August 22nd, 2009

12:46 am

kass: Vividcon 2009 Con Report! - Short version: Vividcon 2009 was fantastic. -
(tags: vidding cons)

kass: Vividcon 2009 Con Report! - Short version: Vividcon 2009 was fantastic. -
(tags: vidding cons)

esorlehcar: laurashapiro has an interesting post on - A friend recently commented that she sometimes misses the days when fandom seemed like this shiny, egalitarian place where issues surrounding race (and gender, to a lesser extent) just didn't exist and she didn't realize it was an illusion courtesy of her own privilege, and it struck me how telling a comment that was: For a whole lot of people, the anger that their fandoms are being "polluted" or "ruined" by this kind of discussion stems from a deep-seated conviction that these problems didn't exist in fandom before some troublemakers started talking about them, -
(tags: race fandom privilege)

esorlehcar: laurashapiro has an interesting post on - A friend recently commented that she sometimes misses the days when fandom seemed like this shiny, egalitarian place where issues surrounding race (and gender, to a lesser extent) just didn't exist and she didn't realize it was an illusion courtesy of her own privilege, and it struck me how telling a comment that was: For a whole lot of people, the anger that their fandoms are being "polluted" or "ruined" by this kind of discussion stems from a deep-seated conviction that these problems didn't exist in fandom before some troublemakers started talking about them, -
(tags: race fandom privilege)