Because of a discussion elsewhere (most directly, my thoughts on this come from qian, though of course it's part of an ongoing conversation & not original to either of us) I'm reconsidering how I think of cultural appropriation ( Read more... )

1)rose_lemberg ponders appropriation in the context of her own work, and welcomes discussion (to the extent that her spoons allow).  Not a 101 discussion; she's asking some of the really hard questions, IMO.

2) Via nisi_la - The Carl Brandon Society got a challenge grant up to $2000 from SF3! This means anything we donate this month or next will be doubled!

Nisi sez ( Read more... )

I'm coming out of my hole for a mo to say this:

You don't know shit about Kali. She is not in fact your bitch.

You prove your utter ignorance by claiming She holds maliceOf. All. Things ( Read more... )

This is cobbled together from IM conversation with tithenai and kirizal, and grounded in recent lj-discussions, me thinking about my own writing, and my brain being rearranged by one of my advisor's papers on viewpoint (she does this.) So it's sort of about Everything, as understood by Shweta.

ETA: If this sparks a response post of any sort, I do hope you'll ( Read more... )

hanks to sartorias for the heads-up --

So probably almost everyone knows this before me, but if anyone still doesn't, the Emmy-winning animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender came up during the RaceFail debates as an example of an actual multicultural world with multicultural cast. There's a movie being made.

How bad is the casting? Well! Visuals here.

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I tend to find that abstract notions don't line up easily with actual examples, for me.

So here's an actual example that makes me wonder.

(I *will* write the story, and decide whether it's appropriation after it's written. I have written about 400 words and bits of the rest. -- I'm not so much asking for reassurance (though it's nice and I ( Read more... )

A juggernaut, yeah, that's a great big machine
from Star Wars -- or maybe a truck
Avatars are who you are in a game
and karma, we all know, is luck.

Kali's a demon; Dan Simmons should know
He went to Calcutta one year
and Soma's a drug out of Huxley. It's so
very great how inventive they were!

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Sparked by some of the conversation on the What is ( Read more... )