The 2020 Sirens Conference, “Sirens at Home”, an “intersectional, interdisciplinary conference on gender, fantasy lit, and other speculative spaces,” was held October 22-25, 2020, online in lieu of the usual Denver CO event. Amy Tenbrink and Hallie Tibbetts are the Sirens co-founders. Tenbrink was con chair and Tibbetts served as programming director. Tenbrink said, “In a year in which we all feel such isolation, we need each other more than ever.”
“Here be Dragons”: Faye Bi, Ausma Zehanat Khan, Alyssa Collins, Andrea Hairston, Diana M. Pho, Ren Iwamoto, Nilah Magruder (by Francesca Myman)
Over 500 people from around the world registered for the weekend, over twice the typical in-person attendance. Programming included two panels with discussion sessions, “Here Be Dragons: Gender and Speculative Spaces” and “Anxiety, Rage, and Attempting the Impossible in a World on Fire”, the Sirens ball (a virtual costume and dance party), and a wide variety of Zoom comm