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.

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[starbird]

OTL

orz orz orz

HI WELCOME TO DREAMWIDTH

Also, orz.

[cypher]

wow, that. augh. I read through some of the comments on the tor post on the day it blew up, but apparently bujold kept on getting worse after that. how are people still this stupid about these issues? :/

[augustphoenix]

I'm back on page 6. :)