Uh, on Friday I had better things to post about. Maybe this is better for Monday anyway, idk. Also, these links have been kind of random.



Feminism and other Animals.

This ‘women in tech’ debate is actually two separate debates, and should be treated as such Caroline McCarthy breaks it down twicewise:
1) why aren't more women learning science and ( Read more... )

The comics blogosphere has a lot to answer for right now. The feminist comics blogosphere in particular has a lot to answer for. Not least for making me write the sentence I'm about to write:

I'm sick of hearing about Batwoman.

There, I've said it. Let me explain.

Greg Rucka is leaving DC Comics. He says there's no bad blood, and that he just ( Read more... )

The day after I posted the Chromatic Discworld, someone dropped me from her LiveJournal reading list and posted in her own LJ about I was "fucking racist and offensive" and she'd had her suspicions about me for years. Don't go looking for her - that's not the point of me sharing ( Read more... )

The reasons I haven't said much about the discussions of race in science fiction and fantasy that have been ricocheting around the relevant sections of the internet this year can be summed up by two points; I've been reading and listening more than having anything to say, and most of my friends have had better things to say than I have ( Read more... )

e Because there's bound to be one chromatic person (Sarah? Gina?) on my friendslist who hasn't seen this: Let's make it really clear, people. If you identify as a POC/nonwhite person and you read or watch scifi or fantasy, give yourself a name check in this thread. I am particularly wanting shoutouts from people who do not live in the US and who ( Read more... )

This video, produced by the intelligence behind the Waking Up blog, is a great factual rebuttal of the kinds of stories being put about by NOM and the tactics being used there. It was linked to by Slacktivist  in his fantastic post The Burkha-logic of NOM (and for bringing that to my attention, H/T to Andrew Hickey).
This points to the key ( Read more... )

And lo, this is what I have been doing today. Exciting, innit? New! now with extra #loudtweet editing! So stop your whining.

• 10:27 Race Bending: The AtLA race campaign tinyurl.com/dgbqcc #
• 10:27 Protest the Unethical Casting of "The Last Airbender" Petition: Can't hurt, takes a second. Please? tinyurl.com/cb3rra #
• 10:59 YouTube - batman icon's ( Read more... )

I really want to take a self indulgent moment and use this space to complain about people complaining. Because I'm sick of it.

Firstly, although I worry it somehow marks me out as anti-British, I'm sick of people complaining about the weather; but I'm ESPECIALLY sick of people complaining about people complaining about the weather.

( Snow! )

And lo, this is what I have been doing today. Exciting, innit?

• 09:38 Is my computer being slow or just Livejournal? #
• 11:10 I was not expecting people to be defending the use of the word 'gollywog'. I've been entrenched in my corner of the internet too long. #
• 11:57 Linkspam: BBC and sexism: Carol Thatcher is fired, Clarkson defended. tinyurl.com/ ( Read more... )

I'm rather relieved, actually, that everyone's talking about the cast for the upcoming movie of Avatar: the Last Airbender, and talking about my greatest concern above all: The cast is all white.

For those not familiar with the  source material, Avatar is a superior quality children's cartoon based around four separate nations with very distinct ( Read more... )