Fandom: Oh, Hugo, Where Have HuGone

[escritoireazul]

If I had an active fannish Twitter or Tumblr, I would have added to my profile: 100% Absolutely Positively Not a Hugo Award Winner. But I don't, so I shan't.

The Fanlore write-up of the controversy.

This is really putting me off the Hugos and Worldcon. Feels like another cultural clash in SFF, and I am really fucking tired of them. They're necessary and good changes can come out of them, but so tired.

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[escritoireazul]

Oooh, I should look at what they posted about it. Some of the lawyer talk from all these white dudes has driven me to drink. Which then made me laugh, since I've been doing trademark legal work all week and then seeing their crap in my fun fannish time.

[kore]

She was great! I don't even know that much about it, but this is the best tweet

https://twitter.com/rahaeli/status/1174704966822445057

Attempting to chill constitutionally protected nominative speech about a registered service mark that is insufficiently famous for dilution protection is censorious legal thuggery. There is a nationwide network of first amendment lawyers who will explain this to you.

Isn't that kickass?

[escritoireazul]

It is brilliant, and I'm so glad I saw the full post Denise did about it later.