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Urban Fantasy 101

What I aim for in this post series isn’t actually to name and shame authors for their reliance on tropes I find incredibly harmful (although I know it must look like that with how much I harp about Laurell K Hamilton’s stuff sometimes). My goal is to talk about how the fantasy of urban fantasy can remain inaccessible to many people – often people of color, queer people, and anyone that isn’t cis – and how that negatively impacts the reading experience.
I don’t want to rewrite the genre to my exacting specifications or police what authors write. I just want to make a space for conversations about problematic aspects of the genre, one where education and venting are the main focus.

Too White Bread for This Shit: Race and Racism in Laurell K Hamilton’s Urban Fantasy Series

Urban Fantasy 101: A Few of My Favorite Fang-Havers

Urban Fantasy 101: Vamping Out

Urban Fantasy 101: A Quick Guide to Shifter Romances

Urban Fantasy 101: Sexual Assault in the Genre – Part One

Urban Fantasy 101 – Weird Ass Werewolf Tropes

Urban Fantasy 101 – It’s A Heteronormative World Out There

Urban Fantasy 101 – Allegory Overuse (ft. Laurell K Hamilton’s Anita Blake series and JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series)

Urban Fantasy 101 – Werelions And Tigers And Bears! Oh My!

Urban Fantasy 101: Single White Vampire

Urban Fantasy 101 – Gentry-Fication

Urban Fantasy 101 – Issues of Immortal Morality

Urban Fantasy 101: Magical Negros In the Genre

Urban Fantasy 101: Cop Country

The Hollows Reread

Urban Fantasy 101: Bitchin’ Witches (And Wizards)

Urban Fantasy 101: A Fast Guide to the Freaking Fae Folk

Urban Fantasy 101: My Eight Favorite Urban Fantasy Reads of 2018

Urban Fantasy 101: Definitive-Ish

Urban Fantasy 101: Rec Yourself

Urban Fantasy 101: A Quick Guide to Dastardly Demons

The Great Big Anita Blake Reread

The Great Big Anita Blake Reread – Guilty Pleasures

The Great Big Anita Blake ReRead – The Laughing Corpse

The Great Big Anita Blake Reread – Circus of the Damned

The Great Big Anita Blake ReRead – The Lunatic Cafe

The Great Big Anita Blake Reread: Bloody Bones

The Great Big Anita Blake Reread: Sorting Out Shifters

The Great Big Anita Blake Reread: Narcissus in Chains (Anita Blake #10)

The Great Big Anita Blake Reread: Approaching the Ardeur (An Explainer)

The Great Anita Blake ReRead: Obsidian Butterfly

The Great Big Anita Blake ReRead: Blue Moon

The Great Big Anita Blake ReRead: Burnt Offerings

The Great Big Anita Blake Reread: The Killing Dance

Radioplay Day

Radioplay Day – Blue Beetle – Episode 1 “Drug Ring”

Radioplay Day: The Shadow – “The Creeper”

Radioplay Day: The Shadow – The Curse of the Cat

Letters to the Author

Letter to the Author – Matt Wallace

Letters to the Author – Afton Locke

Letters to the Author – JK Rowling

Problematic Fave

Problematic Fave – The Authority: Human On The Inside

The Sandman: My Ultimate Problematic Fave

Batman Thrillkiller

What Fandom Racism Looks Like

What Fandom Racism Looks Like: All The Pieces of Heroes of Color

What Fandom Racism Looks Like: The Smartest Girl in the World Has To Be A Mary Sue

What Fandom Racism Looks Like: (Not So) Sexy Slavefic

What Fandom Racism Looks Like: White Prioritization

What Fandom Racism Looks Like: Only 33 Words in a Trailer

What Fandom Racism Looks Like: #NotAll Fans

What Fandom Racism Looks Like: Beige Blank Slates

What Fandom Racism Looks Like: “You’re Silencing Meeeee (Feat. Determined Derailers)”

What Fandom Racism Looks Like: Phone A Friend of Color

What Fandom Racism Looks Like: Fandom Wank

What Fandom Racism Looks Like: The Cult(ure) of Nice

What Fandom Racism Looks Like: For Clout and Social Capital

What Fandom Racism Looks Like: Weaponized White Womanhood

What Fandom Racism Looks Like: Power & Privilege

What Fandom Racism Looks Like: The Star Wars Fandom (Part One, Probably)

What Fandom Racism Looks Like: PickMe POC

What Fandom Racism Looks Like: The (Un)Magic of Intent

What Fandom Racism Looks Like: James Olsen is Pete Ross 2.0

What Fandom Racism Looks Like: The Problem With Preferences

What Fandom Racism Looks Like: Keep Calm and Wait Your Turn

What Fandom Racism Looks Like: Silly Ship Wars

What Fandom Racism Looks Like: Woke Points For What?

