K. Tempest Bradford

Did Paul Di Filippo just compare women and minorities to vegetables? I think he just did. (You’ll have to scroll.)

August 4th, 2009 | Tags: flames on the side of my face, Gender Imbalance In Publishing, Race Imbalance in Publishing, stupid people saying stupid things | Category: Blog Against Racism | Comments (16)

I thought about writing a long, thoughtful post about this recent flare-up of stupidity on the internet. Something a little more coherent than my last one. But, honestly, it isn’t going to make much of a difference. Will Shetterly never listens to anyone, he just rants, whines, cries, and then complains about [...]

March 3rd, 2009 | Tags: flames on the side of my face, someone is going to get my boot up their ass | Category: Rants | Comments (22)

Despite the fact that everyone seems to be talking about how you’re evil and you don’t support your products properly and other stuff, you and I have generally been cool.  But I have to say that we are going to have a slapfight in a minute if you do not fix the ongoing problem with [...]

February 4th, 2009 | Tags: flames on the side of my face, Google | Category: Rants | Comments (2)

Hey guys, remember Luke Jackson?  The guy who started the whole Helix thing on accident and recently has been running around these here Internets being super offensive just to gain kudos (and perhaps sweet lovin’) from William Sanders and the people who hang out on his message board.  Well, he’s just taken his crazy act [...]

January 30th, 2009 | Tags: authors behaving badly, flames on the side of my face, internet trolls, racism | Category: Elsewhere on the Internets | Comments (53)

I’ve been trying all weekend to write a post that will express several emotions and truths about this latest explosion of debate, discussion, and fail around cultural appropriation and other related issues. You’re all sick of hearing about it, yadda, yadda. I never could write that post. Because it would be pointless. [...]

January 26th, 2009 | Tags: cultural appropriation, flames on the side of my face, i hate you all | Category: Blog Against Racism | Comments (53)

A truth that I’ve come across many times over the years and passed on to me by writers much more experienced and intelligent than I and that I feel is apropos in these times:
Just because you wrote a piece of fiction doesn’t mean you own the only true way of reading/interpreting/understanding that piece of fiction.  [...]

January 22nd, 2009 | Tags: flames on the side of my face, open letters | Category: Writing, Writing Life | Comments (16)

I hate every last one of you muthertruckers right now. Seriously, if I knew where you lived, I would put poo on your doorstep and set it on fire. Create something useful for once and quit churning out crap.
No love,
Me
P.S. This goes for all of you other plugin writers out there, too. [...]

January 7th, 2009 | Tags: flames on the side of my face | Category: Rants | Comments (3)

If a white person calls me a nigger, that’s pretty racist, right?  I mean, if someone is willing to use that particular word against me, that’s not a mistake, that’s not an oops, that’s not a slip of the tongue.  That’s a pretty clear cut situation.
Okay.  Now let’s say that “Bob” calls me a nigger [...]

June 19th, 2008 | Tags: flames on the side of my face, gender bias, Gender Imbalance In Publishing | Category: Rants | Comments (20)