De-lurking to say ...

[sigelphoenix]

People of color/non-white fans of sci-fi/fantasy/speculative fiction, please stand up!

This roll call, from deadbrowalking, 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.

This wasn't how I intended my first post on Dreamwidth to go. Ah well.

Comments

[starbird]

OTL

orz orz orz

HI WELCOME TO DREAMWIDTH

Also, orz.

[sigelphoenix]

Yes, lots and lots of orz.

(Thank you for the welcome.)

[starbird]

For the most part (up till this mess) Bujold seems like a thoughtful, intelligent person. I really hope she learns from this (it sounds like she wants to, at least; not that that excuses her ignorance, but I feel like the only thing worse than ignorance is willful ignorance).

orz

SO HOW ARE YOU?

[sigelphoenix]

Yeah, I hope her intention will translate into learning. It sure would be nice to have another big name SFF author get clueful (and, of course, good in the way that any human being understanding more about the oppressions of other human beings is good).

I was thinking more about what I wrote to cypher below, about not particularly caring about Bujold's potential response/epiphany/apology - by which I mean, I'm not following comments with baited breath to see her, "Oh, I get it now!" Besides what I said about the risks of focusing so much attention on her, I think it's also because I feel any response/epiphany/apology will be necessarily incomplete. yeloson has a great post explaining this idea. So I guess what I hope to see as "proof" of Bujold getting a clue is not a statement, but for her to walk away and think and start working against racism (and not just by throwing money at it /snide) and hopefully change things through her writing, her interactions with fellow authors, her interactions with fans. (Which, of course, means that there won't be an endpoint to the process.)

... So apparently I wanted to write more about RaceFail v2.0 than I did in my post, so I've been using comments for it. ;;;;;

Anyway! I am, er, okay despite stupidity abounding. I think, if there will be another Dancing With the Stars viewing tomorrow, I would really like to join and see fun-stupidity abounding!