Worldcon is coming
Jul. 21st, 2020 05:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petrea_mitchellThe CoNZealand schedule is up! Here is where I begin living in fear until 1pm Wednesday New Zealand Time that someone on Twitter preemptively decides that the "Accessible Magic" panel is going to be all kinds of horrible and tries to start a firestorm about it.
Adding to my anxiety is that I sent out messages to my fellow panelists on the two panels I'm moderating a couple days ago, with the usual moderator stuff plus a request for them to let me know how they want to be addressed. (Since on Zoom you can't get away with "Could the panel please introduce themselves, starting from the far end?", you have to call on everyone by name.) I've only heard back from two people and one of them said they were trying to get removed because they didn't feel qualified to be on that panel.
Adding to my anxiety is that I sent out messages to my fellow panelists on the two panels I'm moderating a couple days ago, with the usual moderator stuff plus a request for them to let me know how they want to be addressed. (Since on Zoom you can't get away with "Could the panel please introduce themselves, starting from the far end?", you have to call on everyone by name.) I've only heard back from two people and one of them said they were trying to get removed because they didn't feel qualified to be on that panel.
