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Welcome to Beyond Victoriana!
Welcome to Beyond Victoriana!
Thank you for your curiosity in stumbling upon this corner of the world!Beyond Victoriana had been active from 2009 – 2019, but is no longer updated. The articles will still be available, so please check them out in the Index and our Special Features pages.Much appreciation goes out to our supporters over the years. You can keep in touch at dianampho.com for any inquiries, steampunk or…
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What I Wrote & Edited in 2019
That Awards Promo Post: What I Wrote & Edited in 2019
It’s the beginning of listy-season, and looking back on 2019, here’s everything I had wrote & edited in the past year. Again, I am eligible for the Hugo for Best Editor, Long Form, but moreover, I invite you to consider my authors as well for this year’s nominating season (especially new titles which are eligible for the Hugo for Best Graphic Novel and Best Series, which I highlight below, but…
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Or, why the Mercator Projection is rarely used nowadays.
It was revolutionary when it was first invented because it represents vessels’ straight courses as straight lines, making navigating ships much easier. But that was in 1569. And cartography has become a much more advanced science these days.
Autumn Travels
Autumn Travels: Chicago Steampunk Exposition, New York Comic Con & more!
This fall, I have a series of travels lined up. Details below!
Next weekend, I’ll be a special guest at Chicago Steampunk Exposition, where my schedule is part of their A-List programming, so folks with have double the opportunity to see my panels.
Friday, September 27 So You Want to Publish Your Steampunk Book 6:00 PM in Lakeshore A
Saturday, September 28 Steam Around the World: Steampunk…
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New Publication! Mimicry: A Short Play Earlier this year, I was invited to submit a creative work for the Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement…
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WorldCon 2019 Schedule
My WorldCon 2019 Schedule #DublinWorldCon @Dublin2019
This summer has been hyper-focused on travel for me, but I hadn’t been as active in posting my plans online — sorry about that! I’ve had a whirlwind last few weeks of travel from ReaderCon to the Cascade Writer’s Conference to RWA and now Dublin is just around the bend. I’ll be seeing authors and agents (or stopping by the various parties going on), but if you want to pin me down at specific…
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An Unexpected Anniversary -- 10 years as Ay-leen the Peacemaker and Neo-Victorian Studies
Today, I got a pleasant and long-awaited email: Neo-Victorian Studies published their special issue about “Neo-Victorian Asia”, which is guest edited by Elizabeth Ho, Assistant Professor of University of Hong Kong. My contribution,”Analog Incarnations: Steampunk Performance Across Time” focuses on the power of marginalized performance in steampunk subculture, and it includes the short,…
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Con or Bust: Get Involved!
Signal-boosting: Help Con or Bust continue its work supporting PoC in fandom. Apply for their Board by January 25!
Signal boosting an awesome organization that I’ve mentioned a couple of times before, Con or Bust!For those unfamiliar with them, they are a non profit who provides financial assistance to fans of color to attend SFF conventions. They’re looking for new Board members* to help manage their workload for the coming year and are receiving applications for those interested in participating. Some…
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What I edited and wrote in 2018
Ringing in 2019 with a retrospective list of what I edited last year. For those wondering, I am eligible for Best Editor, Long Form again (though I understand that nomination window has closed for Dublin! That’s what happens when you lose track of time during the holidays ^^;;) but I invite you to consider my authors as well for this year’s nominating season. You can look into more info on my…
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My WorldCon 76 Schedule
My WorldCon 76 Schedule
My first WorldCon is just around the corner! Below is my schedule, and I’d like to give kudos to Mary Robinette Kowal and the rest of the WC team for all of their hard work with the programming overhaul. I’m really excited to be on board on a wide range of panels. Agents & authors can reach out if you are interested in booking a meeting in my off-time.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 17 10 – 11 AM Young Adult:…
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Hath No Fury – Now up for Pre-Order Back in 2016, editor Melanie Meadors reached out about my interest in being involved in an anthology she had in the works focusing on stories that defy female stereotypes.
Arranging the Seder Plate in Judeo-Arabic Tradition
I have a (modest but growing) collection of vintage haggadot with Judeo-Arabic translation, and they contain a lot of fascinating information not just about different dialects and vocabularies of Judeo-Arabic (which is why I originally started) but also about Passover traditions in general.
One common image or diagram at the front is the arrangement of the seder plate, called in some traditions as-sistu or at-tabaq or as-siniya in others. Many North African communities used a reed basket rather than the metal or porcelain tray common in other traditions. The items on the seder plate, as you see, are arranged in a Qabbalistic formation which corresponds to the ten sephirot:
The three matzot for keter, hokhma, and bina.
The egg (al-bayda) for gevurah and the shankbone (ad-dra’) for hesed.
The maror (translated in one haggada as hinduba, “chicory”) for tiferet.
The karpas for hod and the haroset (known as hileq or haliq in Iraqi tradition) for netzah.
The hazeret for yesod.
The seder plate itself representing the lowest sephira, Malkhut.
The haggadot here are: 1. Algerian (printed in Livorno), 1856. 2. Tunisian (printed in Tunis), 1930s or 40s. 3. Algerian (printed in Vienna), 1890. 4. Moroccan (printed in Casablanca), 1930s or 40s 5. Iraqi (printed in Jerusalem), 1940s. 6. My own summary and diagram, from this booklet, 2012.
Happy #TransDayOfVisibility to my trans siblings out there! Have a wonderful day and keep being amazing!!
The finalists for the 2018 Hugo Awards and the 1943 Retrospective Hugo Awards have been announced! You can read the full list below. 1813 valid nominating ballots (1795 electronic and 18 paper) wer…
So, the cat’s outta the bag….first year eligible, first Hugo nom, and I’m proud of my willpower that kept me quiet for the past week and a half…XD
Much 💖 to my fellow Editor, Long Form nominees Sheila E. Gilbert, Joe Monti, Devi Pillai, Miriam Weinberg and Navah Wolfe!!! Plus, squee & congrats to all the noms (plus, the John Campbell noms, and WSFS for Best YA!)
What I edited in 2017 aka my #AuntieEditor list
It’s that time of year for award nominations, and so, for your consideration, here is a list of all I edited in 2017. Some books are steampunk, some are not, but all are simply fabulous! I appreciate any support for my authors; several of them have made the 2017 Locus Recommended Reading List (huzzah!) This is also the first year that I qualify for Best Editor, Long Form, and hey, if you liked…
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Steampunk Hands Around the World 2018 - Master Link List
Steampunk Hands Around the World 2018 – Master Link List
Boosting! For the fifth year, the Airship Ambassador is hosting Steampunk Hands Around the World. Check out the link list & follow along on social media all month long!
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Update: Arisia and Festival International de la Bande Dessinée in Angoulême & announcing The Salam Award for Imaginative Fiction
This January, I have the pleasure of attending two conventions I’ve never been to before. The first is Arisia in Boston,, where I’ll be on the following panels: Diversity: Still Knows What We Did Last Summer Marina 2 – Sat 1:00 PM Last summer, Fireside Fiction found that of 2039 short stories published in the US in 2015, 38 were written by black authors. As we talk about diversity in SFF, what…
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