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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 – 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: Stitch Reads The Hollows – Dead Witch Walking Chapters 1-5
- Urban Fantasy 101: Stitch Reads The Hollows – Dead Witch Walking Chapters 6-10
- Urban Fantasy 101 Stitch Reads The Hollows – Dead Witch Walking Chapters 16-20
- [Urban Fantasy 101] Stitch Reads The Hollows – Dead Witch Walking Chapters 11-15
- Urban Fantasy 101: Stitch Reads The Hollows – Dead Witch Walking Chapters 21-25
- Urban Fantasy 101: Stitch Reads The Hollows – Dead Witch Walking Chapters 26-30
- [Urban Fantasy 101] Stitch Reads The Hollows – Dead Witch Walking Chapters 31-34
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
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
- What Fandom Racism Looks Like: Misogynoir – Introduction
- What Fandom Racism Looks Like: Misogynoir – Convenient Excuses
- What Fandom Racism Looks Like: Misogynoir – Black Women in the Way
- What Fandom Racism Looks Like: Misogynoir – Black Actresses Under Attack
- What Fandom Racism Looks Like – Misogynoir: Black Fans on the Defensive
Korean Pop & Hip Hop Industry and Fandom 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, 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
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
[Image Post + Essay] On Performative Anti-Racism
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)
- Survival, Slavery, and Suffering in the Graphic Novel of Octavia Butler’s ‘Kindred’
- “From Black Panther To Moon Girl: A Brief History Of Young Black Brilliance in Superhero Comics“
How It Feels To Be “Cute For A Black Girl”
Women Write About Comics
Anathema Magazine
EFNIKS Magazine – Now ColorBloq
- Academic Allies Treat My Queerness With Comfort, My Blackness With Hostility
- Validation in Fandom and Feelings of Pride Through Online Communities
Fan Service
- Who Actually Gets to “Escape” Into Fandom?
- On Fanfiction, Fandom, and Why Criticism Is Healthy
- On Racebending and Seeing Yourself in Fandom
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
Stitch's Media Mix 
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