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Saturday, May 24
 

1:00pm CDT

The True Diversity of Neurodiversity
Saturday May 24, 2025 1:00pm - 1:45pm CDT
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Contrary to past assumptions, neurodiversity presents in many forms across all genders and backgrounds. As neurodiverse creatives work to empower ourselves, how can we promote more varied and positive representations across books, shows, and comics?
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avatar for AJ Super (she/they)

AJ Super (she/they)

AJ Super is a queer, disabled author trying their best to write diverse, queer, and disability normative science fiction and fantasy worlds. A member of Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers and a full SFWA member, they have a trilogy published by Aethon Books and Blackstone Audio... Read More →
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Clara Ward, they/them

https://clarawardauthor.wordpress.com/
avatar for Daphne Strasert (she/her)

Daphne Strasert (she/her)

www.tomeworksedits.com
Saturday May 24, 2025 1:00pm - 1:45pm CDT
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2:00pm CDT

The Year in Trans SFF
Saturday May 24, 2025 2:00pm - 2:45pm CDT
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What's new in trans SFF? We'll talk about new books, new authors, new shows, new games. What's got us excited? What's out there? Let's celebrate it and talk about it!
Panelists
avatar for K.M. Enright (he/him)

K.M. Enright (he/him)

K. M. Enright is the Sunday Times Bestselling author of MISTRESS OF LIES and the upcoming LORD OF RUIN (August, 2025). Find out more about his writing at kmenright.com or follow him on social media at @KM_Enright.
avatar for Roy Salzman-Cohen (He/Him)
avatar for Ursula Whitcher (They/She)

Ursula Whitcher (They/She)

Ursula Whitcher is a writer, mathematician, and poet whose work has appeared in places including The Deadlands, Frivolous Comma, and Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. A collection of linked short stories, North Continent Ribbon, is published by Neon Hemlock Press.
avatar for Valerie Estelle Frankel

Valerie Estelle Frankel

Author, Pop Culture Author
Valerie Estelle Frankel is the author of 90 books on pop culture, including Women in Doctor Who and Hunting for Meaning in the Mandalorian. Many of her books focus on women's roles in fiction, from her heroine's journey guides From Girl to Goddess and Buffy and the Heroine's Journey... Read More →
Saturday May 24, 2025 2:00pm - 2:45pm CDT
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3:00pm CDT

Help I've predicted the future!
Saturday May 24, 2025 3:00pm - 3:45pm CDT
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In her essay "A Few Rules for Predicting the Future", Octavia Butler talks about a few ways to do just that, and she has done it quite well in her Parable books. The Simpsons has also done it. Have you yourself done it, in writing, in art, in a social media post, or talking to friends and family? You've predicted the future, now what? We've predicted the future, now what do we do?
Guests of Honor
avatar for Naomi Kritzer

Naomi Kritzer

Naomi Kritzer is a science fiction and fantasy writer from St. Paul, Minnesota. In Minneapolis and St. Paul, she is probably best known for her political blog, which provides deep-dive information on candidates in local political races. Outside of the Twin Cities, she is best known... Read More →
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Andrea Hairston

Andrea Hairston is a novelist, playwright, poet, and L. Wolff Kahn 1931 Professor Emerita of Theatre and Africana Studies at Smith College. She ran away from the physics lab to the theatre when she was a young thing and has been a scientist, artiste, and hoodoo conjurer ever since... Read More →
Panelists
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Joyce Frohn

Joyce is trying to be a writer. From the USA.
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Marie Vibbert

Author
https://marievibbert.com
Saturday May 24, 2025 3:00pm - 3:45pm CDT
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7:00pm CDT

Do Magic Systems *Really* Need to Have All the Rules Spelled Out?
Saturday May 24, 2025 7:00pm - 7:45pm CDT
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To what degree do the magic systems in your SFF really need to have all the rules explained, a la RPGs? When do you use a hard magic system? A soft magic system? Do your deities need to be consistent? Shall we fight about Brandon Sanderson's Rules of Magic?
 
Moderators
avatar for Genevieve Clovis (she/her)

Genevieve Clovis (she/her)

Clovis Editorial, Clovis Editorial
https://cloviseditorial.com/
Guests of Honor
avatar for Andrea Hairston

Andrea Hairston

Andrea Hairston is a novelist, playwright, poet, and L. Wolff Kahn 1931 Professor Emerita of Theatre and Africana Studies at Smith College. She ran away from the physics lab to the theatre when she was a young thing and has been a scientist, artiste, and hoodoo conjurer ever since... Read More →
Panelists
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Priya Sridhar

A 2016 MBA graduate and published author, Priya Sridhar has been writing fantasy and science fiction for fifteen years, and counting. Capstone published the Powered series, and Alban Lake published her works Carousel and Neo-Mecha Mayhem. Priya lives in Miami, Florida with her fa... Read More →
avatar for Risa Wolf (All pronouns)

Risa Wolf (All pronouns)

Risa Wolf is a multi-gendered water elemental disguised as an ink-stained lycanthrope. (Don't tell their spouse or their dogs; the disguise is working.) They come from the Burned-Over District and they imagine houses for book-ghosts for a living.  
Saturday May 24, 2025 7:00pm - 7:45pm CDT
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7:00pm CDT

Games We Love
Saturday May 24, 2025 7:00pm - 7:45pm CDT
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The cost of producing a new video game has increased exponentially, causing major producers to invest in developing few and often more conservative, less risky projects. Come talk about games that you feel are doing creative work and going beyond standard narratives
Panelists
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avatar for Ursula Whitcher (They/She)

Ursula Whitcher (They/She)

Ursula Whitcher is a writer, mathematician, and poet whose work has appeared in places including The Deadlands, Frivolous Comma, and Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. A collection of linked short stories, North Continent Ribbon, is published by Neon Hemlock Press.
Saturday May 24, 2025 7:00pm - 7:45pm CDT
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