Racefail ’09 continues. Of course it does. It’s almost unbelievable that there’s such little impact on some white people, but that’s privilege for you. Utterly shameless. I’m not going to say they should know better, because they do know better.
I do not want to go through this all again, so here are my two previous Racefail posts: About the FSF fandom explosion over race and It’s time for a Racefail update!.
Two succinct summaries:
The Angry Black Woman has A (Slightly Different) Call for Creativity.
Liz Henry of Feminist SF – The Blog! has MammothFail ’09
A new LJ comm: Fen of Color United.
Lastly, Justine Larbalestier has brings her own (white, female, SF person) perspective in Invisible Audiences? Invisible to Whom?. Thanks to Mim of Mim’s Muddles for the link tip.
Science fiction has so much scope for imagining lives outside of our constraints and engaging powerfully with our situations. This is the world of the marginalised. Don’t do this to us.
Note: I think this is the first post I’ve written in which I present myself as non-white rather than invisibilising my identity/situation. How about that.
I think this is the first post I’ve written in which I present myself as non-white rather than invisibilising my identity/situation.
Aaaaggghhh! MUST learn to stop making assumptions! Too quick to make white the default neutral.
[Kicking myself in frustration with my own stuck-in-the-mud-dyed-in-the-wool stupidity.]
I’m too quick to make heterosexual the default neutral, so I get ya. I am actually one of the palest people you’ve ever met, but yeah, identify as non-white or not quite white. It says so on my about page but not anywhere else I think.
Your post has been included in a linkspam roundup.
I think it is largely a matter of personality. Some people just need to talk, and argue, and hear themselves talk and argue.
http://josephrobertlewis.wordpress.com/2009/05/20/racefail-author-versus-audience/