Massage! (via postie)

[ellie]

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Those of you who have been coming to Escapade for 10 years or more may remember Nicola, who provided massage services to Escapade members in years gone by. She has moved to northern California, but may be back in the area next weekend. She¹d love to offer massage again, if there are folks who want it. As a longtime friend of the convention, she would offer a discount rate of $45/hour, and could provide up to 4 massages per day.

If you¹d be interested in scheduling a massage, please drop me an email at jennifer@escapadecon.net. If anyone remembers getting massage from Nic in days gone by, feel free to share your memories.

–Jenn

Mirrored from an original post on Escapade 2010: The slash slumber party!

if you're interested in academia and fandom

[the_shoshanna]

You may know that the Escapade panel on academia and media fandom this year is a reprise of a panel at Escapade 1993, which was one of the first con panels (though not the very first) to look at the way academia was looking at us. I did both that one and one a few months earlier (at Gaylaxicon 1992). Both panels were taped and transcribed, and with the permission of everyone identified in the transcripts, I circulated them in hardcopy in fandom for many years.

Now it's a new era, fan studies has expanded hugely as more and more fans have entered the field themselves, and people may be interested to look back at where we came from. Henry Jenkins has been kind enough to post those transcripts to his blog, starting today: his blog is here, and here is the permalink to the first half of the Escapade panel, which is going up first. The other posts will follow shortly! If you're thinking of coming to this year's panel, you may like to look back and see how the conversation was happening seventeen long years ago.

(Please note that I re-contacted every fan identified in the transcripts and asked what name they'd like to be identified by in the web posting. Where I could no longer reach someone, I used initials. Some names on the web versions are therefore different from those you may remember if you were at one of the original panels or had a copy of one of the original hardcopy transcripts. If you recognize someone, please do not connect these transcripts to them under any other name than the one that's on the transcript itself. What I mean is, if you see a remark credited to MS or Mary or Mark Sam, do not say "Hey, Mary Sue is in the transcript!" anywhere public, even if you know that the person in the transcript is the person you know as Mary Sue.)

Enjoy!