batsignal!!!

[unusualmusic_lj_archive]

So if you are POC and read scifi and fantasy? Drop in over here and represent please? This is so goddamn awesome that I can't even describe it!


Also, watch Star Trek. That is all. :D



EDIT: There is a new racefail blowup, which was the impetus for the batsignal

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[kali921.livejournal.com]

From a random white woman that you don't know, thank you SO MUCH for posting a link to this. This brought tears to my eyes. It's so good to see this. (I'm still so angry with what Lois McMaster Bujold has been saying that I can't even articulate it. She used to be one of my very favorite sff authors.) I have this absurd desire to friend every single person posting there just to say "I see you, I see you, you've always been visible to me and I support you," but I don't want to be a creeper.

[unusualmusic.livejournal.com]

You're welcome!:DD


It's so good to see this.

We are EVERYWHERE. And they can't pretend not to see us anymore.

[kali921.livejournal.com]

I've always seen PoC in my SF/F fandoms. That's why Bujold's claims just made my jaw drop. She claims that history is inviolable, that it just happened and it's gone, then goes on to make a cognitive error that because she hasn't personally experienced encountering fen of color before the internet that they must not exist. She's attempting to write history by doing this. Now she's being corrected on that assumption, and thus her own perception of history needs to be revised. The contradiction is so inherent in her thought process.

[winterfox.livejournal.com]

...what does she mean with "managed"?

[unusualmusic.livejournal.com]

she's being heavily sarcastic. There is a blowup, and this published author asshole went :

The other and more hopeful point is that never before have so many Readers of Color existed to *have* the conversation, or been able to communicate with each other to do so. When I went to my first midwestern convention in 1968, there was exactly one black fan, male; it's only in late years that I've had cause to wonder how brave he must have been to venture in. Octavia Butler, at a library program, once described a young black reader meeting her as a black SF writer, and saying in some wonder, "I didn't know we *did* that!" As far as I can tell, the biggest single factor driving the current shift and growth in diversity in genre readers has been the invention of the Internet.

This is the first occasion I know of that a book out of the former tradition has intersected the new audience.
you really need to read the whole reply. Flames. on . the. side. of my. face. And on delux's. Everyone went nuclear.

[winterfox.livejournal.com]

Wow. Seriously? I'm glad I've never picked up any of this retard's books.