Liz Henry
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About Liz Henry
Liz Henry is a poet, translator, and editor as well as a computer geek and web developer. She has been publishing zines and small books since 1986, some under Riot Grrrl imprints and some under the imprints of Tollbooth Press and Burn This Press. For Aqueduct Press, she edited WisCon Chronicles Volume 3: Carnival of Feminist SF.
With Robert and Sanja Pesich, she edited an anthology of work by 12 San Francisco Bay Area poets, Cuts from the Barbershop. Liz has translated work by many Spanish American poets, including Carmen Berenguer, Nestor Perlongher, María Eugenia Vaz Ferreira, and Juana de Ibarbourou, and has written Toward an Anthology of Spanish-American Women Poets, 1880-1930, with her translations from Spanish to English of 42 poems by 25 women from 11 countries in the Americas. With Yehudit Oriah, she co-translated a book of poetry from Hebrew, Mandala: Tales of the Golden Doll. Her translations from Spanish to English of a poem cycle about the photographs of Francesca Woodman, by Zulema Moret, are in print in Barcelona and Buenos Aires as Un ángel al borde del volcán ardiendo.
She has also published poems and translations in journals like Poesy, Stone Telling, Specs, Verdad, Out of Our, Lodestar Quarterly, Two Lines, Xantippe, Parthenon West, O Sweet Flowery Roses, Cipactli, Convergence, eXchanges, Literary Mama, Strange Horizons, and Fantastic Metropolis. She has blogged and helped maintain feministsf.net with Laura Quilter and Janice Dawley for many years, and contributes to geekfeminism.org. Her main blog is at http://bookmaniac.org. She regularly speaks and moderates panels at science fiction cons and technical conferences.
She lives on a houseboat in the San Francisco Bay Area with her partner and their children, and is part of Noisebridge, an anarchist hackerspace collective in San Francisco.
With Robert and Sanja Pesich, she edited an anthology of work by 12 San Francisco Bay Area poets, Cuts from the Barbershop. Liz has translated work by many Spanish American poets, including Carmen Berenguer, Nestor Perlongher, María Eugenia Vaz Ferreira, and Juana de Ibarbourou, and has written Toward an Anthology of Spanish-American Women Poets, 1880-1930, with her translations from Spanish to English of 42 poems by 25 women from 11 countries in the Americas. With Yehudit Oriah, she co-translated a book of poetry from Hebrew, Mandala: Tales of the Golden Doll. Her translations from Spanish to English of a poem cycle about the photographs of Francesca Woodman, by Zulema Moret, are in print in Barcelona and Buenos Aires as Un ángel al borde del volcán ardiendo.
She has also published poems and translations in journals like Poesy, Stone Telling, Specs, Verdad, Out of Our, Lodestar Quarterly, Two Lines, Xantippe, Parthenon West, O Sweet Flowery Roses, Cipactli, Convergence, eXchanges, Literary Mama, Strange Horizons, and Fantastic Metropolis. She has blogged and helped maintain feministsf.net with Laura Quilter and Janice Dawley for many years, and contributes to geekfeminism.org. Her main blog is at http://bookmaniac.org. She regularly speaks and moderates panels at science fiction cons and technical conferences.
She lives on a houseboat in the San Francisco Bay Area with her partner and their children, and is part of Noisebridge, an anarchist hackerspace collective in San Francisco.
