Lambda Literary Awards Masterpost

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Clarification of Lambda Literary Foundation Policy Guidelines of Nominations, 2009 Lambda Literary Awards, from Katherine V. Forrest, Interim President, Board of Trustees

Older Posts (Pre-Sep 25 or so)

Alan Chin: Discrimination at the Lambda Awards

Jane at Dear Author: Regarding Gay Romance

Boys Next Door Blog: No room for the heteronorm?/An Update

EREC: Lambda GLBT Book Awards Go Heterophobic

Teddy Pig at The Naughty Bits: Lambda Literary Award: No Straight People Allowed!

Fiona Glass: New rules for the Lambda Awards

Selah March: A lynching in the making

Erastes: A Little Miffed
erastes A Little Miffed (Same post; different journals; different comments)

Lena Prodan Where I Don't Want to be

Loving Venus – Loving Mars: Lambda Fail

Newer (Sep 25 & later)
Erastes in meta_writer Lambda's Explanation of the New Guidelines and my comments
erastes Lambda's Explanation of the New Guidelines and my comments (Same post; different journals; different comments)

c_smith_author The Lambda Literary Award has just sidelined itself as an arbiter of good GLBTQ fiction.

rm on the Lambda Literary Awards and the art of disappearing

torachan Oh, ew.

belleweather It's OK to be an Ally, Sheesh!

elisa_rolle LGBTQ Award: Setting rules

Rebecca Day: That Lambda Thing

Kate McMurray: authenticity and audience redux

Hayden Thorne: On the LLF Controversy

Ask Nicola: Lambda Literary Award guidelines clarification

Victor Banis: The Little Lost Lamb(da)s –Some thoughts by Victor J. Banis

EREC: Quoth: Lambda Redux

Teddy Pig at The Naughty Bits: Lambda Literary Foundation: We Can't Hack A Level Playing Field So

Teddy Pig at The Naughty Bits What Would Victor J. Banis Do?

leethomas Recently, the Lambda Literary Foundation instituted new guidelines for its awards

lee_rowan Lammys... ye gods.

mjaedin My opinion on the Lambda Literary Awards

kiernankelly Lamda Awards Shun Straight Ally Authors

duskpeterson The Lambda Literary Awards and gender

Queerty: New Rule: Straights not allowed to compete for Lambda Literary Awards

sparkindarkness This? This is my not amused face. The Lambda Awards

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keeva shocking, i tell you
kynn shocking, i tell you (Same post; different journals; different comments)

Ann Somerville: Straight* women – it’s not about you

Ann Somerville: Lambda Literary Foundation Policy Guidelines clarified

Ann Somerville: You know what’s really wrong with the m/m genre?

Christian A. Young: The new Lambda Literary Foundation Policy Guidelines and you.

emmacollingwood LAMBDA Literary, Act II: The official statement

gloss [ oh, shut up ]

lunesque So. The Lambda awards thing.

likespring this is also just like prop 8.

kiernankelly Deleted Entry

kynn the bahleeted kiernankelly post
keeva the bahleeted kiernankelly post (Same post; different site; different comments)

kynn fight lies with the truth

elf Lambda=11=5+(2x3); Hail Eris

ivorygates Your Monthly Wank

kaligrrl once more into the breach with EPIC FAIL!!!

kellidunham What's that sound? Oh, it's straight people whining!

rockeandroll I am not a person who usually comments on this stuff

fiction_theory I have no clever nickname for this

jazzypom From my fandom corner

Karnythia at The Angry Black woman: Dear Straight Cisgender People Who Are Showing Out
Karnythia at Alas, a blog: Dear Straight Cisgender People Who Are Showing Out
karnythia Dear Straight Cisgender People Who Are Showing Out
karnythia Dear Straight Cisgender People Who Are Showing Out (Same post; different sites; different comments)

Seeking Avalon: On Isms: The Lambda Awards, Homophobia, Privilege & Racism

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sparkindarkness Lambda Awards – disagree if you must, but put the privilege and homophobia away

eumelia My own fuzzy opinion about Lambda Literary Awards

gehayi DVD Commentary: Lambda Literary Awards

shemale So Lambda has stated that they will take into consideration…

dubious_virtue A lynching in the making (Same post as one from previous roundup; different site.)

dubious_virtue More re: Lambda Lit versus the Breeders
Selah March: More re: Lambda Lit versus the Breeders (Same post; different sites; different comments)

lanning well, now, here's a to-do

strangetwn_god Lambda Literary Wank

karjack Mini-rants

babel A few things.

