Deportees
Back in January 2014, I attended folksinger John McCutcheon's annual Santa Cruz concert, a benefit (as always) for the Resource...
Archive for Race/Ethnicity
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...
Body autonomy
Here's a simple guideline that I wish more people in our society would follow: Don't touch other people without their...
Frye on oppression
Back in 2009, Liz H pointed to an essay that I liked: “Oppression,” by Marilyn Frye, from Frye's 1983 book...
Election returns are looking good for Kamala Harris
I've been following the California Attorney General vote-counting with fingers crossed. Here's a quick recap for those who don't know...
Links: political
Some political and quasi-political items: Interesting discussion of tensions within the Tea Party as they settle in to become part...