I knew the Jack/Irina fic I'd read this afternoon was really way too shippy for my tastes, but still, it had been a few eps in my viewing since Irina had really done much (my interest in an Irina-less Alias? ALMOST ZERO), so my perspective was skewed, and I was kind of forgiving of the whole "love conquers all" thread that runs rather too strongly ( Read more... )

I was having a conversation the other day that touched on the recent race imbroglio and generated from my interlocutor the response, which I suspect is not at all unique to her, of [paraphrasing] "I have only a general sense of what's going on, and there seems like there's so much to read I don't know where to begin ( Read more... )

After all the *stabbityrage* of late, some smiling 'round these parts is called for, yes? Yes.

So let's talk about the show that I'm really digging in every possible way. ( TSCC 2.17: Ourselves Alone )

Whether or not you've been following the race and cultural appropriation imbroglio of Epic Fail (catalogued at rydra_wong, if you're unfamiliar with what's been going on), please go read this post by ciderpress. And if you're white, please just keep your mouth shut and really listen.

Fandom is talking about race and privilege again, and there are some excellent and thought-provoking discussions that rydra_wong rounds up for us here and here. I'm not going to engage with those specific discussions, which have to do largely with cultural appropriation and white people writing character of color, but the discussions have reminded me of ( Read more... )

Via Slate, an excellent article about the rhetorical legacy of George Wallace in contemporary American politics, in light of Congressman John Lewis's recent remarks about the McCain/Palin campaign and McCain's subsequent reaction to those remarks. Absent any obvious color semaphores, can rhetoric be racial? Or is the old Wallace code now so ( Read more... )

Dear Hillary Clinton,

You have just ensured that any vote I might ever be inclined to give you will be EXTREMELY grudging.

No more love at all,
Me

(And just so we're all on the same page, this is what she's calling hate speech. All to deflect attention from her own lie. She wasn't going to be my first choice candidate, but I had been happy ( Read more... )

Over the weekend and today, The Globe and Mail (Canada's major national newspaper) had a series of articles related to race and racism. And it seems that it's all the same old story, only perhaps politer than in the US.

Background: Race issues operate rather differently in Canada than in the States in some ways. In Canada, multiculturalism is the ( Read more... )

Once again via debunkingwhite, This is the fuller context of Rev. Wright's now infamous "God Damn America" remarks. Y'all, I'm a little physically ill about how this man's comments have been taken so entirely out of context with the agenda of turning him into the Angry Black Man that white people like to hate and fear. If you watch (or have already watched) any ( Read more... )

First and foremost, happiest of birthdays, abyssinia4077!!!!!! I hope your day is grand!

And abyssinia4077 is so cool that she writes her own birthday fic!!! Lots of SG-1 snippets, mostly gen and all wonderful!!!

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Changing fandoms, it seems there is an interesting Adama and Roslin deleted scene from "Eye of Jupiter". I think I still prefer gabolange's version of this scene, ( Read more... )