I’ve been reading a lot of different things around the internet that have me thinking about white privilege. It occurs to me that I can use myself as an instructive example of how quiet and insidious white privilege can be. I had just loaded a bunch of new avatars from the 1800s for folks to […]
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One of the links that I posted as something to consider was A Mist of Vague Cliches by K. Tempest Bradford. Now, Tempest and I were in a writing group together and the generic European setting was one of her pet peeves. So, when I started work on this story “On the Edge of Dying”
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I’m going to start today by just linking to things I find helpful or thought-provoking. Excellent article on Describing Characters of Color by N. K. Jemison Open Letter to the SF community by the Carl Brandon Society Context by David Levine A Mist of Vague Cliches by K. Tempest Bradford
I was having a conversation with a fellow writer about Justine Larbalestier’s post, “Why my protagonists aren’t white” and the fellow said that he rarely describes his characters, unless it’s important, so that the reader is free to imagine them at will. I can understand this choice, because I’ve done it myself and for the
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I was talking with a friend about racism and he brought up a thing I’d never thought about, in terms of why people go all frothy when told that they’ve done something racist. For many people, especially those who grew up during segregation, being racist frequently was actively pursued and something that people were proud
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This week is International Blog Against Racism Week and I spent yesterday reading about racism, but not writing anything because I felt like I didn’t have anything to add to the conversation. After all, as a white person, race doesn’t affect me. Except that’s completely false. Race affects me every day. When I go to
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