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people of colour sf carnival info guidelines hosting submission form contact recent state of bulletin this is what dc refuses to do bulletin state of asian super heroes go to san diego viacom in ur protest trying to hide it carnival of merit special edition announcement issue 12 heads up new sheriff submissions needed for next carnival archives may 2007 june 2007 july 2007 august 2007 september 2007 october 2007 november 2007 december 2007 january 2008 february 2008 may 2008 july 2008 august 2008 october 2008 december 2008 february 2009 march 2009 april 2009 july 2009 november 2009 december 2009 issues issue 1 issue 2 issue 3 issue 4 issue 5 issue 6 issue 7 issue 8 issue 9 issue 10 issue 11a issue 11b special edition 1 special edition 2 links simpy links feed search people of colour sf carnival a visible space for fen creators of color in the blogsphere experiments are about more than success they are about trying this is an experiment in community building this experiment is about changing the fact that we are not being seen it s about creating a touchstone for links to other thoughts and other people who are people of color involved in science fiction and fantasy faces of color state of thursday december 31 2009 it has been a year and oh what a year exhausting draining somewhat or more depressing definitely illuminating and all through it i had no impetus whatsoever to tap signed hosts or look for new ones and get things rolling on the poc in sf carnival i felt no need to get anyone involved in collecting links to the quite frankly bullshit white privilege that coated the entire year and for a good part of the year linkspam took on that role while conversations happened in public and in private wearying and sometimes repetitive i gave myself till december to see how i was feeling cause quite frankly looking at the carnival after looking at those conversations made me cry yes i m admitting it i saw white people acting the fool and they made me cry and while i was recovering from those injuries what did you think strong black women feel no pain my focus shifted i am no longer comfortable just trying to be a presence just trying to prove poc have conversations about sf are consumers and creators as stated before i want to have a conversation a certain type of conversation this is true it s the conversation i want to have and the poc in sf carnival as it was in 2008 doesn t quite fit i could it is true hand the carnival over and if someone really wanted to gather links under that title with added commentary and seemed sincere and contacted me i believe i would hand it over what i would like to do what has occurred to me to do is drop the carnival part of the title poc in sf as a blog centered in and promoting the conversation i want to have with regular bloggers and guest posts not something that happens once a month but something some where to go to on any day somewhere to have the conversation versus mainly only pointing out where parts of the conversation have been happening something more inclusive of the myriad voices that are non white peoples something more inclusive of the myriad non english speaking or at least english secondary voices so now i understand what i want why the carnival was not enough to be used in 2009 all that s left is figuring out how i will go about creating the space i want for the community i want and where additional note aka some harsh truths the poc in sf carnival was started because of my frequent pointing out at how other carnivals with related issues consistently left out non white povs the response to which was essentially go make your own to which i did and i will always be grateful that ragnell put that idea into my head even if it was because i couldn t put intersection of issues into hers but i don t want to even unconsciously follow that mold anymore because part of following that way of doing things involves exclusion a certain navel gazing and kind of grubby space guarding i want to create my own space my own institution my own node and i don t want to do it alone moreover i want it to actively include those non white romance writers for example who re trying to write something that doesn t fit the mold of what their people are supposed to write about which in terms of blacks in the us would be ghetto lit and christian romance occasionally the story of millicent millenia black has never left my mind sorry penguin books you can t purge people s memories and 2009 has shown me and shown me and shown me that such a space for discussion is needed actually more than one space for such discussion is needed because one singular space cannot be everything to a varied group of people poc non white peoples in genre fiction not a monolith labels admin author avalon s willow comments bulletin this is what dc refuses to do saturday november 14 2009 back in august i mentioned a project being done one named everyone survives to the 31st century i was hesitant then to promote it outside of emails and twitter dm s because it was so wonderful to me i did not want to see some white jerkarse from dc slap a cease desist on it and try and or succeed in getting it pulled down the legion of superheroes as multiethnic and diverse truly reflecting the complexity that is human physical appearance on earth with hints of sociological diversity as well but the project is over now it is three issues and a coda showing what could have been had dc not been filled with individuals who put more stock in tokenism and propagating white supremacy and authority above even good storytelling oh they won t describe themselves as such but a future where everyone from humans to very humanoid aliens are all white and their general strain of only light skinned minorities have even bit parts to play that colourism the combination of the two that s white supremacy plain and simple that s the sociological disease that says only white people have been are and will ever be important odditycollector in her social experiment one of the few times the phrase means something positive on the internet has thoroughly shamed dc and thoroughly delighted me issue 1 issue 2 issue 3 coda a space opera odyssey i could invest in if dc had any interest in telling stories outside the echo chamber of white male power xposted seeking avalon labels special bulletin year 2009 author avalon s willow comments bulletin state of monday july 27 2009 2009 has been the fail year everytime one turns around someone s being idiotic in a spectacular way about race the spectacular is the way it s different from all the other years but spectacular is exhausting spectacular you see equals post racial and that lie is one