(I am adding new things to the end of this post today, and may add more as the discussion continues online.)
What I've said on social media:
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James Tiptree, like HP Lovecraft, has been canceled.
Tiptree Name Will Be Removed from Award | File 770
2
I also support this theory about Tiptree and her husband.
A great female writer has been canceled because of her last tragic days.
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I keep thinking about what's wrong with cancelling James Tiptree. I understand why her husband might want to die. I am fine with the idea of Emma killing me at such a time. I would only hope she would hide the evidence and go on to live a wonderful life.
Should they rename the Tiptree Award, too? / Boing Boing
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Say what you will about 1984, it explains the authoritarian left's love of memory holes.
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Neoliberals and socialists take very different views of #JamesTiptree/Alice Sheldon taking part in what seems to have been a suicide pact. Neoliberals blame individuals, so they blame her. Socialists blame society for not supporting people when they most need it.
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When someone quibbled about her work for the government, I answered
That has nothing to do with the fact that she was a brilliant short story writer, and the award that bore her name had nothing to do with politics until its name was changed for political reasons.
I hate making artists' lives more important than their art.