Towleroad: Lambda Literary Foundation Announces New Rules, Leadership

TeddyPig: Because Someone Asked

Seeking Avalon: On Isms & Idiots (Part 2)

Seeking Avalon: On Isms & Idiots (Part 3)

emmyjag Lambda Literary Awards: Breeders need not apply

senior_witch Got into internet wank

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erastes I’ve just received this charming diatribe in my inbox (Comments turned off.)

logovol Mi fetiche no es credencial (Post in Spanish)

kynn cue the wtf chorus

keeva Does linkspam need a new tagline?
kynn Does linkspam need a new tagline? (Same post; different sites; different comments)

gwailowrite False Allies in Straight-fail

flourish Lambda Awards kerfuffle

spoggly re: Lambda Awards

angrylemur People are idiots, Tuesday edition

abigail_roux Oh, what a tangled web we writers weave sometimes.

sparkindarkness Lambda Bingo!

sunhawk note one on being a good ally

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kaigou lambda, literature, voices, and also, I live in the taj mahal.

kynn o dear god no

duskpeterson My letter to the Lambda Literary Foundation (this one's a few days old)

Erastes at Speak Its Name: The Lambda’s by T J Pennington

homasse Another Fail

moniquill Dear Lambdafail wangstbitches:

sparkindarkness BINGO!

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la_fields Quick: Someone define me

catherineldf An organized rant about the Lambda Awards

chicklet_girl *puts on flak jacket*

Brent Hartinger at After Elton: Should You Have to be Gay to Win a Lambda Award?

elgraves Some thoughts
ellie Some thoughts (Same post; different sites; different comments)

chasingtides Lambda, Discrimination, And Are You Seriously Saying That?

Teddy Pig: The Founder Of The Lambda Literary Awards Speaks His Mind

senior_witch More links

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sanguinity Ten Dollars and a Lawn Sign

Sharon Wheeler Awards kerfuffle

KD: M/M or Gay?

pyrephox Oh, Lambda, wherefore art thou? Deny thy community and refuse thy name...

zephyrprince Changes to the Lambda Literary Awards

ein_myria Chatter about λ

stoneself m/mfail and intersectionality and cisgendered privilege and more

Comments

Re: whose side?

[amadi]

This is where the intersection of reporter and participant gets very murky, and why journalists don't take part in events that they're covering.

Re: whose side?

[elf]

Indeed. Got any suggestions?

I could just not report on issues I have a personal interest/stake in.
I'm not willing to ignore issues I have a personal interest/stake in.

I'm not sure I could reasonably not comment on any posts I linkspam, unless they're on my f'list/readlist, other than the "you've been Linkspammed!" comment. I might be able to do that temporarily, but I don't think I could stick with it in the long run. Have to think about it. I don't think I'd be prone to leaving out posts in order to comment on them--but I have to admit I'd be tempted. Having to choose between "share the link" and "say something" is not a spot I'm willing to put myself in on a regular basis.

Re: whose side?

[amadi]

Then perhaps, if the goal is to attempt to present an unbiased and neutral fashion you need to find others who can do so, because so long as you're participating in the events that you're attempting to report, even in the limited manner that such reporting occurs here, there will be bias. It is impossible to avoid.

And kill the tagline, because it is absolutely no longer true.

Re: whose side?

[kathmandu]

Then perhaps you would like to do a linkspam roundup?

Re: whose side?

[amadi]

I didn't sign up for the task for a reason. But that's a nice diversionary tactic.

Re: whose side?

