David Gillon

If the live feed from the Hugos is archived anywhere, it's definitely worth watching.

It starts with Jeanette Ng (who is Hong Kong Chinese) coming on stage as winner of the John F Campbell Award for Best New Writer and screaming "Campbell was a fucking fascist" and just gets more and more diverse from there.

Likhain accepting Best Fan Artist partially in (I presume) Tagalog.

A great speech (via acceptor) from Foz Meadows (Best Fan Writer) on accepting other bodies.

Elsa Sjunneson-Henry in tears as first Deaf-Blind woman to win a Hugo (Best Semi-Prozine) for Uncanny/Disabled People Destroy SF (and probably also first to have a guide dog on stage), and actually using "Nothing For Us, Without Us" in her acceptance speech.

AO3 taking best related work.

Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse getting best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form,

Becky Chambers (Best Series for Wayfarers) noting she's missing her anniversary with her wife to be there. (I had my fingers crossed for Yoon's Machineries of Empire).

Zen Cho (who is Malayan) getting best Novelette for a Korean fantasy.

And Mary Robinette Kowal receiving best Novel from astronaut Dr Jeannette Epps for Lady Astronauts Book 1, the Calculating Stars, and promising to keep on writing for those pushed out to the margins. (I had my fingers crossed for Yoon's Revenant Gun, but you can't have everything).

Poor Michael Scott was almost overshadowed by his co-presenter Afua Richardson, who on top of being a featured artist fpr the con turned out to sing and play flute at professional levels, singing Stand By Me as a tribute to Nichelle Nichols and her work to get women into the space programme.(Which I also thought fitted well coming just after Elsa Sjunneson-Henry's invocation of "Nothing For Us, Without Us" and with MRK's win for the Calculating Stars and having Dr Jeanette Epps presenting.

The only fiasco during the ceremony was unfortunately an accessibility one, with the automated captioning being so bad it reduced the entire auditorium to helpless laughter at at least one point. Unfortunately the con's reaction was to pull it, which left those reliant on captioning with no support whatsoever, a mistake which has now been acknowledged (Though not actually apologised for). Apparently there will be an archived version with corrected captioning, but it really doesn't look good pulling the captioning while having a deaf-blind winner (and people won't be able to tell why the audience collapses into laughter).