RaceFail ‘09 and Kallisti Press
So there’s been a big thing over the internets recently, and a lot of people have become very angry over some really stupid things that some other people have said. Specifically, those things have been about race and the depictions thereof in science fiction and fantasy. At this point, so many stupid things have been said that it’s far beyond my ability to itemize them. Suffice to say: there’s a lot of white guys in sf/f - both in the fiction and in the publishing industry that produces the fiction - and there’s a lot of other folks who’d like to see themselves in sf/f - both in and out of the fiction. Which you’d think would be a pretty straightforward proposition with some immediate support, even from white guys. Apparently not so much.
So this is my very small contribution to the thing (which cannot even be said to be a debate at this point). This white guy would like to see some more diversity in sf/f, and when I write and publish, there will be (and has been) characters who are not white guys who are more than token color in the background. I’m not going to wade into the crazy that is the blood-orgy internet dogpile that is RaceFail ‘09, because I’m not equipped to do much good there, so I will, outside of this post, confine my efforts to what I produce. That is, I wager, the most effective thing that I can do.
Mirrored from Kallisti Press.