Misogynoir Mini Series

Korean Pop & Hip Hop Industry and Fandom Masterpost

Star Wars Masterpost

Fandom Racism 101

Fandom Racism 101: Introduction

Fandom Racism 101: Clocking and Closing The Empathy Gap

Fandom Racism 101: Feeling Fragile

Fandom Racism 101: Don’t Feed The Trolls

Fandom Racism 101: Basic Body Politics

Dear Comic Fans [Currently On Hiatus]

Dear Comic Fans: We Get it. You’re racist and racebending scares you.

Dear Comic Fans: It’s been a year since my first post & y’all are still racist as heck when it comes to racebending

Dear Comic Fans, Guess What: You’re Still Not Handling Racebending and Diverse Casting Very Well!

Dear Comic Fans, It’s Been Four Years And Y’all Are Still So Darn Angry About Racebending

Fandom’s Race Problem [Permanently Scrapped]

Fandom. you’ve got a huge race problem — An Introduction Post

The Techniques of Erasure

Fandom’s Huge Race Problem Essay #2: Co-Opted Experiences and Identities in Fandom

“Must Reads”

WHEN CAN WE TALK ABOUT RACISM IN FANDOM?

Why Write About Fandom Racism At A Time Like This?

Black American Privilege: A Poem

Wonder Woman Earth One Is Far From Wondrous

Crimson Peak’s pretty but it sure doesn’t look diverse!

Slash Shipping, Pseudo-Progressivism, and Reinforcing Patriarchal Standards in Fandom

Fantastic Beasts & Invisible Diversity in the Harry Potter Series

On Grayson, fandom, problematic media, and the drive to “defend” popular male characters

Black Ladies Deserve Love Too: Lupita Nyong’o, Concern Trolling, and White Feminism

Stitch on Fansplaining’s Two-Part Episode About Race and Fandom!

Grayson #20 and WOC as the “Wrong Choice” Love Interests

The Reality of Bendis Writing Blackness

Fear of Fucking Up: Not Actually A Good Excuse For Erasing Characters of Color

Let’s Stop Giving The Killing Joke More Credit Than It Deserves

Nyota Uhura: One More Black Female Character Fandom Wants To Be Strong and Single Forever

Quit Trying To Make” Forced Diversity” Happen (It’s Not A Thing)

Valkyrie isn’t ‘Male-Coded’ And You’re Kinda Racist

“What if a white guy played Black Panther?”: The Fake Concern of Fake Geek Guys

What It’s Like Being Fandom Critical While Black

“Who’s Super Selfish Here?”: Oliver and Felicity, WestAllen Wedding Crashers

A Quick Quibble: Supposedly “Straightwashing” Okoye in Black Panther

In Fandom, All Villains Aren’t Treated Equally

When White Villains Get Woobiefied: Kylo Ren Is Just A Monster In A Mask

Queer Coded Villains Aren’t That Awesome’

Sacrifice, Heroics, and Dead Characters of Color

Intersectionality Fail: Star Wars The Last Jedi Without Men

Who the heck is Ben Solo?

Stitch Talks Toxic Fandom

Where Are Y’all Getting Your Characterization From? Finn Isn’t A Coward, Or Selfish, And He Doesn’t Need A Damn Redemption Arc.

[Image Post + Essay] On Performative Anti-Racism

Anti What, Exactly?

Queer Baiting, Coding, Reading, and Representation: A Pint-Sized Primer

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse and Miles Morales: Spider-Man: When Authenticity Matters

Stitch Elsewhere

Comic Reviews @ Word of The Nerd

“Bond Girl” @ The Mary Sue (Bond Girl page on my site)

@ ComicsAlliance

How It Feels To Be “Cute For A Black Girl”

Women Write About Comics

I Am Curious (Publishers): Lois Lane, Reprints, and Unintentional Ignorance

Strange Horizons

Anathema Magazine

Jessica Jones Doesn’t Care About Men of Colour

EFNIKS Magazine – Now ColorBloq

Fan Service

No, Megan Thee Stallion Isn’t a “Fake Anime Fan”

ATEEZ Apologizes for Hongjoong’s Cornrows

Netflix’s “Ginny & Georgia” Plays Oppression Olympics — But Nobody Wins

Meghan Markle’s Critics Are Using Internet Troll Tactics to Perpetuate Misogynoir

Polygon

How we got to ‘report accounts’ and the latest Taylor Swift controversy