Posted in Uncategorized, tagged comics, media friday, movies, television, youtube on July 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Thank Jebus it’s Friday y’all, ’cause this week has been the longest ever. It felt like a month. I suspect some sort of warp in the fabric of space-time. So I’m thinking of making my Friday posts all about the media where I post videos or pictures or whatever.
Now many here may not now it but [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 20, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ve been busy with was an interview with the wonderful, funny, talented, award-winning Nancy Kress which is now up at Feminist SF - The Blog! Check it out!
Posted in GLBT, People of Color, Queer, books, gender, links, politics, privilege, publishing, queerism, sexism, sf/f, transphobia, tagged gender, politics, links, sf/f, books, sexism, People of Color, privilege, Queer, GLBT, queerism, publishing, transphobia, publi on June 19, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I still have a lot of balls in the air so I have links for you guys today!
First the story of a mother who found herself the subject of a Child Services investigation because there had been an accusation that her autistic daughter was being sexually abused by a man. The evidence for this accusation? [...]
Posted in Africa, aversive racism, colonialism, early draft, justice for some, media representation, oppression, race, racism, terminology, tagged Africa, aversive racism, colonialism, early draft, justice for some, media representation, oppression, race, racism, terminology on June 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
In my post last week about representation of Africa in the media I talked about the savagification that bleeds through in these articles. If you haven’t heard of “savagification” used in this way let me explain:
Savagification is the way in which countries/continents, not in the affluent West (This does of course have exceptions. It also happens in articles about [...]
Posted in artwork, feministsf, links, sf/f, tagged artwork, feministsf, links, sf/f on June 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
- I’ve been trying to keep you guys up with vito_excalibur’s wonderful art alters where she plays with the gender of such classic characters as Power Girl & ‘Beauty & The Beast’ and with the nationality/racial representation of Wonder Woman. Well Alters #4 is up and this time it’s her take on The Joker & Dr. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
That post that went up today? Yeah was not supposed to go up, was not completed or edited. Sorry ’bout that I’m massively sleepy and must have hit publish instead of save by accident. So it’s been disappeared and will be coming back whole and fabulous in couple days. Whoopsie!
Think of it as a sneak [...]
Posted in People of Color, fantasy/sci-fi, justice for some, links, movies, oppression, race, racism, tagged fantasy/sci-fi, justice for some, links, movies, oppression, People of Color, race, racism on May 9, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I’m going to designate today an actual writing day so just some quick links and I’m gone.
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WOC PhD deconstructs the Iron Man film in The Summer of Men (Some Spoilers)
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I’m not asking for a completely sympathetic image of Arabs that glosses over the real role of warlords in prolonging and exploiting the conflict; saying any [...]
Posted in GLBT, Queer, identity politics, justice for some, queerism, race, racism, tagged GLBT, identity politics, justice for some, Queer, queerism, race, racism on May 8, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Most of you have probably heard of the Lawrence King shooting. If you haven’t the rundown is that Lawrence King is a 15-year-old POC child that was shot twice in the head by one of his bullies McInerney after turning the tables on him. McInerney’s defense seems to be that old “gay panic” classic, you [...]
Posted in Feminism, People of Color, fantasy/sci-fi, links, privilege, race, sf/f, tagged fantasy/sci-fi, Feminism, links, People of Color, privilege, race, sf/f on May 6, 2008 | 9 Comments »
The mental fog has lifted at least enough so that I can give you a couple of links.
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First of all I don’t know how many of you guys remember my mentioning the anthology Interfictionsin my recap of WisCon last year. It was the reading early in the morning that I dragged my hungover ass to [...]
Posted in GLBT, privilege, race, wiscon32, tagged GLBT, privilege, race, wiscon32 on May 5, 2008 | 12 Comments »
So I just got the email that lists the panels I’m on for WisCon 32! Now the original email only had three panels but this final one added one more. When I saw the panel that was added I couldn’t supress a bark of laughter.
Here are the panels:
Title: Captain Jack’s Big Gay Torchwood
“The 21st century [...]
