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The James Tiptree Jr. Award was announced at WisCon 15 by Pat Murphy in 1991 to honor and reward written Science Fiction and Fantasy that explores and expands gender. Although the Tiptree ceremony travels around the world (Boston MA, Oakland CA, England, Minneapolis MN, Fort Lauderdale FL), most of the ceremonies have been held in Madison; WisCon has been the award's strongest ally and supporter. Each year, WisCon holds an auction, runs a bake sale, sells Tiptree t-shirts and promotes Secret Feminist Cabal publications to help raise funds for the Tiptree Award. WisCon also promotes the award through its publications and programming.
More news on these Tiptree-related events and the winner of the Tiptree Award will be published on the Tiptree web page (www.tiptree.org) and in eCube.
2007: Nippon Worldcon, Yokohama, Japan
Click here to go to the Tiptree Website.
"World Domination through Bake Sales!" That's one of the slogans at Tiptree Juggernaut Headquarters. The Tiptree Award supports gender-bending SF/F, publishes, auctions, and loves chocolate chip cookies! A wide variety of cookies, breads, cakes, pies and delectables are baked and donated by Tiptree supporters. If you'd like to prepare some baked goods or other treats for the bake sale, please send a message to WisCon bakesale32@wiscon.info and we will tell you where to bring your goodies.
Baked goods can be purchased by-the-plate at the Tiptree Bake Sale on Saturday, 11:30 a.m.(during the lunch break). All proceeds are donated to the Tiptree Award. Yum!
This isn't your everyday fund-raising auction. At past Tiptree auctions,auctioneer/comedian Ellen Klages has auctioned off her own hair, Mary Doria Russell's brassiere, a hand-knitted uterus, a kangaroo-scrotum purse, a cherry pie, and a Xena lawn butt. Among some of the more sublime offerings have been vests hand-quilted by Kate Schaefer, silkscreened montage art created by Freddie Baer, sea creatures beaded by Vonda McIntyre, Calligraphy by Jae Adams, chapbooks hand-made by Ursula Le Guin, cakes decorated by Georgie Schnobrich, and texts annotated by Alice Sheldon. It's always lots of fun. All proceeds are donated to the James Tiptree, Jr. Award.
Anyone who would like to contribute something to the Tiptree auction at WisCon 32 can contact Jeanne Gomoll at auction32@wiscon.info. We'd love to have a list of items and an estimate of value for most of the items before the convention. With each item, please attach a card with your name, contact info, estimate of value, and (optional) your suggestion as to the minimum price that should be accepted. If you are the author or creating artist, please sign the piece!
If you plan on bringing auction items to WisCon with you, make sure you get them to us BEFORE the Gathering on Friday afternoon. Most items get viewed only at the Gathering. We have very limited (and cramped) display space in the Art Show and many people don't get a chance to see the auction display after the Gathering. If auction items don't get seen, they won't get bids ... and probably won't go to auction. Ideally, we'd like to receive items no later than Friday morning 11 am, so we have time to do the paperwork and arrange the display tables. Drop off your donations in the ballrooms, where Tiptree volunteers will be organizing the display. (And if you have an hour or two, please consider volunteering to help with the set-up.)
If you won't arrive by Friday morning, we would really appreciate it if you would mail your items to us before the convention.
The Tiptree Exhibit is located in the Gathering on Friday afternoon, and then in the Art Show. Auction items are displayed, and you may place bids on them before the Auction on Saturday evening. And some items are available for sale at any time, such as the Tiptree anthologies and cookbooks.