Fans-of-color convention assistance project auction ends tonight
There's a project called Con or Bust that provides financial aid to "fans of color who want to attend SFF... (More...)
There's a project called Con or Bust that provides financial aid to "fans of color who want to attend SFF... (More...)
Ellen Oh, a Korean-American writer, is one of many people who've blogged about the shameful whitewashing of the cast of... (More...)
A few more assorted notes about cover art on books, especially with regard to issues of portrayals of characters of... (More...)
A fun LJ meme: casting various traditionally white comic-book characters as actors of color. There's a good starting point at... (More...)
Ari at Reading in Color blogs about the latest YA fantasy novel with a whitewashed cover. Yep, it's yet another... (More...)
Thoughtful and interesting post from N. K. Jemisin on why RaceFail was good for science fiction/fantasy. Excerpt: The angry questions that... (More...)
A few things that seem kind of related to me: HP's face-tracking webcam apparently doesn't detect black faces as faces.... (More...)
Smart and interesting discussion in the latest issue of Transformative Works and Cultures: "Pattern recognition: A dialogue on racism in... (More...)
Really must clear out some browser windows. Squirrels: Y'all know about Crasher Squirrel? This couple was on vacation in Banff,... (More...)
Justine Larbalestier recently posted two excellent blog entries on topics related to protagonists of color: First: "Why My Protags Aren't... (More...)
One of the things you personally can do to help work against racism in the speculative fiction world is to... (More...)
(This is another one of those entries that will probably make no sense to people not involved in the speculative-fiction... (More...)
I wasn't going to post any more tonight, but this is way too good not to share: The idea of... (More...)
I've been aware for a while now of the penchant that many white writers have for using food metaphors to... (More...)
A long discussion of anonymity and pseudonymity. (More...)
An awful lot of us white sf writers, when we run into issues and arguments about race, give various reasons... (More...)
Those of you involved in the online sf world almost certainly know that much of the sf blogosphere has been... (More...)
I had been kind of annoyed the past few days to hear various people respond to the "Obama is an... (More...)
This past week has been International Blog Against Racism Week, and I've been so out of touch that I nearly... (More...)