Archive for Race/Ethnicity
Back in January 2014, I attended folksinger John McCutcheon's annual Santa Cruz concert, a benefit (as always) for the Resource...
In 2009, composer/lyricist/performer Lin-Manuel Miranda performed an amazing hip-hop piece about Alexander Hamilton (5-min video, with mostly-accurate captions) at the...
Yesterday evening, after leaving Kam's place in Oakland and putting a bunch of stuff into my car in the dark,...
At WorldCon in Glasgow in 2005, there were two panels about cultural appropriation in writing. In my memory (which may...
Here are links to this year's WisCon guest-of-honor speeches, plus a couple of other items that seem to me to...
I feel like there's been an amazing spate of pro-diversity advertising in the past week. Some links: A new Cheerios...
Yesterday someone linked to Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail, and I realized that I had never read it...
Fairly often in discussions of sf, especially in discussions of epic fantasy, fans use the idea of historical accuracy to...
Here's a simple guideline that I wish more people in our society would follow: Don't touch other people without their...
Back in 2009, Liz H pointed to an essay that I liked: “Oppression,” by Marilyn Frye, from Frye's 1983 book...
I've been following the California Attorney General vote-counting with fingers crossed. Here's a quick recap for those who don't know...
Some political and quasi-political items: Interesting discussion of tensions within the Tea Party as they settle in to become part...