Listening to this lecture this morning and it is *so good.* I finished reading The Poppy War last night and am now a little obsessed; I ordered the other two books in the series.

Her points are super interesting. Waaaaay back ca. 2000 I took an Asian American Lit class, taught by a white person, and while I really enjoyed the class there was very ( Read more... )

Bookmark: He Wants to Save Classics From Whiteness. Can the Field Survive? By Rachel Poser

Snippets:

If one were intentionally to design a discipline whose institutional organs and gatekeeping protocols were explicitly aimed at disavowing the legitimate status of scholars of color,” he said, “one could not do better than what classics has done.” ( Read more... )

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- I'm literally pumping the air every time they talk about socioeconomics and the uni students wondering where their next meal is coming from versus the ones wondering what club to go to that night.

- ooh talking about covid and racial data now

- Talking about eliminating the phrase "not racist" because you're either racist or anti-racist, you're ( Read more... )

 I've caught snippets of this building the last couple weeks, but hadn't caught all of it, and of course this has been an ongoing issue for YEARS. If you are active in fandom and/or fan studies, and use AO3, please consider signing:

Open Letter to the OTW on Racism in Fandom

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"You should try coming in through the front door sometime!"

"Helen Cho, Age of Ultron, and Representation Feels" by Nicole Soojong Callahan

With Helen Cho in Age of Ultron, we get an Asian woman in a big-budget major motion picture who ( Read more... )

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Via The Mary Sue.

“Nerds don’t have a problem with women,” said host Larry Wilmore, “they have a problem with change.” He then asked the panelists if the whiny manbabies of the internet are racist, sexist, or just gross gatekeeping nerds, to which Amanat replied, “All of the above.” Killin’ it.

"The Great Internet Debate Over Not Reading White Men" by Saladin Ahmed

'Bestselling author' is, functionally, a job. And nearly every single one of those jobs goes to a white person (quite often a white man). When women still make only seventy five cents for every dollar that men make, and 98% of the New York Times bestseller list is composed of ( Read more... )

To start with, there's an upset in Agent Carter fandom on the absence of POCs in 1940s NYC. Tamora Pierce stepped into it by stating that "If you mean the cast is primarily white, it’s the 40s. Which is more offensive to you: black help and blacks in service, or no blacks? I would like to see more POC, yes, but that was the time, and I’m not sure ( Read more... )

I am not quite hate-watching the show; Scott enjoys it much more than I do, as he thinks it is much more "serious" than, say, Supernatural. I find the writing really clunky, and some of the monsters of the week are just boring or stupid. (I'm thinking particularly of the one with the Rom chick and the miners, and also, the fuck is with Pennsylvania ( Read more... )