Rap Stars File a Supreme Court Brief:

An array of leading hip-hop artists, including T.I., Big Boi and Killer Mike, filed a Supreme Court brief in support of a high school student punished for posting a rap song that drew attention to complaints about sexual harassment.
Hip hop artists explain the history of rap to the justices of the Supreme Court ( Read more... )

Maureen Ryan, one of my favorite TV critics, has just published an extensive series of articles on Peak Inequality: Investigating the Lack of Diversity Among TV Directors. The main article is supplemented with several in-depth interviews with showrunners, directors, and the ACLU director who asked the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to ( Read more... )

You all already know about Janelle Monáe's #BlackLivesMatter protest song, right?


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John Scalzi is matching donations made today to the Carl Brandon Society or the Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship Fund, up to $1000.

ETA: Arachne Jericho is matching donations to CBS or the Butler scholarship up to $1000, and donations to Con or Bust up to $500.


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Systemic sexism in sf/f
Nicola Griffith, Taking the Russ Pledge

SF Signal Mind Meld, What's the importance of the Russ Pledge for Science Fiction Today? Don't read the comments.*

Ann Leckie, Wiscon Thoughts 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 This is a multi-part series on selection bias in sf/f and culture generally -- a good 101 explanation.Kari Sperring ( Read more... )

For the past three weeks or so, I've been forced to contemplate deleting or locking down this livejournal because of harassment and privacy threats I've been receiving as a somewhat bizarre result of RaceFail09.

What's been going on
[quick eta - Kathryn has apparently been redirecting the pages where she outed me to some kind of spammer site that ( Read more... )

I am not putting this public just because I banned willshetterly a few years ago and I think it's tacky to make a public post warning people against him that he cannot comment on. But I am willing to be tacky in front of my friends! Never mind, I will be tacky in front of the world. It is worth it if I can spare someone the pain of attempting to argue with ( Read more... )

( If you're going to argue about a text's metaphorical or allegorical representations of race, you may want to take a look at how it treats *actual people of color* before forming your conclusions about the subversion of racial stereotypes. )

From here:

There are also a lot of victimized males (and children) in the show; Max, Andy, Scott or Jake try to fight back and don't succeed either and I am quite certain that you could make a just as violent and brutal video, only using footage with the male victims of the show. I guess, I just tend to see a character instead of a certain gender ( Read more... )