Hello, dreamwidth! I miss you ( Read more... )

The WisCon vid party (
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And in particular, the latest explosion wherein Elizabeth Bear declared that all her seeming engagement with the critiques of her portrayal of racialized groups had only been for the sake of looking good, that nonetheless she is guilty of no wrong and everyone should stop talking now...

This pretty much says it all. I don't think it even needs any ( Read more... )

I've had an unproductive today, which is bad, because I really do need to get to figuring some stuff out about my dissertation. And I'm exhausted, for no very good reason ( Read more... )

I just got a message from counteragent saying that she, laurashapiro and cesperanza want to show "The Future Stops Here" at Vividcon in their panel on "vids that push the envelope"!! I am very, very excited, I only wish I were going to be there ( Read more... )

Okay, so I've been commenting all over the latest incarnation of Queer Female Space Discussion in fandom. Highlights include kalpurna here, mskatej here, and cryptoxin here and here, as well as the excellent flocked post by cathexysI've posted a fully academicized paper on the subject already, flocked (because I always flock my academic work when I post it); but I'd like to raise ( Read more... )

I had considered posting about the episode of Heroes from last night, but laurashapiro said it all.

( Saying it anyway: things that pissed me off in Heroes 2.03 )

I declared that my Jackie Kay post was a sidetrack from a larger point, but I never got around to saying what the larger point actually was. This is it, and it's an exhortation to non-Americans -- in particular, to non-American, Western white folk like me -- not to disregard online (and offline) discussions of race and racism because they seem US- ( Read more... )

I was trying to attempt some kind of post about local, American and transnational manifestations of racism and antiracist practice, but my typing fingers want me to tell you about one of my favourite writers first. I'm not sure whether this could count as a proper ibarw post, but it's a great bundle of fangirl squee for a poet of colour and has some ( Read more... )