fen of color check-in
May. 12th, 2009 01:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rmAre you a non-white/PoC reader/viewer of SF/F?
There's this amazing thread over here asking people to check in, thanks to the latest iteration of this wacked out belief that there are no PoC invested in the genre.
Despite having a really mixed background that involves non-white ancestry on both sides of my family, I've lived my whole life with white privilege, so I haven't checked in, as I think it's both presumptuous and a bit counter to the purpose of the thread, but as someone who tries to be a good ally, I think this is a marvelous thread, and I encourage anyone to check it out.
Also? Me and my writing partner. Yes, PoC fans exist. And that this has to keep being explained to people is some seriously annoying shit.
There's this amazing thread over here asking people to check in, thanks to the latest iteration of this wacked out belief that there are no PoC invested in the genre.
Despite having a really mixed background that involves non-white ancestry on both sides of my family, I've lived my whole life with white privilege, so I haven't checked in, as I think it's both presumptuous and a bit counter to the purpose of the thread, but as someone who tries to be a good ally, I think this is a marvelous thread, and I encourage anyone to check it out.
Also? Me and my writing partner. Yes, PoC fans exist. And that this has to keep being explained to people is some seriously annoying shit.
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Date: 2009-05-12 07:20 pm (UTC)Meanwhile, in the uncool Mundanian world, Whoopi Goldberg on The View was giving away copies of an anthology of the original Trek, because it is that important to her.
Totally get the white privilege thing. The family I emotionally self identify with is non-white, and I wouldn't be either, if my grandfather were not an Australian of Irish and English descent, and my father a white Southerner.
But a white guy looks back in the mirror,there you go.