WHAT IS THIS I DON'T EVEN
They... all have brown hair. And the darkest one of them, from what I can tell in the doll videos on Mattel's site, is one of the "little sisters ( Read more... )

More ROTF flavored facepalming.

I've said before that I felt the Autobot Twins in Revenge of the Fallen were little more than unfunny offensive stereotypes spiffed up with CGI. Ugh.

But... this? Just no:

In regards to the obvious racial and minority stereotypes, this was the biggest conundrum of this movie. The audience was largely black and latino, ( Read more... )

Passing along the link to Fen of Color, United. :)

On that note, y'all have to read this wonderful little story from kittikattie , " Fairies Come in Brown," for it is made of wondermousness.

From tgstonebutch :

Mollena is teaching a class on race play this Tuesday night. And has received threats of violence regarding it. She is refusing to censor herself, and has gone public regarding the threats
I understand people really not liking this, but threatening a Black woman for doing race play, simply because you disagree that it's acceptable? What ( Read more... )

This is the coolest thing ever. A photo of President Obama bending down so that a young Black child can touch his hair, with the caption:

President Barack Obama bends over so the son of a White House staff member can pat his head during a family visit to the Oval Office May 8, 2009. The youngster wanted to see if the President's haircut felt like ( Read more... )

[EDIT: See comment thread. At the time I read the post, I did not realize it was a dig at a specific person. I do not agree with or support that dig. I was basing my opinions on the idea that the post was a response to certain flavors of white feminism that suggest that we're all tainted/infected until The Revolution.

Instead, it appears to have ( Read more... )

I've been trying to post a comment on the latest go-round of the "death threat" controversy on Bilerico, but when I submit my comments I get

"Text entered was wrong. Try again."

That's about the weirdest error message I've ever seen. Anyway, one follow-up post on Bilerico is here:

I'll be the first to say that Bil's blog post was poorly-worded and ( Read more... )

What was that I was saying the other day about what should count as incitement? (Yeah, this isn't actually about free speech issues; it's about blog moderation policies. Still, stay with me here.)

Over at Bilerico Project, a trans woman of color expressed her frustration with HRC in a particularly blunt way:
I want heads on a platter.

I want to see ( Read more... )

Okay, is it just me, or does this post (which I found surfing through RaceFail '09 links listed here) make an awesome point but do it in a really ableist way?

Look. This is the problem with trying to raise white people on Sesame Street in order to cure racism: you get a generation of white people who think it's to their credit that they hold ( Read more... )

...I don't really know what's going on; I bowed out of the discussion a LONG time ago because I think a lot of it gets unproductive, with authors going "hey, wait, this story belongs to me and therefore I can do what I want with it" and fans going "but this this this and this about appropriation and accurate depiction."

I fall so heavily on the " ( Read more... )