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More diverse YA
- Oyate needs our help. What is Oyate?
Oyate is a Native organization working to see that our lives and histories are portrayed honestly, and so that all people will know our stories belong to us. For Indian children, it is as important as it has ever been for them to know who they are and what they come from. For all children, it is time to know and ( Read more... )
- Oyate needs our help. What is Oyate?
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[IBARW] Hellsing: Pretty Comes in Shades Other Than Pale
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... ) -
Not More Imaginary Than Unicorns
- racebending has an Avatar's Quick Reference Archive for a handy reference on what's wrong with the AtLA movie's casting. It's got stuff on the Asian cultures and Inuit culture influence on the worldbuilding, the history of yellowface and Hollywood racism, and key quotes from AtLA's production staff.
- Seeking Avalon makes interesting points in her post, White ( Read more... )
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To sell your love for peace
Three things on romance, because three is enough to put random topics in one post.
- thelittlebang, a challenge comm for femslash fanfic with complementary art and vids, now has submissions rolling in. Check the fanworks masterlist on the profile page for things you might be interested in. There's fic for things you only need a general familiarity with like ( Read more... )
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Yuri Anime/Manga: Aoi Hana (Sweet Blue Flowers)
AfterEllen, a website geared towards lesbian/bi content in Western (primarily United Statesian) media, is streaming Aoi Hana, a yuri anime. I never thought I'd see streaming anime be offered to a non-anime audience, let alone have niche yuri anime make the crossover ( Read more... ) -
Blog Topic Mash Up
Sometimes it's easier to talk about things that you don't have much to say. I can talk about my opinion about Merlin, but I have a hard time blogging about Avatar: the Last Airbender because it ate my brain ( Read more... ) -
The tl;dr comment on BtVS vs. Twilight, and how creepy vampire boyfriends are still creepy.
I haven't posted for a while, haven't looked at my f-list in a while. But while I was playing catch up, I came across redbrickrose's link to Buffy vs. Edward (Twilight Remixed), read her comments section, and wrote a reply that became a tl;dr about teenage girls and creepy vampire boyfriends, and meta I keep coming across that's started to bother me. And it's ( Read more... ) -
On this edition of RaceFail 2009
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... ) -
RaceFail 2009 is making a come back.
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... )
