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No pithy exclamation this week, folks, we're jumping right into the actual episode description: This week, V and Emily are joined by Maggie @bossymarmalade , who was one of the key meta-writers during this unfortunate fandom (and wider writing world) event. "Racefail '09" is the moniker for a lengthy discussion on LiveJournal in 2009 about the role of race in fandom and the SF/F community, from heinous depictions of POC in SF/F titles to the way POC always seem to die first in fan-favorite TV shows to the lack of representation of fans of color at conventions, and more. Maggie very graciously agreed to be on TWIFH as a primary source for what it was like "on the ground" during this touchstone fandom imbroglio, and we are so grateful that she was willing to look back at this turbulent and often painful time with us. Were you a writer or follower of Racefail '09 on LJ? What do you think its legacy is in fandom today?  FanHistory Wiki's Racefail Timeline Avalon's Willow's Racefail Timeline DeepaD's "I Didn't Dream of Dragons" bossymarmalade's "Sees Fire"

This Week In Fandom History is a fandom-centric podcast that tells you… what happened this week in fandom history!

[wonchopanimation]

Did some more animation for Mashed. This time, it’s the interview segments for this new series about pitting vidya minions against each other.

[evilcatgirlwizard]

my boy beeyao deepad gilyan, the prince of void, local dumbass video game journalist

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takecha - Deepad (2020) mini album with 5 tracks included.

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एक बार सुने और समझें, मेरी आवाज तो पहचानते ही होंगे || Deepak Sharma

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Самые свежие работы!

[wildunicornherd]

Settler colonialism in John Marsden & Shaun Tan's “The Rabbits”

A very interesting conversation going on on LJ and Dreamwidth right now, sparked by coffeeandink's review of The Rabbits, a picture book about the colonization of Australia.

In "Settler Colonialism and the Imagined Indigenous Viewpoint", sanguinity comments that Tan's illustrations subvert Marsden's colonial narrative, and goes on to discuss the problematic nature of white authors writing stories from an indigenous viewpoint:

When one lives in a settler-colonialist state, when one is ashamed of or conflicted about one's settler privilege or the actions of one's ancestors, it can appear to be emotionally simpler, easier, to identify with an indigenous viewpoint. "If I had lived then," so many of these books and movies say, "I would have done differently. I would have been on the side of the Natives."

[…] Stop and consider for a moment: what is it saying to your children that so many of you are writing books about settler-colonialism in which you cannot even bear to cast yourselves as white people?

deepad, in "On Casting the Net of Imagination", further criticizes stories that are examples of "a dominant identity wanting to play and fantasise about being an oppressed minority":

I'm not at all convinced such fantasies help foster any sort of meaningful empathy. I think they: a) Deflect attention from the dominant identity's present and actual actions as an oppressor. b) Provide the kind of theatrical catharsis that Boal talks about that will "diminish, placate, satisfy, eliminate all that can break the balance - all, including the revolutionary, transforming impetus". c) Train a mentality that encourages binaries and thereby encourages dominant majorities to frame themselves, however possible, as positive oppressed victim-survivors. d) Legitimise fighting the Other in a more palatable framework while ignoring dismantling one's own position in hegemony and hierarchy. e) Appropriate real life oppressed minority stories of resistance and struggle to construct world focussed on characters the dominant majority can identify with. f) Perpetuate a false diversity of narratives through minority stories told through the lens, identity and with the resources and wealth of the dominant majority.

[…] I think we are far better served by playing with fantasies that help us practise what it is like to recognise ourselves as oppressors and fight ourselves and our systems. After all, it is not that the colonised did not have enough stories of resistance to inspire them to become heroes. The problem was that the colonialists did not have enough stories of repentance and rethinking to prevent them from becoming monsters.

delux_vivens, on the other hand:

i've been thinking about it and I really do kind of disagree. i would say that the issue is not that there arent enough stories (real or speculative). there are plenty of stories, in the US at least, of people getting clues and acting on them. these stories and the people they are about are suppressed, ignored, and cast aside, even as "what these people need is a honky" narratives like avatar become cherished and beloved icons.

Do read all the linked posts if you can.