This volume explores some of the issues of interest at WisCon 2007: gender, race, culture, revolution, and the future of thinking about those matters. It offers a selection of scholarly essays, comments, arguments, emotive yelps, appeals to reason, scathing replies, and fears and hopes for the future collected from participantswriters, academics, bloggers, activists, and fans, some of them WisCon veterans and some attending for the first timeincluding Kelly Link, Laurie Marks, Nicola Griffith, Catherynne M. Valente, Wendy Walker, and others.