Archive for Race/Ethnicity
Content warning for discussion of the Canadian residential schools and other horrific anti-Indigenous behavior by governments. Background: For over 100 years, the Canadian government funded boarding schools that it forced 150,000 Indigenous children to go to. The schools were administered by various Christian churches. At least 2%, and possibly as many as 20%, of those […]
More about Fred Hampton, the Black Panther leader who was killed by Chicago police at age 21 in 1969. Starting with this 65-tweet thread (from 2020) about Hampton, and about ways in which we white Americans are often raised on lies about Black American history. Below are links to some of the pieces that that […]
I’m disappointed in the ACES Executive Board’s statement about the incident in which a presenter said the N-word during a presentation at ACES 2019. My post here is a long discussion of the Board’s statement—first my responses to what they wrote, then a description of some things I wish they had said, then a couple […]
Content warning for discussion of a white presenter’s use of a racial epithet. (In this post, I’m writing the standard euphemisms in place of the epithets that the presenter spoke aloud.) Last week, I attended the annual conference of ACES, an organization for editors. (Copyeditors, developmental editors, etc.) On the last day of the conference, […]
Am reading Defiance #2: a paperback magazine of the US revolutionary left, published in 1971, edited by Dotson Rader. Pretty interesting stuff. Articles include: Rader’s introduction, which recommends abandoning electoral politics in favor of joining the imminent revolution. A piece by two young white men who were part of the NYC branch of Weatherman (aka […]
I'm watching Underground season 2, episode 1, “Contraband,” and I just got to a scene in which one of the...
Nichelle Nichols on naming Uhura and on getting the part (transcribed by me from a making-of segment on the ST:TOS...
This is a long impassioned post in which I try to come to the defense of Marvel comics. The TL;DR...
Today is a Day of Remembrance: the 75th anniversary of FDR's executive order to incarcerate Japanese Americans. A bunch of...
Pete Seeger died three years ago yesterday, so my post about him came up in my Facebook history today. It...
I'm really looking forward to the new Ultimates comic book series. The team will consist of Ms. America, Black Panther,...
Spent way too much time reading comics over the past couple days when I should've been doing other stuff. But...