Accessibility is the law. I would expect that any money I spend on event tickets sales would go toward ensuring that people who pay to get in or are asked to attend are able to either get their money’s worth or effectively make the appearance they’ve been asked to make.

I reached out to Joseph T. Berlant, the chair of this year’s World Fantasy Convention, and he responded that Ness’ problems were “the only incident reported” at the convention.

Certainly some publishing companies have been more likely to accept work by men than by women, and that’s part of the problem. There’s also a certain amount of bias in publishing that women only write fantasy, while men write science fiction, especially “hard” science fiction. So women writing science fiction are less…