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• oyceter: Racism on an international scale - I think people who say that racism in their country is nowhere near as important as another ism are perpetuating a false dichotomy. There is no hierarchy of oppression. -
  
  (tags: race fandom)


• shewhohashope: 'Blindness is not a moral positive. Blindness is an inability to perceive.' - 'I think of you as a white person!' is not the compliment people seem to think it is. Nor is it a profound anti-racist statement. -
  
  (tags: fandom race)


• beccaelizabeth: Reading double in a double standard world - Their point is: Being in love or lust,[...]does not make you weak, boring or one-dimensional.//And, okay, of itself it *should* not. But in practice, in stories, it frequently *does*.//And the characters it tends to happen to? Not so often the g -
  
  (tags: gender het fanfic)


• friendshipper: Writing meta: Writing OCs, part one - I write a lot of OCs in my fanfic, and I like reading well-written OCs, but there are an awful lot that aren't well-written. So, here is: Friendshipper's Guide to Writing Compelling Original Characters in Fanfic (part one) -
  
  (tags: fanfic writing)


• spiralsheep: In which our heroine explains to Doctor Who fans about "Mammy" in Britain - Why is it that some people are so proud of their race-related "colourblindness" when it's merely the inability to see people of colour and their history? -
  
  (tags: dw race)


• kutsuwamushi: THE TROLLS ARE AT THE GATE - fanficrants has already been hit by one troll--luckily, we put it on moderated membership so it never got past the queue. Here's a list of spoiler trolls that I know of: -
  
  (tags: hp fandom)


• femmequixotic: On spoilers and downloads and choices - Yeah, half of fandom is reading the PDF. I know some people who have and I know why they're reading it in advance. And I totally agree with their reasons. Because, dude. They're their reasons. [NO SPOILERS] -
  
  (tags: hp)


• divalucia: The Ugly Politics of Beauty - Dear SPN fangirls, //would you please stop pinning actresses against each other on the basis of their hair color?//Assuming brunettes are automatically smarter, tougher, and more worthy of a kick-ass role is hardly a feminist statement. -
  
  (tags: spn fandom gender)


• musesfool: i know it's everybody's sin - The thing with a title is it has to be eye-catching and evocative on its own - especially if it's almost all a reader is getting - and it also has to suit the story and make sense once the story is read - preferably resonating on two or three levels at on -
  
  (tags: fanfic)


• rydra_wong: IBARW: A meme-ish proposal - Just grab the Character of Color/Colour of your choice, and then pimp like whoa. Dedicate a post to telling everyone why this character is hot/cool/angstful/interesting/awesome and should be getting more fannish love. -
  
  (tags: race fandom)

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