In Response to a Bad Argument About SF/F, Racism, etc.
If you haven’t seen Damien Walter’s piece on diversity and vocal opposition to it in SF/F, you’ll probably want to read it for context. One of the loudest voices in the comments section is a fellow who calls himself Fail Burton (I assume he’s a he, but I could be wrong — looked on his […]
Criticism Does Not Equal Bullying (or, What Bullying Means to Me)
(Update regarding comments: if you’re here to leave a flippant comment about the issue in question, it is unlikely to get through. Either engage or move on. This is likely to become my comment policy from now on because I really don’t have patience for people who want to treat my comments section as if […]
Ethnic Heritage, Rejection, and Me
A few months back, Julia Rios and I recorded a whole bunch of interviews at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA). One of those interviews involved a discussion about ethnic heritage and its various diversities with Mary Anne Mohanraj and Cecilia Tan, in which I lightly (and rightly) got called out […]
A Cereal Metaphor for the SFF Community
Imagine you have a bowl of cereal, and there are a bunch of other people with bowls of cereal, too. Person A really likes Lucky Charms, which you think are OK, but you’re much more into Cocoa Puffs. Person B likes neither, but prefers Mini Wheats, while Person C enjoys Lucky Charms, but discovered Trix […]
How to Destroy the SFWA…err, no, I’m not going to talk about that after all
This post began as a parody or a satire. Whatever it began as, it was a scathing critique of someone else whose post I’m not going to link to because I just don’t see a point in directly addressing anything said there or using my website as a link vehicle for what amounts to “people […]
Censorship is what people say when they don’t want to address the actual issue…for reasons
The other day, I posted about the SFWA Bulletin Petition thing. I’m not going to rehash that debate here, though you’re welcome to read it (there are links at the bottom of that post to other discussions). However, I do think it a good idea to take a moment to talk about the rhetoric surrounding […]