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Link Lineup – November BONUS
Everyone’s writing such good content and I can’t actually bring myself to wait until December to share some of the stuff I’ve read since the last Link Lineup post! So bonus links for all! Continue reading
Posted in Stitch Links To Stuff
Tagged antiblackness, K-Pop, racism, white supremacist history
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Link Lineup – October 2020
Hey friends and assorted nerds, I come bearing some links to things that have held my attention since last time we did this! Go read, watch, or listen to them right away! John Boyega: ‘I’m the only cast member whose … Continue reading
Posted in Links I Liked
Tagged anti-racism, antiblackness, BTS, celebrities, fandom, hip hop, Links I Liked, racism
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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
Posted in What Fandom Racism Looks Like
Tagged fandom antiblackness, fandom racism, racism, the archive
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Fleeting Frustrations #3: When White Queer Icons Like Ezra Miller Fail Us
It’s more important that we bask in Ezra Miller’s star as it begins to crest than we have the tough conversations about what it means that a queer icon getting visibility is partially responsible for a film that attempts to flat out humanize Darren Wilson, a murderer who killed Mike Brown because he was Black and read as a threat to Wilson because of it. Continue reading
Too White Bread for This Shit: Race and Racism in Laurell K Hamilton’s Urban Fantasy Series
“I’m so white-bread, if you cut me I’d bleed bleached flour! I have no ethnicity to me, and I’ve always wanted some.” – Laurell K. Hamilton in an interview excerpted from Locus Magazine. I’ve been reading Laurell K. Hamilton’s urban … Continue reading
Posted in Book Talk, The Great Big Anita Blake ReRead
Tagged Anita Blake, Merry Gentry, race, racism, urban fantasy 101
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The Great Big Anita Blake Reread – Circus of the Damned
“He’s dead, Richard, a walking corpse. It doesn’t matter how pretty he is, or how compelling, he’s still dead. I don’t date corpses. A girl’s got to have some standards.” — Anita on why she won’t give in to Jean-Claude … Continue reading
Posted in The Great Big Anita Blake ReRead
Tagged Anita Blake, book review, Laurel K Hamilton, racism, urban fantasy
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Urban Fantasy 101 – Weird Ass Werewolf Tropes
Content warnings: This installment of Urban Fantasy 101 contains references to or descriptions of racism, homophobia, heterocentrism, sexual assault, childhood abuse, domestic abuse, other forms of discrimination. There are also tons of footnotes. Werewolves are everywhere in the urban fantasy … Continue reading
The Great Big Anita Blake Reread – Guilty Pleasures
Content Warnings: This review of Guilty Pleasures talks about the following content that readers may find disturbing, upsetting, or triggering: racism, internalized misogyny, victim blaming with regard to childhood abuse and sexual trauma, sex worker shaming, connecting sex work with … Continue reading
Posted in The Great Big Anita Blake ReRead
Tagged Anita Blake, Guilty Pleasures, Laurel K Hamilton, misogyny, racism, urban fantasy, vampires
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Urban Fantasy 101 – Allegory Overuse (ft. Laurell K Hamilton’s Anita Blake series and JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series)
Content warnings: this installment of Urban Fantasy 101 contains very brief mentions historical acts of oppression (largely in vague terms), sexual assault and pedophilia in Laurel K Hamilton’s Anita Blake series, as well as more indepth references to anti-Black and anti-Native … Continue reading
[Guest Post] The Dragon Age Fandom Hates Characters (and People) of Color
Note: Previously posted on the website Fandoms Hate People of Color (click the link to reblog it), I received permission to host this essay about the experiences one fan of color (who has requested to remain anonymous) had and witnessed … Continue reading
Posted in Fandom, Guest Posts
Tagged Dragon Age, Dragon Age Inquisition, fandom, fandom racism, racism, Vivienne
Letters to the Author – Afton Locke
Note that this Letter to the Author contains graphic descriptions of racism and racist violence (sexual and otherwise) as it relates to the reality of white supremacy in history and historical romances. Dear Afton Locke, I could write you about … Continue reading
Grayson #20 and WOC as the “Wrong Choice” Love Interests
Note: You may disagree with this reading. You may think that’s not a valid reading. That’s fine, but as experiencing misogynoir in a comic that I adore and having clear proof that women of color (especially Black women) will always … Continue reading
Posted in Comic Book, DC Comics
Tagged Colin Kelly, DC Comics, Dick Grayson, Grayson, helena bertinelli, Jackson Lanzing, misogynoir, racism
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