Teresa Nielsen Hayden
| Name: | Teresa Nielsen Hayden | |
| Also Known As: | TNH | |
| Occupation: | Editor, Moderator, Writer | |
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| Official Website(s): | Making Light -- books she has edited -- her Wikipedia page | |
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| On Fanlore: | Related pages | |
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General
Teresa Nielsen Hayden is a professional science fiction editor (mostly for Tor books), science fiction fanzine writer, essayist, and writing teacher. She has been nominated for a Hugo Award five times, including for Best Fan Writer and Best Fanzine, and reads media fanfic. [1] She's also known for the website she shares with her husband, Making Light, where she became the first moderator to use disemvoweling to handle offensive posts; the term itself was coined in a post by Arthur Hlavaty [2] on Making Light.
Making Light has had many oft-cited threads on fanfic, on copyright, and author's reactions to fanfic, on slash (especially this filking one, here), on pundit slash and other topics of interest to media fandom. She popularized Ellen Fremedon's Id Vortex concept on Making Light, and both she and her husband have been strong supporters of fanfiction (especially during the entire Marion Zimmer Bradley controversy about fanfic in Darkover).
Role in RaceFail '09
While for years TNH was widely respected for her support of fanfiction and the many other useful posts she made, large sections of media fandom were shocked and disappointed when she plunged into RaceFail '09 on the Fail side. After her husband deleted his journal due to rising anger over comments he'd made, TNH made several comments herself with racist overtones.[3] While her die-hard supporters continued to support her, others attempted to reason with her. As people continued to call TNH out on her comments, she became livid and went on the attack. The situation escalated until a close friend of TNH's eventually 'outed' the RL name of one of her main critics. TNH herself threatened to use her position as a professional editor to hurt those who didn't agree with her, but denied that this was a threat. Her actions were extensively catalogued as they occurred, in part to combat thread-deletion and locking [4]. The larger RaceFail controversy can be followed at the link-aggregating journal of Rydra Wong.
References
- ↑ Making Light comment by TNH on the Punditslash thread. November 14th 2006.
- "Here's the deal: there's some fanfiction I like purely for its own sake -- Barb Cummings, Marcus Rowland, A.J. Hall, et cetera. And then there's slash, which I regard with the respectful fascination of an anthropologist who is never going to join the tribe".
Accessed 1 November 2008.
- "Here's the deal: there's some fanfiction I like purely for its own sake -- Barb Cummings, Marcus Rowland, A.J. Hall, et cetera. And then there's slash, which I regard with the respectful fascination of an anthropologist who is never going to join the tribe".
- ↑ May 14th 2007. Cory Doctorow. How To Keep Hostile Jerks From Taking Over Your Online Community. Accessed 1 November 2008
- ↑ 26 January 2009. Teresa Nielsen Hayden. I'm taking this about as well as you'd expect. Accessed 25 April 2009
- ↑ 31 January 2009. Chopchica. TNH: The Fail Years. Accessed 1 May 2009
