Someone at femmeconne asked me for some examples of times I'd screwed up talking about race on the internet, which I decided was justification for this tl;dr screed (which I've been working on for ages) I've done "not X" for pretty much every "Do X" listed here, this is basically everything I wish someone had told me a few years ago ( Read more... )

(A follow on from Speaking about bad ideas...atheism and race! since a lot of the same arguments came up in the comments)

Why I see cultural intolerance as racist: VERY few people in polite modern western society are explicitly racist in the "I hate everyone with dark skin" way. I tend to use "racist" to mean any tendency in society which ( Read more... )

I have finally given up on "Talkin' up to the white woman: Indigenous women and feminism" by Aileen Moreton-Robinson (as recced to me by fire_fly before my panel. She did say I might find Sister Girl an easier read!). It's not that it was bad, it's just that I am pretty much incapable of reading more than about 10 pages of academic humanities theory ( Read more... )

( Preamble )

This is an intermittently edited collection of ideas for a panel on "Feminism and Race" I ran at femmeconne. As such it's aimed at feminists/women, though anyone else is welcome to read it. I put all the links I found (and there's some really good stuff) in a separate post, since it's important that my argument can stand on its own (I can't give people links ( Read more... )

This is a somewhat vague ramble through various "basic" ideas which underlie my attitudes to feminism and anti-racism etc. It started as a reply to this comment and then grew out of my control :D
( I hate injustice, not the unjust )

In any place on the internet where multiple people get together to talk (forums, communities, or even the comments to a blog post) there are going to be rules of communication. As I discussed in my Freedom of speech doesn't mean what you think it does post, the owners and maintainers of these spaces have a right to expect you to follow those rules ( Read more... )

My overall reaction to "Turn Left" is OMGWANTNEXTEPISODE. Also I guess it answers the "where are all the asians?" question: On planet Asia! Being really asian! (I'm sure Serenity would have made a pit stop there too eventually)
( Spoilers ish up to Turn Left )

Via ithiliana: an academic who runs a blog discussing ways to combat biased thinking argues that women don't seem to like this blog, clearly it must be because they're inherently wired not to understand/be interested in the topic, with the conversation quickly shifting to the way women are biologically predisposed to being less intelligent and ( Read more... )

I've been trying to articulate a particular trope I absolutely can't stand for a while, and talking with Cam about the demons in Supernatural(*) crystalized it: when something horrible and unfair happens to someone, and as a result they "lose their humanity" and become a Bad Guy. The main context I'm thinking of is when your main characters' job is ( Read more... )