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If a white person calls me a nigger, that’s pretty racist, right? I mean, if someone is willing to use that particular word against me, that’s not a mistake, that’s not an oops, that’s not a slip of...
View ArticleJonathan Strahan Apologizes
I’ll crosspost this on FSF blog when I get a chance unless someone else beats me to it. I feel that this deserves just as much attention as the issue that caused it: The truth is that under the...
View ArticleStarting Some Shit
Did Paul Di Filippo just compare women and minorities to vegetables? I think he just did. (You’ll have to scroll.) Starting Some Shit is a post from: K. Tempest Bradford
View ArticleOnce More, With Feeling: Intersectionality
Or: why the Male Only Table of Contents issue is about both Gender and Race So over on Marguerite’s blog editor Mike Ashley of the Mammoth Book of White Men Fail Mindbowing SF explains that the...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Mike Ashley
Dear Sir, Though you have taken time to give a poor explanation of why there are no women in your anthology, I have yet to see you give any explanation as to why there are no writers of color in it,...
View ArticleCreating Better Magazines
Yesterday at Tor.com I nattered on about what it takes to create better magazines. Was at work when it went up, so I didn’t get a chance to post about it. The conversation in comments is actually...
View ArticleEditorial Work Is Hard
Or so says Claire Light: …how do you — not “become a good editor” but — change the way you do business so that your editing becomes more than an exercise in futility? Here are some steps: Go out an...
View ArticleI Like Lists, They Blow My Mind
Over on Tor.com I collated the stories, novels, and authors suggested in my ABW and FeministSF posts on mindblowing SF by women and POC. The list is quite long but is far from exhaustive. If you want...
View ArticleGender Imbalance, Again. Mansplaining, Again. Bleh.
The latest entry in the Gender Imbalance Hall of Fame appears to be Solaris Rising: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction edited by Ian Whates. Of the 21 contributors there are 4 women[1]. You may...
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