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Tag Archives: fandom antiblackness
What Fandom Racism Looks Like: No Safe Space/”Curate Your Space”
I currently have almost three hundred thousand people blocked on my main (still locked) Twitter. Half of them aren’t because of any specific fandom thing (once, I chainblocked a massive “Report for [SPECIFIC IDOL]” account to see if it’d work … Continue reading
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Facing Backlash For Anti-Racism… It’s More Common Than You’d Think
When people of color talk about racism in a given space, we are always met with a truly disproportionate amount of anger. We are harassed, made into harassers, and essentially “policed” into silence, often by people who are publicly progressive … Continue reading
Meme-ing For A Reason #6 – You Used To Be Able To Hide Your Dogwhistles…
Being anti-racist in fandom is only equal to anti fandom… if you’re a racist and you think that your bigotry is integral to the shape of fandom as you know and love it. Continue reading
[Thread Collection] Pro-Everything But Reading Comprehension, I see
Thread on my locked account from Jun 17, 2020. What I wrote: Black characters get a specific kind of racist fanwork where it’s clear that the author is using fandom and their fanworks to abuse and torture them into place. … Continue reading
A Thought Exercise On Antiblack Microaggressions In Fandom, I Suppose
I just want to talk about how people purposefully misrepresent my work/tweets and assign meanings to it that are actually entirely absent. Because I need to walk through the weirdness to see if I can make it make sense to … Continue reading
Meme-Ing For A Reason #5 – Take The BLM Out of Your Bio
I cannot get over how many people continue to be antiblack on main while having the nerve to have the Black Lives Matter hashtag in their Twitter (or another social media accounts) bio or in the header of their account. Continue reading
What Fandom Racism Looks Like: “You’re Silencing Meeeee (Feat. Determined Derailers)”
It’s a recurring theme that I am somehow silencing other BIPOC fans by… having and using my own website, twitter account, and the rare external platforms I’ve been offered across the past six years. Continue reading
WHEN CAN WE TALK ABOUT RACISM IN FANDOM?
So, if someone tries to tell you that now (whenever “now” is for you) isn’t a good time to talk about racism in fandom because there’s too much going on or… that there’s somehow nothing going on and you’re ruining their buzz? Point out that there’s no better time to talk about racism in fandom than the present because fandom is racist… in the present. Continue reading
Stitch Wraps Up 2020
A lot happened in 2020. While it’s been one stressful year, it’s also been a year where I’ve pretty much stayed booked and busy and writing. So for those of you who aren’t super duper online, here’s what you’ve missed … Continue reading
Meme-ing For A Reason #3 – Fandom’s Amy Coopers
I already made the Amy Cooper comparison back in June in Why Write About Fandom Racism At A Time Like This? where I talked about what the racism in the supposedly progressive queer/women run fandom spaces looks like: It looks a … Continue reading
Thread Collection: Scapegoats (6/6/2019)
Originally posted as a thread on Twitter on June 6, 2019 Can we all agree that it’s beyond fucked up that across multiple fandom spaces, Black people IN fandom, when critical OF fandom (usually for racism/racist fan works), are seen/portrayed … Continue reading
Thread Collection: FFA Racism Instance (7/22/20)
Originally a thread on Twitter. Collecting threads to make things more accessible since I essay there too for folks off of twitter. Oh sorry not gone because guess what, people keep lying on me (and Rukmini) in this whole AO3 … Continue reading
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Short, Sharp, and Simple: I’m Tired of White Fragility in Fandom
Please understand how funny it is to see someone (who I don’t know and who certainly does not know me considering how much they’re lying about me in that tweet alone) publicly admit that the reason they don’t like my … Continue reading
What Fandom Racism Looks Like: The Cult(ure) of Nice
One of the things that a lifetime in fandom and a few years in publishing have taught me that niceness is frequently utilized by some of the meanest people that you will ever meet. Continue reading
Antiblackness in (Service of) the Archive: A Statement
Huge chunks of transformative fandom are currently playing the most actively antiblack game of telephone in the world. And I’m the subject. What will I be by the time they’re done? I’m already being compared to trans exclusionary radical feminists … Continue reading
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