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Blog postSometime in mid-December I paused on the J.D. Robb “In Death” binge read and moved on to cozier fields: detective novels by M.C. Beaton (aka Marion Chesney), who died in December 2019. I read the complete Agatha Raisin series, easily plowing through 2 in an evening, and am now up to book 25 in the Hamish Mcbeth series. Hamish has a Scottish wildcat, a dog with oddly blue eyes, a once-per-book longing for a cigarette even though he quit, and about 5 ex-girlfriends who all happen to show up at1 week ago Read more
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Blog postThis weekend Danny and I went downtown to gawk in the aisles of Central Computers after Compupod didn’t have the external hard drive that I wanted. We combed through everything in the store just for fun. His amazing find was a tiny wireless keyboard which uses some sort of not-bluetooth protocol, and has a tiny trackpad built in, now hooked up to his Raspberry Pi which controls the projector and some lights by the bed. The interesting thing about that is he was looking it up while in the stor1 week ago Read more
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Blog postRead a bunch of zines at Rubin‘s house. He had a nice approach to recovering from surgery – invite everyone he knows to come over in about a 4 day period, more or less unstructured, to hang out with him and maybe bring food. I worked from his couch for an afternoon, admiring his smart house setup (http post to open his front door!) and then stayed for zines and all the people who dropped in after work. He has a lot of cool zines as he is collecting them to take to a queer zine archive in Hong1 month ago Read more
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Blog postMorning reading: Introduction to Hacking Diversity: The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures by Christina Dunbar-Hester. This is going to be fun since everyone I know is quoted in it (often pseudonymously) But no quotes from me (I think) as during the interview phase I was having some sort of major health flare-up. And if there’s ever a book where I should be obscurely in the footnotes somewhere it’s this one!
Though “diversity in tech” discourse is emanating from many qu1 month ago Read more -
Blog postMorning reading – Cottage Industry by William Cobbett. In which Cobbett, publisher of The Porcupine and The Political Register, explains the skills (and costs) necessary to run a household: brewing beer, baking bread, planting 3000 rods of cabbages and swedish turnips, keeping a cow, and so on. He really hates on “the villainous root” (potatoes) as well as on watered-down, non-nutritious beer and the Malt Tax which made it difficult for people to brew beer at home. Part of the hate on potatoe1 month ago Read more
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Blog postFrom “Imitation in Death”, which I find hard going because it is particularly disturbing as the murderer is imitating the styles of various serial killers. This was oddly comforting, amazingly meta, to come across right after I had skipped a chunk describing a brutal murder to get to the nifty police procedural/ detective stuff.
“Rape, Peabody was sure, just as she was sure it had to have been brutal. And she’d have been young. Before the job. Peabody had studied Eve’s career with the2 months ago Read more -
Blog postMorning reading. Ursula Franklin’s The Real World of Technology, 1990 (revised 1999). Franklin describes how, in a classroom, students are learning some particular thing, but are also picking up social skills “ranging from listening, tolerance, and cooperation to patience, trust, or anger management.” She then tells a story as a metaphor, of people who take … Continue reading "Collective implicit learning and the internet"2 months ago Read more
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Blog postI was only vaguely aware of Nora Roberts as a prolific writer of best sellers when a couple of weeks ago @mostlybree on Twitter said something about her science fiction detective series. They are written under the name J.D. Robb and there’s FIFTY in the series so far. How could I resist?
The science fiction elements are a thin but amusing veneer. It’s 20158 and there are flying cars! Mind control and subliminal messages! Hilarious computers that can barely do anything! Space travel in3 months ago Read more -
Blog postIn the park near our house on top of the hill, there’s a house that must belong to a teacher or school librarian, because there is always a cardboard box or two full of kids’ paperback books there, sometimes boring but sometimes the best sort of old, weird book. I had a stressful week at work and am feeling fed up so decided to dive into this gem from the free box.
It’s called The Saucepan Journey, it’s by Edith Unnerstad, first published in 1949, and is translated from Swedish. The b3 months ago Read more -
Blog postThis afternoon I was sweeping up leaves from the sidewalk when an old guy stopped to remark on how he thought it was a pretty house. He lives around the block on Santa Marina and has lived there since 1952 and in 1960 he nearly bought this house but his wife didn’t like it. We continued chatting.
I mentioned the history of the house as an earthquake shack. He told me how he moved here in 1947, worked 6 days a week very long hours and earned 14 dollars a week, but that was very quickly4 months ago Read more -
Blog postToday in weird old children’s books! (Which I like to read while I’m sick, and I’ve had a cold all week.) The Wide, Wide World (1850) by Susan Warner was the first book published in America to sell over one million copies! It’s the book that Jo March was reading in Little Women when someone discovers her reading and crying in a tree! Girls in *other* books are often reading it too!
