The Oopsie Forgot It Was Due Linkfest
Aug. 8th, 2011 10:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jhameiaExcuses: sickness, running around doing stuff, revising my MRP, and just mopin'.
But the links are fun!
What Is A Malay? A look at the construction of the Malay identity and how race lines are also class lines in Malaysia.
Call for Submissions for a steampunk anthology. If you're on Tumblr, you can reblog it, along with my snark on how we need more POC writers submitting POC steampunk because the chances of Orientalist Fail is high.
Shweta Narayan wrote a poem on How To Be A Good Minority and there's a follow-up.
Star Tribune story on a truck driver's life.
Al-Jazeera article on the biggest threat to Western values: neoliberalism, not multiculturalism.
NYT: Putting an Antebellum Myth about Slave Families to Rest. None of your ignorant "black families were so much better back in the days of slavery" nonsense, Bachmann. Stop.
alothian shared this piece on Shame in Academic Writing... aka, WE ARE ALL FUCKING INSECURE IN ACADEMIA.
Rolling Stone article on how the world failed Haiti. Depressing shit.
Nora Jemisin is looking for more examples of postcolonial SFF.
Tempest On community, trust, responsibility, consequences (re: Kynn)
Yomi Ayeni, a Brit of Nigerian descent, got in touch with me sometime last year to tell me about this project: Clockwork Watch, which is going to be a transmedia project.
But the links are fun!
What Is A Malay? A look at the construction of the Malay identity and how race lines are also class lines in Malaysia.
Call for Submissions for a steampunk anthology. If you're on Tumblr, you can reblog it, along with my snark on how we need more POC writers submitting POC steampunk because the chances of Orientalist Fail is high.
Shweta Narayan wrote a poem on How To Be A Good Minority and there's a follow-up.
Star Tribune story on a truck driver's life.
Al-Jazeera article on the biggest threat to Western values: neoliberalism, not multiculturalism.
NYT: Putting an Antebellum Myth about Slave Families to Rest. None of your ignorant "black families were so much better back in the days of slavery" nonsense, Bachmann. Stop.
alothian shared this piece on Shame in Academic Writing... aka, WE ARE ALL FUCKING INSECURE IN ACADEMIA.Rolling Stone article on how the world failed Haiti. Depressing shit.
Nora Jemisin is looking for more examples of postcolonial SFF.
Tempest On community, trust, responsibility, consequences (re: Kynn)
Yomi Ayeni, a Brit of Nigerian descent, got in touch with me sometime last year to tell me about this project: Clockwork Watch, which is going to be a transmedia project.