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...
Archive for Race/Ethnicity
Who does whitewashing hurt?
Ellen Oh, a Korean-American writer, is one of many people who've blogged about the shameful whitewashing of the cast of...
More about cover art
A few more assorted notes about cover art on books, especially with regard to issues of portrayals of characters of...
Chromatic comics
A fun LJ meme: casting various traditionally white comic-book characters as actors of color. There's a good starting point at...
Yet another whitewashed book cover
Ari at Reading in Color blogs about the latest YA fantasy novel with a whitewashed cover. Yep, it's yet another...
NKJ on positive aspects of RaceFail
Thoughtful and interesting post from N. K. Jemisin on why RaceFail was good for science fiction/fantasy. Excerpt: The angry questions that...
Designing for a physically diverse audience
A few things that seem kind of related to me: HP's face-tracking webcam apparently doesn't detect black faces as faces....
Dialogue about racism in fan communities
Smart and interesting discussion in the latest issue of Transformative Works and Cultures: "Pattern recognition: A dialogue on racism in...
Items: Miscellaneous
Really must clear out some browser windows. Squirrels: Y'all know about Crasher Squirrel? This couple was on vacation in Banff,...
Justine L on protagonists of color and book covers
Justine Larbalestier recently posted two excellent blog entries on topics related to protagonists of color: First: "Why My Protags Aren't...
A wiki about people of color in and around speculative fiction
One of the things you personally can do to help work against racism in the speculative fiction world is to...
Tempest and Ellison
(This is another one of those entries that will probably make no sense to people not involved in the speculative-fiction...