Joss and Firefly and race, oh my!
I was going to write this a long time ago, but you know me and my inability to write anything substantial that isn't about imagined boy dramas, so. That was the disclaimer. Oh, here's another one: I'm going to forgo transitions in this entry, because I can't be arsed to figure out how to string all these thoughts together. Transitions are going
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First of all, submit this baby to [info]the_cortex!
Awww, thanks! Most of my LJ is f-locked, but I am keeping this open in case people want to comment on it and/or read it without being on my f-list.
Remember the famous Star Trek story Nichelle Nichols...
I hadn't heard that story, but it's exactly what I was thinking. It does count to see yourself represented, because the media you consume in part shapes what you think of yourself.
(see also: Armistead Maupin's comments in The Celluloid Closet)
!!! I read parts of that book for my paper for a Women & 1950s class during my senior spring! It's awesome when things you have to read become things you reference in non-school things, no?
In the end, I come back to the story I read in Ebert's review of Better Luck Tomorrow...
Dude. The events in BLT came nearly directly from the events that happened AT MY HIGH SCHOOL (the "Honor Roll murders") a few years before I got there. Though the filmmakers won't say it, everybody who lives in my community knows where the film's plot came from, because it followed the true story so closely.
More than that, though, I still read the blog of the lead actor from BLT (http://www.xanga.com/parryshen) and it's a good inside look at the things Asian-American actors have to go through in order to balance taking jobs for the money versus standing their ground about unfairly written roles.
Oh, and thanks for the link to Margaret Cho's blog. I don't quite "get" the Harajuku girls, either.
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