Four years ago I made all the posts on this journal private. I had, however, intended these particular posts to be transferred to Dreamwidth, comments and all. But that never worked out. And now I feel like I've not only erased a piece of the history of online conversations about race and speculative fiction and fandom; I feel as if I ( Read more... )

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For people who think that the HP / Word Use Discussion (I refuse to call it a wank) is minor and people should be discussing real racism, I'd like to point your attention to the Jena 6.

There were nooses on a tree in a schoolyard. Nooses. A black kid sat down under the tree at lunchtime, a place where white students usually sat and the next day ( Read more... )

Holy Copper Pedal FUCK daily_deviant

This response???? If your community members don't know about the word in a racist context you're not going to tell them? There is no racism in Harry Potterverse against Black people, thus making use of the word ok ( Read more... )

The Daily Deviant

This post is going to be about a Harry Potter community here on livejournal. There will be no spoilers for Book 7, but I will be using analogies from the book's universe. Please use your own discretion.

This post will be about racism.

( Racist Behavior - Not Just House Elves )

I should be sleeping, or making breakfast but - sometime on Thursday someone dragged an old rp character (female!Logan) out of my head for random chat meta. And the concept grew and grew and now I'm finding myself over at GJ trying to remember how to set up a game and doing a lot of head scratching.

But that's not the point of this post. Remember ( Read more... )

Before you click past the cut-tag, I'm putting these up in the easiest way for me. Tables make my brain explode and if I wait for pictures I may never get it up. And the whole point of it was for it to be a fun little project, not to feel like something I have to get presented just perfectly or never put up. I may repost to update it, or prettify ( Read more... )

Note: I'm not going to talk too historically here, because the best person to do so would be someone who's had dreads for going on twenty or twenty five years and who was part of the community in the Caribbean.

( Half Personal, Half Ranty )

pandorasblog Responded to me here about my new icon in a GIP post. But my comment was too long and I don't want to break it up into two or more parts.

Her:I just finished Octavia Butler's "Kindred" last night, oddly enough. Enjoyed it a lot, and also the biographical info my edition of the book had was interesting ( Read more... )

When I am clueless, I am really clueless. It was pointed out to me last night, and I've since seen some comments/posts today that Ronon and Try are EXOTIC ALIEN OTHER; most likely due to the dreads ( Read more... )