My Wiscon schedule

[redbird]

I don't have tickets yet, so am not sure when I will be arriving or departing (even assuming, for the moment, that nothing goes wrong with the flights), but here's my programming schedule:

Size Acceptance 101 Fri 9:00 - 10:15PM Senate B
Moderator: Joanna Lowenstein. Panelists: Joanna Lowenstein, Shayla Dunn, The Rotund, Betsy Lundsten, Vicki Rosenzweig

What is the Size Acceptance Movement? What is it not? What is this business about fat not being unhealthy? How does this movement fit into the feminist movement?

Would You Let Your Daughter... Sun 4:00 - 5:15PM Senate A
Moderator: Vicki Rosenzweig. Panelists Jennifer Heaton, Ann Leckie, Maevele Straw

What have you done or watched that you don't want your children, either literal or figurative, to do or watch? Do you protect the next generation by not exposing them to certain things, or by explaining the politics in them? Would you let your daughter wear a original Star Trek miniskirt? What do you not want them to do?

The second is me offering my general moderator skills, not because I have specific opinions on this (I'm counting on the panel there). I should probably come up with some questions beyond what's in the panel description.

I want to try planning some social stuff in advance, to avoid feeling at loose ends. I'm traveling alone this time.

Comments

[adrian_turtle]

In moderating the second panel, it might be more useful to come up with a different kind of question than more interesting values of X for "would you let your daughter X?" For any X where "would you let your daughter X?" is even slightly controversial, it's worth asking:
"What risks or problems do you associate with X?"
"Are they problems for everybody? Just for girls? Just for children prone to nightmares? Just for readers who don't know how to think critically about comedy?"

It looks like a panel setup where it would be easy for people to talk past each other.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

I think a useful question might be "How old is your daughter?" Because the answers are really different for a six year old and a sixteen year old, and that tends to get elided in discussions like this, where people slide between one and the other as suits the points they want to make.