Sunday Linkfest!
Apr. 25th, 2010 10:05 amHi people, and happy Sunday! I have a massive, massive linkfest for you guys this week, which is... irksome, but I will try. So I'll do the groups of links first, then the one-shots.
In the wake of Feminism-vs.-Womanism, Femonomics has a primer on race and feminism. tanglad talks about the imposition of the feminist identity on people who don't support mainstream feminism's goals. Lisa of My Ecydysis has a beautiful montage on what feminism and motherhood means. Blackamazon reminds us in her poetic form, "women who run with wolves don't worry about brand names."
Latest GaimanFail: Debbie Reese, who is currently working on a project in which she studies the representation of American Indians in children's literature, came across this thing Neil Gaiman said in a 2008 interview, and was puzzling over it because it's a pretty racist thing to say.![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
kynn takes this up as well. Gaiman sics followers on them. yeloson dryly face-palms. Gaiman apologizes but doesn't quite get what his words were scrutinized for. Deb Reese chronicles further the Twitter exchanges and what happened.
If you're interested in seeing more Aboriginal/Native/First Nations/Indigenous writers, consider plugging NAISA.org's Indigenousfuturisms Writing Contest, specially for Native, First Nations, Indigenous, and Aboriginal students currently enrolled part-time or full-time in any accredited university, college, or high school.
While we're still in the SFF world, Charles Tan rehashed that old turkey hand-wringing on whether people can write cultures that are not their own in a way that pretty much defends the privilege of white writers everywhere, all in the name of protecting people's feelings and "not scaring writers off". Fail occurs in the writing. Deepa D. sighs with a well-reasoned open letter detailing what he got wrong. Somewhere amidst all my clicking, I came across this hilarious piece of fiction that encapsulates the debate.fiction_theory also rolls her eyes.
Into Hollywood now, racebending has news: Mickey Rourke has been slated to play Genghis Khan. WTF-ery ensues. The ghosts of dead racist are still around.
You guys heard of Boobquake? It started with an Iranian cleric saying that women dressing immodestly causes earthquakes. So someone got it into their head to throw up a Facebook event, calling women to dress immodestly tomorrow at a certain time, to see if it really does. Amanda Marcotte thinks this is a bad idea, because in the end? It's degenerating into men getting their jollies off the event and not constructive. Gayle Force entrenches this as a bad idea: way to impose Western ideals on Iranian women, guys! And also, the clerics have direct power over women, and undressing ain't going to do shit for that situation. PodBlack Cat further illustrates how this is yet another example of outside forces fucking in the sandbox that ain't theirs. Ryan Bromsgrove (just another dude) hits the religion angle and points out that this event will make the situation WORSE and give the cleric fodder, because IRAN SITS ON A FAULT-LINE . Try to avoid comments...
In the meantime, Jessica Yee, feminist, champion of Aboriginal causes, sex worker advocate, all-round amazing and fierce, is ROCKING the feminist blogsophere. Check her castigating the hipster hippies who appropriate Native culture. Then for Sexual Assault Awareness Month, she blogs at Feministe on sexual violence in Native communities. This leads to Racialicious guest Anishinaabekwe's post discussing what "invisible minority" means, and why the fuck aren't we listening? Cara at the Curvature continues this vein on the new report on murdered and missing Aboriginal women and girls in Canada.
Feministe's Next Top Troll continues! Trigger Warnings apply - they're nastier and nastier.
The Femocrites Edition
The Virgin/Whore Edition
America The Beautiful Edition
Feminism 201 Edition
Intersectionality Edition
On Bullying:seanan_mcguire talks about why ze doesn't have a library card. FWD
covers a horrific story about a boy whose schoolmates were putting ALCOHOL DISINFECTANT INTO HIS LUNCH MILK. I've been thinking about how we as a society raise our children to be sociopaths, and this just confirms it.
( Group posts done, now the one-shots )
OKAY! Most of the SRS BSNZ over! ( Now for fun stuff... )
In the wake of Feminism-vs.-Womanism, Femonomics has a primer on race and feminism. tanglad talks about the imposition of the feminist identity on people who don't support mainstream feminism's goals. Lisa of My Ecydysis has a beautiful montage on what feminism and motherhood means. Blackamazon reminds us in her poetic form, "women who run with wolves don't worry about brand names."
Latest GaimanFail: Debbie Reese, who is currently working on a project in which she studies the representation of American Indians in children's literature, came across this thing Neil Gaiman said in a 2008 interview, and was puzzling over it because it's a pretty racist thing to say.
kynn takes this up as well. Gaiman sics followers on them. yeloson dryly face-palms. Gaiman apologizes but doesn't quite get what his words were scrutinized for. Deb Reese chronicles further the Twitter exchanges and what happened. If you're interested in seeing more Aboriginal/Native/First Nations/Indigenous writers, consider plugging NAISA.org's Indigenousfuturisms Writing Contest, specially for Native, First Nations, Indigenous, and Aboriginal students currently enrolled part-time or full-time in any accredited university, college, or high school.
While we're still in the SFF world, Charles Tan rehashed that old turkey hand-wringing on whether people can write cultures that are not their own in a way that pretty much defends the privilege of white writers everywhere, all in the name of protecting people's feelings and "not scaring writers off". Fail occurs in the writing. Deepa D. sighs with a well-reasoned open letter detailing what he got wrong. Somewhere amidst all my clicking, I came across this hilarious piece of fiction that encapsulates the debate.
fiction_theory also rolls her eyes.Into Hollywood now, racebending has news: Mickey Rourke has been slated to play Genghis Khan. WTF-ery ensues. The ghosts of dead racist are still around.
You guys heard of Boobquake? It started with an Iranian cleric saying that women dressing immodestly causes earthquakes. So someone got it into their head to throw up a Facebook event, calling women to dress immodestly tomorrow at a certain time, to see if it really does. Amanda Marcotte thinks this is a bad idea, because in the end? It's degenerating into men getting their jollies off the event and not constructive. Gayle Force entrenches this as a bad idea: way to impose Western ideals on Iranian women, guys! And also, the clerics have direct power over women, and undressing ain't going to do shit for that situation. PodBlack Cat further illustrates how this is yet another example of outside forces fucking in the sandbox that ain't theirs. Ryan Bromsgrove (just another dude) hits the religion angle and points out that this event will make the situation WORSE and give the cleric fodder, because IRAN SITS ON A FAULT-LINE . Try to avoid comments...
In the meantime, Jessica Yee, feminist, champion of Aboriginal causes, sex worker advocate, all-round amazing and fierce, is ROCKING the feminist blogsophere. Check her castigating the hipster hippies who appropriate Native culture. Then for Sexual Assault Awareness Month, she blogs at Feministe on sexual violence in Native communities. This leads to Racialicious guest Anishinaabekwe's post discussing what "invisible minority" means, and why the fuck aren't we listening? Cara at the Curvature continues this vein on the new report on murdered and missing Aboriginal women and girls in Canada.
Feministe's Next Top Troll continues! Trigger Warnings apply - they're nastier and nastier.
The Femocrites Edition
The Virgin/Whore Edition
America The Beautiful Edition
Feminism 201 Edition
Intersectionality Edition
On Bullying:
seanan_mcguire talks about why ze doesn't have a library card. FWDcovers a horrific story about a boy whose schoolmates were putting ALCOHOL DISINFECTANT INTO HIS LUNCH MILK. I've been thinking about how we as a society raise our children to be sociopaths, and this just confirms it.
( Group posts done, now the one-shots )
OKAY! Most of the SRS BSNZ over! ( Now for fun stuff... )