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March 10th, 2009
03:17 pm
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sasha_feather: [Fanfic & Slash] - Identity, Safety, and Meta - But I’m asking partly out of curiosity and mostly on the behalf of others-- how do you protect your real-life identity? If you do indeed worry about protecting it? What steps do you take? -
- wistfuljane: Do you even care about us? - know, as a consumer of Popular media and Science Fiction/Fantasy, I’ve been feeling miserable these past several months. Here, let’s me count the ways that I, as a Person of Color, have been made to feel invisible: -
- gerriwritinglog: Racism, RaceFail ‘09, and the Meme People imprint on what they know as they grow up. They can work to change that imprint, or to alter it. But growing up white in the U.S. isn’t an automatic ticket to being racist.
What sets me off every time is the pity whine "You don’t know what it’s like to grow up (insert ethnicity here). You’re white, so you don’t understand my paiiiinnnnnnnn!" Yeah, whatever.
- audrawilliams: Ottawa to spend $134.7M on web-friendly programming - In an effort to encourage the development of Canadian programming that’s more accessible to the iPod generation, the federal government is doing away with the controversial Canadian Television Fund. -
- chomiji: Taking Time for RaceFail09 - I thought we were fandom. I thought we understood what it was like to have others single us out for humiliation because we were different. I thought we were supposed to be forward-thinking and hang together, drawn by our common interests. And I was naive, because we’re not. In fact, there seem to be those who would say I’m naive to think that there’s even a "we" involved at all. -
- forthwritten: psychogeographies - It’s not that I feel uncomfortable as such, but it does remind me that the SFF community welcomes a certain kind of diversity; it embraces alternative lifestyles, it’s a haven for the geeky types and outsiders. However, it’s white boy/white person alt culture. -
- miriam_heddy: Linking to Listen: Some thoughts on listening while white - If you are not commenting and not linking because you have decided that "Shut up and listen" is the thing to do, but you are still posting about pretty boys or lolcats or the weather or the kidlets or the skirt you bought or the annoying thing your boss did today or your car trouble, you are being a passive audience. -
- azurelunatic: Things that you are not entitled to on the internet: - On the internet, it is possible to not share certain basic stuff about yourself that is unavoidably shared when you meet someone face to face. Humans are used to using these things to cement a relationship, to build a model of the other person in one’s head, to fill in the missing pieces, to relate to where the other party is coming from. It is untrue that no one on the internet cares about these things. Many people share these things. It is true that one can misrepresent these things. However, these things are not necessary to know, and you are not entitled to know them. -
- ann_leckie: untitled - If you are speaking or acting in a racist manner, the purity of your intentions is meaningless. -
- stoneself: why "color blind" is still racist - race exists. race is an arbitrary social construct, but it exists. it has real measurable effects. -
- jimhines: Somewhere in here is a valuable conversation... - And as far as I can tell, the only people saying "White authors aren’t allowed to write about non-white characters" are the white authors. And most of the time, "not allowed" seems to mean "people might say mean things". -
- cimness: miriam heddy stoneself on silence and listening - An institution, such as racism, is always the status quo; the point of "silence equals consent" to my mind is simply that, to remind us that the status quo is the default, and that trying to change an institution is a big undertaking, and that problematising the institution is an important step that requires many voices. -
- kita0610: Silence is loud and mysterious - If you have been following the RaceFail, but haven’t said anything, for whatever reason? // A post that simply says "I am not okay with this" can speak volumes. -
- sheafrotherdon: Give me a break / Happy / Action - [John Scalzi got involved in RaceFail09] - or at least was dragged kicking and screaming into the fray. -
- bottle_of_shine: Oh, John Scalzi, no. - Surprise, surprise, I mostly see it used in ways like in the post linked above, where hundreds of female and POC voices are writing and talking and saying smart and touching things that white men like Scalzi can easily write off by calling it a “discussion”, as if it isn’t, as if there is nothing of value taking place, because it is livejournal and that automatically strips it of any worth or value. -
- coffeeandink: The People Whites Don’t See: An Open Letter to Kathryn Cramer - This elephant, Kathryn, is a metaphorical construct made out of real people. You are looking right at these real people. They are right here. They are in this virtual room. They are speaking. They are reading books, and writing them, and writing about them. Why don’t you see them? -
- forthwritten: on pseudonymity - Comments along the lines of “only cowards use pseudonyms” and “if you have something worth saying, you can attach your real name to it” and “pseudonyms are only used for trolling and flaming” are making me see red. Because, quite honestly, you don’t know why I use a pseudonym. -
- wistfuljane: Toxicity - This is the least constructive thing on the topic of RaceFail ‘091 and it has everything to do about personal feeling of helplessness and rage, but you are not helping the discussion and instead is being toxic to the discussion if // you begin your post/comment/whatever with I haven’t been following/stopped reading about RaceFail ‘09 because I think both sides have been acting on bad faith/are at fault/behaving badly/need to chill out/need to move on/have irritated me past caring or various permutations of. -
- tablesaw: O HAI RACEFAILZ: Notes on Reading an Internet Conflict - RaceFail is a decentralized internet conflict, and thinking about it in terms of sides, timelines, or threads are all (sometimes necessary) simplifications. What it is is a hypertext, wherein everything refers to something or multiple things, sometimes directly and sometimes indirectly. -
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