Is that some kind of joke about dumplings? Do I probably not want to ask?
[edit] Sorry, this one actually took me a moment to parse:
Freaks, Sideshows, and Human Oddities. From “Hopfrog” to Freaks to Geek Love. Is this the last taboo, the final frontier of bad taste, or a persistent archetype in literature?
Then I couldn't find anything to say about it that wasn't boggling. There is absolutely room for a panel about the use of so-called freaks or human oddities in speculative fiction (I'd probably start talking about Theodore Sturgeon's The Dreaming Jewels (1950), which I read when I was eight: it took me years to notice that it was a novel whose romantic heroine is a woman of color with dwarfism) and all of the ways that intersects with objectification of disabled people, but the panel shouldn't recapitulate the problem itself!
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Is that some kind of joke about dumplings? Do I probably not want to ask?
[edit] Sorry, this one actually took me a moment to parse:
Freaks, Sideshows, and Human Oddities. From “Hopfrog” to Freaks to Geek Love. Is this the last taboo, the final frontier of bad taste, or a persistent archetype in literature?
Then I couldn't find anything to say about it that wasn't boggling. There is absolutely room for a panel about the use of so-called freaks or human oddities in speculative fiction (I'd probably start talking about Theodore Sturgeon's The Dreaming Jewels (1950), which I read when I was eight: it took me years to notice that it was a novel whose romantic heroine is a woman of color with dwarfism) and all of the ways that intersects with objectification of disabled people, but the panel shouldn't recapitulate the problem itself!