It is late and I am tired but I have one more thing to say about tonight's Hugo ceremony.

I still slip and say that I'm a Campbell winner. It's what it says on my "employee of the month at Best Western" plaque, which is on my wall!

They didn't send me, or any other past winner that I'm aware of, a new award. I was excited to be nominated for the Campbell. To win the Campbell, to wear the Campbell tiara. I have drawn comic strips referencing it by name.

The man was a fucking fascist. We renamed it.

We renamed it for EXCELLENT reasons, and tonight we as a community rewarded @jeannette_ng with a Hugo, our highest honor, for making sure no one could pretend not to know those reasons anymore.

If you ask me to list my awards for some weird reason, I'm likely to say "I won a Campbell...an Astonishing...shit. They thought I was the Best New Writer, so they gave me a plaque to hang on my wall and a neat pin."

If you ask me that question while I'm PRE-RECORDING a segment for a LIVE AWARDS SHOW, during which I myself will mostly not be live, I will ask you to stop the recording and let me go again.

Saying the award's old name multiple times in pre-recorded segments is not "a slip of the tongue" or "being set in your ways," it is saying "I think this great man should have been allowed to keep his great man achievements."

And no one is taking those achievements away! We're just not forcing new authors to carry his name on their resume! The man died long, long before he could ever have seen and doubtless rejected my work! Why should I be associated with him? Why should any of us?

He did not know me. I did not know him. He would undoubtedly, based on what we know from the man's own words, not approve of me. I do not approve of him.

Continuing to refer to the award by its own name while giving someone who is fundamentally irrelevant to the modern field a tongue-bath at every opportunity is insulting to all those of us who responded to @jeannette_ng's award-winning speech with "you know what? She's right."

You're not "speaking truth to power." Or "keeping us from erasing our history." Our history is right there in the books. It cannot be erased.

We do not have to keep honoring it.

Again, I would ask to go again: "Continuing to refer to the award by its old name while giving someone who is fundamentally irrelevant to the modern field a tongue-bath at every opportunity is insulting..."