The Wide, Wide World starts out in a tense, claustrophobic situation where 10 year old Ellen is hanging4 months ago Read more -
Blog postIt isn’t a terrible thing, but a revealing thing, that when I give a short description of the game project I’m working on, and include that you can play a blind or Deaf/deaf person or wheelchair user, people tend to make several assumptions. That the game is about the experience of frustration or pain, about inaccessibility, about barriers. And, that it’s for able bodied people to develop understanding or empathy. I’ve gotten this response so many times that I’ve stopped being surprised. But,5 months ago Read more
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Blog postOn the way to swim laps at Balboa pool I was congratulating myself, “Great how I didn’t even have to think to do this, just pick up my nicely organized swim bag with everything in it, and go!” As I started to get undressed in the locker room, realized I had forgotten to bring any towels.
Everyone in the locker room told me about times they had done this and just dried off with their tshirt (I did not look forward to doing this and then putting the shirt on!) Asked the lifeguard if I c5 months ago Read more -
Blog postFriday was the press conference EFF held to talk about their findings about Ola Bini’s situation. Here’s a blog post about it, In Ecuador, Political Actors Must Step Away From Ola Bini’s case, and video (English), EFF Press Conference On Arrested Security Researcher and Open Source Developer Ola Bini and Spanish.
After the conference we walked a while through La Mariscal but Danny was too tired to do much after his intense week of long work days, so after lunch we took a taxi back to6 months ago Read more -
Blog postOn Friday I learned the word “cabalgazo” which means a trail ride on horseback. I had looked at a few websites for “day trips” from Quito and contacted a few of them to see if they were open to transporting me and my wheelchair. Bus tours: no. Private tours with a driver: yes! I went with one from Rebecca’s Adventure Tours because the information on the site seemed very clear and there was an agent to chat with via the website so I could ask wheelchair related questions. Turns out there was n6 months ago Read more
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Blog postOn Wednesday I had a tour of the Presidential Museum in the Palacio Carondelet. To go on this tour you need to schedule a day in advance, providing your name and passport number over phone or email. Not difficult, but you can’t just drop in to take the tour. It’s well worth it – the museum was great, especially if you like old religious paintings.
When I got to the entrance where my 9:30am group was gathering, the tour guide and the guard stationed at the entrance had to call someone6 months ago Read more -
Blog postMy adventures today were very mild, as I am going out to dinner later and didn’t want to exhaust myself. So, I stuck to the Old Town area near the Plaza Grande.
Hot chocolate and a plate of tiny cheese empanadas on the Plaza – I had planned to write but instead ended up sitting with some tourists from Paris who didn’t want me to eat my breakfast alone. They were spending 5 weeks in Ecuador, must be nice! Then, I went to check out the tour of the Presidential Palace but found that I ha6 months ago Read more -
Blog postToday I wandered north through some parks, and then to some kind of marketplace for crafts which felt like 200 booths all selling the same exact stuff. I bought some tiny pouches and a stuffed guinea pig made of alpaca wool (for the cat). I ended up at a water park (where I had some delicious street food) and then the Jardín Botánico which was great but almost completely empty of people. I spent a while in the orchid house then at the bonsai exhibit, and then took the C1 Trolebu6 months ago Read more
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Blog postI forayed out this morning not sure what the city would be like. I took Ave. Guayaquil into Old Town and the first thing that struck me was being harangued by people on the street to take some ice cream. The little ice cream shops have soft serve machines facing right onto the sidewalk, and the young women staffing them prepare a couple of ice cream cones (held in a napkin) and offer them to people walking by or people in cars. (50 cents.) A lot of people strolling around in Old Town had ice6 months ago Read more
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Blog postIt was a good decision so far to break this trip in half. We did one short flight to Houston, stayed in the airport hotel, and will take off later today for Ecuador. I had a swim last night in the hotel pool so I even got in some exercise. This is in theory going to mean I’m not physically destroyed at the other end of the trip (and then on the way back we’ll stay in Houston a few days to visit my parents and grandma). So far so good!
I am planning to fritter away some time in the air6 months ago Read more
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