Dear Sir,
Though you have taken time to give a poor explanation of why there are no women in your anthology, I have yet to see you give any explanation as to why there are no writers of color in it, either. If you could please kindly provide this answer, as many of us would like [...]
Or: why the Male Only Table of Contents issue is about both Gender and Race
So over on Marguerite’s blog editor Mike Ashley of the Mammoth Book of White Men Fail Mindbowing SF explains that the stories he was looking for, those that blew his mind with science, aren’t usually written by women, and therefore that’s [...]
Did Paul Di Filippo just compare women and minorities to vegetables? I think he just did. (You’ll have to scroll.)
Which I feel is particularly important given International Blog Against Racism Week (which inconveniently came on the heels of International Be Angry At Harlan Week). Anyway, post is here. I would particularly enjoy hearing from folks who’ve made intersectionality a ore part of their activism and how they accomplished that.
To make my life easier, I created a form that people can fill out to alert me of short fiction by people of color. That form will then feed into a merge thingy which is supposed to auto-generate lists for me. We’ll see.
And just so this post consists of more than one line, check out [...]
I need not add anything else:
…many of the things that make me angry are topics that have a direct bearing on my ability to have a successful writing career, it’s hard to tune it all out. This is my livelihood we’re talking about, after all. I need to know if I’m going to have to [...]
From the Carl Brandon Society Blog, in case you haven’t seen it:
Open Letter to the SF Community re: Ellison/Bradford Incident
To the Speculative Fiction Community:
We at the Carl Brandon Society are writing this open letter to our community regarding the recent incident involving Harlan Ellison and K. Tempest Bradford. Mr. Ellison, mistakenly believing that Ms. Bradford [...]
I feel like I must have mentioned this before, but looking back it seems maybe not. Anyway, this month I’ve been guest blogging at the Carl Brandon Society blog. I think this is going to become a regular thing as it seems like they’re very pleased with the lists of POC fiction I’ve been posting.
By [...]
So here’s my thing: RaceFail is… tiresome and anger-making and I’m just as much ready to be done with it as you are. Instead, let’s try for some RaceWin (yes, Sharyn, I’m looking at you). Today we’re going to celebrate the creative efforts of Fen of Color. Fen being the plural of fan (specifically fan [...]
Spreading the word about this, but apologies if you’ve seen it on your feedreader/f-list already. Repost as desired!
As RaceFail 09 continues, it has become clear that there are those who are hellbent on marginalizing and silencing people of color. In the past few months, minorities have been denigrated by bigoted authors and publishers who have [...]
A rare open post on DeadBro:
Let’s make it really clear, people. If you identify as a POC/nonwhite person and you read or watch scifi or fantasy, give yourself a name check in this thread. I am particularly wanting shoutouts from people who do not live in the US and who have still managed to read [...]
Remember a couple of weeks ago when there was a lot of discussion and debate about Bridget McKennitt’s list of authors, etc. that she was boycotting due to RaceFail? Yeah, I’m a little late in posting my response to it. The subject has been marinating for a while and I finally have some time to [...]
Maybe Amnesty isn’t even the right word, but I can’t think of anything better right at this moment.
The point of this post is: there have been a lot of people involved in RaceFail. A LOT. Some of them failed and failed hard, some of them wandered in cluelessly and then proceeded to fail, and some [...]
Allies like you we don’t need.
More proof that RaceFail is an ongoing occurance in everyday life. Or, at least, on the internet.
(It’s actually been a long time since I considered Peter an ally. After watching his liberal cred fly out of the window during a discussion about sexism a few years ago, I just count [...]
Liz Henry is awesome! I added some stuff. Other people add, too! (I’ll be back after this weekend to add my posts nd stuff, but I wanted to get it started.)
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I'm a writer, most often committing acts of Fantasy and Science Fiction, though I have been known to slip in and out of genres. I'm famous on the internet, an editor of some repute, and hopeless convention addict.
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