It's nternational Blog Against Racism Week. For more details, go to the ibarw or refer to the explanatory post. IBARW has motivated me to finish writing up some old posts ( Read more... )

RaceFail 2009 is like a circle of hell where you end up going round and round and getting nowhere. This could be because it's so big, it's hard to keep up with what's been going on. Thus, this post.

Previously... ( Read more... )

rydra_wong has a links roundup on how W**l Sh*****ly and Kathryn Cramer have misrepresented, and outed some of the participants in RaceFail 2009.

For greater context, there's rydra_wong's Great Cultural Appropriation Debate of Doom 2009 tag ( Read more... )

The People of Color SF Carnival 2 is up.

Can anyone who has a permanent or paid InsaneJournal account make a feed for the People of Color blog? The address is:

http://ofcolour.blogspot.com/

The place to add a feed is here.

fandom_and_race is an IJ comm for:

"This place exists for ( Read more... )

Doing this meme is a lot of fun, although I'm not sure how easy it would be to guess the fandoms. There are fandoms that are pre-lj, or that I don't think I talked about much.

( 10 fandoms in a mix of media, weighted a little to more recent things, and stuff that I thought would be the most amusing to write about. )

coffeeandink posted on Why FanFic Writers Are Upset About Plagiarism, which is a nice summary of the Cassandra Claire plagiarism debacle in Harry Potter fandom.

shadowkat67 gave a clear, understandable summary on intellectual property law as applied to fandom in the comments, and followed up by expanding on the subject in a post: Intellectual Property Law and the Fan-A ( Read more... )

1. There's a Multifandom DVD Commentary Challenge, wherein you do a commentary on a fic that no one else has chosen. Also, you've got to get the author's permission, although some fans have given their consent ( Read more... )

Could I be more inconsistent? In my last post, I said that I had lost interest in HP fandom, and that I was just about to leave. So what do I do? In a meta rant I'm writing, I ended up using examples from HP, since it's still the fandom layout I'm most familiar with, and it's the most easily recognizable. Let's hear it for mass recognition of a ( Read more... )

My life has gotten more difficult, so I haven't been keeping up with my f-list very well. I had to skip 250, and I still haven't read everything. I've also been meaning to trim my f-list; there are people who haven't updated in a while and for all I know have abandoned their lj's, and I've been meaning to do it after the HP friending fest. So if I' ( Read more... )

If you're from mctabby's HP fandom Friending Frenzy III, then welcome! I've added more people to my f-list than I have in a while. This is the first time I've participated in a friending frenzy, so here's my take on it ( Read more... )