Many of you may be aware of e-moon60's recent racist, Islamophobic rant in which she indicated the depth of her contempt for Muslims and immigrants, among others, then deleted the over-500 comments taking her to task for her conduct. If not, you may want to avoid reading it while you're eating, to say the least ( Read more... )

Nominate for the 2008 Carl Brandon Society Awards until September 1 (not July 31 as it says on the webpage).

The Carl Brandon Society's Open Letter to the SF Community re: Ellison/Bradford Incident: "the Carl Brandon Society wishes to define some basic principles of discourse which were put into question as a result of this exchange. We hope ( Read more... )

The blog American Indians in Children's Literature examines Patricia Wrede's thinking as she wrote THE THIRTEENTH CHILD (a.k.a. the book behind MammothFail), and carefully dissects the unconscious racism revealed therein. Via jonquil.

Oyate is "a Native organization working to see that our lives and histories are portrayed honestly, and so that all ( Read more... )

Some Thoughts on Writing (or not writing) the Other and As Others See Us: More on Writing the Other are both thoughtful discussions of different pitfalls in writing or failing to write the "Other."

Via Torque Control.

• 50books_poc: Recs for Indigenous/Anti-Colonialist AUs, Indigenous History, POC SFF Traditions, and More!
• deadbrowalking: wild unicorn herd check in.: "If you identify as a POC/nonwhite person and you read or watch scifi or fantasy, give yourself a name check in this thread."
• Racialicious: How Do We View Global Hip Hop Culture? [Series Introduction: On Cultural ( Read more... )

More quick links: Benjamin Rosenbaum runs a statistical analysis of characters in his short story collection, which results in a number of insights, including some self-identified instances of fail-and, importantly, patterns of when they're likely to occur.

N. K. Jemisin gives examples of describing characters of color from her writing. (Related: ( Read more... )

I see, in reviewing last week's hasty get-the-comm-going posts, that my resources managed to not include anything explicitly about cultural appropriation. I want to fix that now, but because I'm massively behind on everything in my life right now, I'm asking for your help.

There's ibarw's delicious links on cultural appropriation, of course. And I have ( Read more... )