overfed over indulged blood sucking leech on the arm of activism or at least my activism january to march took up all sorts of energy with race fail part 1 then came part 2 mammoth fail in april and may and part 3 cover fail cover gate in july with harlan ellison being harlan ellison and using the word n and justine larbalestier s blog hosted discussion on the whitewashing of book covers including her newest ya book liar there s still august september october november and december to go for five to three more big things big as in not counting the little omgwtf indignities and outrages and this is all speculative fiction associated this does not include the vetting process for soon to be justice sonia sotomayor or the philly pool complexion situation or henry skip gates or the brooklyn lesbians of colour victims of police brutality situation this isn t counting the email with the photoshopped watermelons on the white house lawn this isn t counting the email with the photoshopped 44th potus as a black square with jigaboo eyes and i m pretty sure there was a third email incident i m just not remembering this also isn t counting the racist political cartoon of a dead chimp with cops discussing the stimulus bill or pat buchannan talking about how white men built america this week in blackness put it succinctly 2009 is the new 1952 or at least for those of us who didn t live through 1952 with nonwhite skins each incident is feeling a heck of a lot like how we ve imagined moments in 1952 must have been like frustrating painful and eating into one s strength i ve found it extremely exhausting don t you find it exhausting just reading the list do you remember the things i haven t mentioned so far because there s been more a whole heck of a lot more both speculative fiction oriented and non writing political some hints wiscon readercon robin mckinely saying she s going to be considering the potus to be a tanned white man prince of persia with white male lead and of course avatar the last airbender being racebended to have white heroes and brown villains because poc heroes aren t realistic don t sell blah blah white privilege excuses blah 2009 has been a banner year for saying if you aren t white you don t belong i pause now for a potentially blurry set of references cockroaches in space district 9 alien nation remake if you aren t white you don t belong sure it s more overt than it s been in a while but it s not as if folk don t know what the whitewashed covers and white actors in roles for characters of colour have meant for all these years it s not as if folk haven t known why in the future poc rarely seem to exist or why the forbidden kingdom despite being all about jackie chan and jet li needed a white boy to move the narrative along so it s international blog against racism week but i m exhausted because 2009 has felt like a blog against racism year that said however 1 teens of colour reading and reviewing books 2 a detroit organization operating a library and offering support to young women 3 zulu mech 1 yes african mechas a series produced by wesley snipes meanwhile i ll continue regrouping enough to do more than blog occasionally about what absolutely infuriates me regroup so i can go back to organizing the carnival and not feel burned out just by living labels bulletin finally an avatar tag year 2009 author avalon s willow comments asian super heroes go to san diego monday july 20 2009 angry asian man has the details of secret identities at san diego comic con asian american superhero contest secret identities in case you forgot is an asian superhero anthology yup still fighting the disease malaise lethargy every time i want to promote something poc poc comic related it s like i can feel the full weight of the white stupid it will have to fight against just to exist ugh but baby steps yes labels special bulletin author avalon s willow comments viacom in ur protest trying to hide it tuesday april 28 2009 viacom has sent zazzle a cease and desist and it has pulled the racebending com merchandise from its offerings more information and image files of the correspondence here glockgal on livejournal but apparently it s a violation of copyright to use even the word aang below is the c p of letter i tried to send to viacom via this form but it s 8 13pm est april 28th and i can t find a send button update it appears to have been my browser being resoundingly weird go here for the complete timeline of viacom paramount pictures racist fail more of my thoughts a seeking avalon labels finally an avatar tag author avalon s willow comments carnival of merit sunday april 5 2009 the asian woman carnival is live yennenga a community on livejournal despite the mental break i ve been taking from things like this i m devouring it i ve only gone through maybe a quarter of it so far but there s powerful stuff there things to make you think about yourself about life about other people about invisibility good stuff a really good carnival an amazing first carnival issue go read labels carnivals of merit author avalon s willow comments special edition announcement friday march 6 2009 poc in sf f carnival special edition interrogating the text de colonizing the mind an intra poc dialogue this special edition of the poc in sf f carnival is once again dedicated to intra poc dialogue separated by time and distance joined by personal experience and on offline interaction our lives together are not always a bed of roses in the wake of recent events what s next on the horizon for intra poc relations how do i you me we go about creating those places where our own efforts shine while at the same time work through those things that divide us contributors are invited to engage the theme as they choose it s a jumping off point but not necessarily a cliff caveat since people of color poc is not necessarily a universally used term especially by fans living outside of the us i encourage those who have other ways of defining themselves for example non white fen of pigment chromatic to step up and participate feel free to post this notice far and wide send your links to ladyj dot 965 at gmail dot com deadline for submission march 27 2009 host ladyjax location boom_tube aka ladyjax s other not so used livejournal questions ladyj dot 965 at gmail dot com we ve already started this with poc author character story reccs but the carnival is part of our infrastructure and i look forward to seeing yet another aspect of the conversations we want to have also please do not forget the asian woman blog carnival deadline april 3rd 2009 labels bulletin special_issue author avalon s willow comments designed by iframe and blogger templates powered by blogger people of colour sf carnival 2007