Day of Remembrance for the incarceration of Japanese Americans
Today is a Day of Remembrance: the 75th anniversary of FDR's executive order to incarcerate Japanese Americans. A bunch of...
Archive for Race/Ethnicity
Pete Seeger on helping
Pete Seeger died three years ago yesterday, so my post about him came up in my Facebook history today. It...
Awesome new forthcoming Ultimates series
I'm really looking forward to the new Ultimates comic book series. The team will consist of Ms. America, Black Panther,...
Marvel’s upcoming diverse comics
Spent way too much time reading comics over the past couple days when I should've been doing other stuff. But...
Deportees
Back in January 2014, I attended folksinger John McCutcheon's annual Santa Cruz concert, a benefit (as always) for the Resource...
Hamilton rap becomes a musical
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...
Oakland encounter
Yesterday evening, after leaving Kam's place in Oakland and putting a bunch of stuff into my car in the dark,...
Stop it with the all-white panels on diversity
At WorldCon in Glasgow in 2005, there were two panels about cultural appropriation in writing. In my memory (which may...
WisCon: be brave
Here are links to this year's WisCon guest-of-honor speeches, plus a couple of other items that seem to me to...
Diversity ads
I feel like there's been an amazing spate of pro-diversity advertising in the past week. Some links: A new Cheerios...
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Yesterday someone linked to Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail, and I realized that I had never read it...
The historical accuracy defense
Fairly often in discussions of sf, especially in discussions of epic fantasy, fans use the idea of historical accuracy to...