[kathmandu]

Wrong. The reason this was set up as a community was to encourage multiple people to contribute their efforts. Elf is doing this for free. If you complain that your free pie doesn't come in the flavor you prefer, you're being a jerk. Don't complain that Elf should recruit someone else to read your mind and fulfill your wishes; step up or shut up.

Re: whose side?

[amadi]

First of all, you have no legitimacy in telling me what to do. Secondly, my concern isn't that the pie is the wrong flavor, my concern is that the pie is a lie. This isn't pie, this is something else entirely. Which is fine, but then it shouldn't be called pie at all.

Re: whose side?

[anehan]

I'm not convinced that elf's not participating in the discussions she links to is any guarantee of unbiased reporting, simply because no one is unbiased, whether they are participating in the event or not. Not even those journalists you refer to.

If you see that posts on your side haven't been represented, I would suggest you send links to elf--or set up your own community, if you think elf is going to ignore those posts (which I doubt, but YMMV)--rather than asking elf to step down.

Re: whose side?

[elf]

FWIW, nobody's asked me to step down. They've just asked me to re-label my activities to match their perceptions. I said I'd step down first.

Re: whose side?

[anehan]

My bad. However, my point still stands.

Re: whose side?

[alchemia]

I agree with your point.

Re: whose side?

[amadi]

It's not my job to maintain this community or ensure anyone else's objectivity. I simply stand by the point, you can be a reporter or you can be a participant. You can't easily or fairly be both. And that it's become clear that any anti-oppression work that was meant to be done by this community has gone by the wayside.

Re: whose side?

[pine]

umm, not that I have the desire or the time to be dragged into yetanotherwank, but this:

you can be a reporter or you can be a participant. You can't easily or fairly be both.

is more than a little inaccurate, IMO. For one, it's a binary fallacy. And second, *everybody* posting here and elsewhere on LJ and its clones is both: by definition, talking about an issue is both being a reporter *and* being a participant.

Also, I'm disturbed by the implication, when you say it's not your job to ensure "anyone else's objectivity", that you yourself have this mythical quality of "objectivity." But I'm not going to assume that is what you meant. I've never gotten the feeling that linkspam pretends to be "objective," for whatever values of "objectivity" one might wish to assign.

Re: whose side?

[amadi]

The issue of objectivity is only in question because this community is billed as existing to further the interests of anti-oppression. And that's not what's happening, which means that either the participation needs to cease or the tagline and alleged focus of the community needs to be updated to be more accurate.

Re: whose side?

[pine]

I agree that the comm should always keep a critical eye out on all those "cui bono" questions. Does linking X further the comm's goals? does *not* linking Y? Can any comm have goals that are not inextricably intertwined with the flist and experience and so on of the posters? It's infinitely fascinating (NTM, an infinite regress at some level) to consider the meta-of-meta issues and the politics-of-the-politics-of-writing-about-writing...

Which is why I'm glad Elf is doing it, as I haven't the time to do more than take the benefits and run...

As to the current Fail, I am just happy to see so many posts linked, so I can go read and be enlightened. Also, to see where the reaction has perhaps been more to the "OMG Change Is Coming" than to the principle of the thing. Fandom so loves to overreact. *g* Or that is, sometimes to react to implications that haven't yet been realized and may not be. Whatever - the more I am able to read widely on a topic, the more I do feel I'm able to sort out the issues and avoid one of those blanket "All X are bad, All Y good" responses that tend to distort the complexity of reality (and real people) but blow up into such lovely (not!) wanks.

Re: whose side?

[elf]

I am willing to:
1) Cease posting to linkspam,
2) Change the tagline, and cease posting to linkspam,
3) Discuss, in non-public venues, policies for linkspam roundups, and either agree to them, or cease posting to linkspam.

If you don't think I'm doing anti-oppression work, are you volunteering to do it instead?

Am willing to stop. Am not willing to agree that your idea of anti-oppression work is more accurate than mine. Am willing to discuss the possibility that this is the case--but not here.

Re: whose side?

[amadi]

I'm disinterested in having the discussion, period, in that case.

Re: whose side?

[keeva]

In short: She's not willing to have her privilege, and support of other privileges, challenged.