sigelphoenix (![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} sigelphoenix) wrote,@ 2009-05-11 22:31:00 |
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De-lurking to say ...
People of color/non-white fans of sci-fi/fantasy/speculative fiction, please stand up!
This roll call, from the deadbrowalking community on LJ, is a response to yet another white SFF writer displaying ignorance of the long-standing presence of fans of color - not yet six months after RaceFail '09. You don't have to write anything lengthy or clever - this post is merely an attempt to get a (however incomplete) count of fans of color, after the nth time a white writer/reader said, "Wow, there's non-white people in SFF?"
And people wonder why we need to specify "'09" after "RaceFail" ... The ignorance is here, again, still.
People of color/non-white fans of sci-fi/fantasy/speculative fiction, please stand up!
This roll call, from the deadbrowalking community on LJ, is a response to yet another white SFF writer displaying ignorance of the long-standing presence of fans of color - not yet six months after RaceFail '09. You don't have to write anything lengthy or clever - this post is merely an attempt to get a (however incomplete) count of fans of color, after the nth time a white writer/reader said, "Wow, there's non-white people in SFF?"
And people wonder why we need to specify "'09" after "RaceFail" ... The ignorance is here, again, still.