/blog/2...
