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Tag Archives: whitewashing
What Fandom Racism Looks Like: Migratory Slash Fandom’s Focus
Note: The section on RPF and whtiewashing deals pretty plainly with real person fan fiction – where a real celebrity is treated like a character in fan works – but from the POV of “stop whitewashing them” rather than a … Continue reading
Posted in What Fandom Racism Looks Like
Tagged BTS, fandom racism, RPF, shipping culture, slash fandom, whitewashing
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Dear Comic Fans, Guess What: You’re Still Not Handling Racebending and Diverse Casting Very Well!
We did this in 2015. And in 2016. Now it’s 2017 and I’ve got at least four different posts on racebending under my belt because nerds still don’t know how to behave. This is an ongoing project looking at the … Continue reading
Posted in Comic Book
Tagged anna diop, ed skrein, fandom racism, race/racism, racebending, representation, starfire, whitewashing
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“What if a white guy played Black Panther?”: The Fake Concern of Fake Geek Guys
Whenever I talk about racebending as a concept when it comes to comics and comics-related properties, smartasses always show up to say something snarky like “what if Black Panther or some other Black hero were a white guy”. They crowd … Continue reading
Posted in Fandom, Marvel Comics
Tagged Black Panther, fandom racism, racebending, whitewashing
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Dear Comic Fans: We Get it. You’re racist and racebending scares you.
Why are comic book fans so darn mad when a comic book character gets the racebending treatment?
For the most part, comic book fans are so very predictable when it comes to race.
Nothing pisses comic fans off more than a historically white character being racebent and therefore turned into a character of color or when a character of color takes over a legacy title (Like Superman, Spider-Man, or Ms. Marvel). Continue reading
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