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March 4th, 2009
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ciderpress: You mean those giant brains are making everyone on Earth stupid? - Then they will disappear us completely by telling us we are not in the conversation at all, really. They repeat the meme that we are a figment of someone's imagination, we don't exist in this space at all, we have not talked, the words we wrote are meaningless and nothing, we are a sockpuppet army, a part of a vendetta that white people are carrying against other white people. -
- spiralsheep: In which Kathryn Cramer should be shunned for our own safety and the sake of our communities - It is my intention to shun Kathryn Cramer and W!ll Sh£tt£rly, not as a punishment but because they deliberately choose to threaten and damage real human beings (in this case for merely speaking out against racism) and I do NOT want to be anywhere near them or to be responsible for anyone else being placed anywhere near them. -
- icecreamempress: Pride and Privilege - So, yeah, I want supermarkets to make shelves everybody can reach, even though I never have trouble in that regard thanks to my tall genes and luck with health. And I want to live in a society where privilege--race, class, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, ability, national origin, religion, language, you name it--doesn't put any of the shelves automatically out of reach for someone who didn't happen to draw a socially-defined "winning ticket" in the lottery of life. -
- tielan: dipping a toe in the water: safe spaces - If online fandom is white people's safe space, where they can be as "post-racial" as they like (eg. "we have a black president! That means that there is no longer racism!" "I don't write about non-whites as real people in my fanfic, but that's because there aren't any important non-whites to write about in canon!" "I'm not racist, but I don't think that coloured people should get to say when they're being discriminated against!") then where is the safe space for people of colour? -
- imaginarycircus: I'm pasty as fuck - If you are a white person and you simply shrug and say not my problem? In my opinion you are a huge part of the problem. I'm part of the problem too. This symptom--the fantasy/SF racewank? Is not the actual problem. Racism isn't going to blow over or become a catch phrase we all laugh at and think is old meme. -
- splash_the_cat: It's not me, it really is you. - In the end, all of this has done one simple thing - returned the conversation (once again) to the control and focus of the interests of white SFF fandom, and away from the issues of race and representation in the genre. So yeah, y'all, you're right. It is all about you. But not in a way that makes you look like anything other than bullies and charlatans. Enjoy that. -
- moondancerdrake: Some folks just love wallowing in the mud of privilege - Now I understand this is something most white males will have trouble grasping (and it appears some white females as well) , but there's some scary fuckers out there in cyberland. They hide behind their antinomy for the sole purpose of making themselves feel more powerful and making other folks miserable. This post is not about them. This post is about the people they victimize. -
- maerhys: Beyond Me To We: On Usernames, Legal Names & The Internet - For all of the legitimate reasons listed in the last six weeks of this debacle as to why an individual would choose to keep their legal identity close during online activities, it's important to note that it's not always a choice based on the rewards and consequences conferred upon the individual but a choice made to protect our familial and communal identities from further exploitation. -
- azurelunatic: So, that thing where userpics are showing up replaced! - When you have a weird icon show up all of a sudden replacing one of your own, take heart. You haven't been hacked, and you're not actually hallucinating. -
- eruthros: On safe spaces - a safe space is a space in which everyone feels comfortable; a space in which we get to stop fucking teaching if we don't want to teach anymore. And sometimes, that means well-intentioned people aren't invited. Sometimes, some of my best friends aren't invited. -
- hija_paloma: Things I hate about having a new fandom - I am sick and tired, SO SICK AND TIRED I CANNOT TELL YOU, of having to sit through the "omg I wrote RPS I'm so naughty tee hee RPS doesn't deserve to have a title, this is my secret shame, oh god I didn't write this, someone else wrote this, I was drunk, no beta because it's just RPS, blah blah BLAH." -
- withdiamonds: I hope your apple pie was freakin' worth it - I just don't get the insistence here that being pseudonymous is the same as being anonymous, and that hiding behind a "false name" as the obviously unbalanced main culprits here insist on calling lj names, means you're not a real person, or not to be trusted.//Oh, I understand that this allows them to discredit both the honesty and the numbers of people who disagree with them. I mean, if you don't use your real name in your lj, you're either a sockpuppet or a liar, so your opinion means nothing and can be invalidated with impunity. -
- livrelibre: Failboat! The Cruise Ship of the Damned Sails On - It doesn't mean that I take anything I say as livrelibre less seriously or as a license to ignore any home training I ever had. In fact, that pseudonymity allows me more freedom and, in some ways, greater responsibility to tell my truth. And it allows me to choose who I share that with. No one gets to name me or control my expression of self, esp. when you're just going to try and invalidate who I am and what I say. -
- abydosangel: Of Masks & Hoods - People have the notion that because PoC don't wear the pain and frustration of these kinds of imbroglios in plain view, that we are "okay" at the end of them. Nothing could be further than the truth. Speaking only for myself, I have made the decision that my pain is not for public consumption and certainly not by those who use the tactics of the Hood Wearing Old Guard of Racists with a new, user-friendly version of the same old tricks. -
- browngirl: This? Is Not Right. - Most importantly: people of color are in SF&F fandom, as readers, writers, illustrators, editors, and fans. These, or any, intimidation tactics will not work. We are not going to go away, we are not going to be argued into denying our experiences, and we are not going to shut up. -
- darkrosetiger: "I am she as she is me... - I've done scenes, written porn, gamed and had dinner with people whose given names I didn't learn until later, and that was fine, because the implied social contract for my segment of online fandom is that if you comment under a nickname, you take responsibility for what you post under that nickname. -
- gnomicutterance: artists and art: I need better walls - It's this thinning of walls, this Internet-created feeling of fellowship which allows us to engage with each other in the same spaces. When Card is an ass, he's an ass in newspaper columns. When authors engage with their critics (not even critics of their books, but critics of their extratextual words) in the spaces populated by fandom prowriting)
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- veejane: I think about the shitstorm already occu - I think about the shitstorm already occurring thanks to the outing of coffeeandink, and I think about SF culture and how it has struggled to change, and I think: this is the old-guard power-structure reasserting its control. You see it in the parental disciplinary language, the condescenscion, the assumption that "we" -- those who object to racism-avoidance -- are all east-coast college students (as opposed to, say, east-coast college professors, or east-coast college janitors). -