My Own Private WisCon

Even more than most conventions, WisCon is not the same experience for everyone. This was brought home to me on the last day of this year’s convention when I mentioned to a couple of writers I know that a friend of mine was agitating to get WisCon to invite Donna Haraway as a future guest of honor.

The first one asked, “Who’s she?” The second one acknowledged that they’d only heard of her because of a story they’d read recently.

I was stunned, because I’d just spent the convention going to pane...