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druidspellAuthors and editors whom I will never read (again, or ever) or support: Elizabeth Bear. Kathryn Cramer. Will Shetterly. Emma Bull. Teresa Nielsen Hayden. Patrick Nielsen Hayden. David Levine. Luke Jackson. Jay Lake. Lisa L. Spangenberg. John Scalzi. Macallister Stone.
Publishing houses I will never submit my work to, and that I will think seriously about buying from and supporting with my money in the future, especially if any of the aforementioned authors or editors may profit from said money: Tor.
RaceFail 2009, Great Cultural Appropriation Debate of Doom, has gone on for three months now. And frankly, the authors and editors listed above STILL don't understand why their behavior is seen as skeevy, wrong, and abusive. I won't stop keeping up with the meta on RaceFail '09, but I will NEVER see SF/F in the same light. As a writer and a reader, it causes me pain to know how awful SF/F can be, but my pain is NOTHING compared to the pain it's caused some others. It's my duty as a dedicated fan and a decent human being to not bury my head in the sand because it makes me sad and tired as a white person to see all this fail happening in one short span of time; because I am a white person, with all the privilege that entails, I should NEVER turn around and ignore it, because anyone without white privilege doesn't get that option.
Any of you can disagree with this. You can de-friend me, and ask me to de-friend you in return. I will probably be hurt by that, but I'll do it, and I'm declaring a De-Friending Amnesty around here. If my opinions that I've expressed briefly here offend you, go ahead and walk away from them, and go with my blessing.
For those of you on my flist not involved with fandom in the same ways that I am, and who would like to understand why I'm boycotting these people, you can check out![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rydra_wong's roundup of the links dealing with this racist, classist, elitist bullshit here. To give you an idea of the scope of things, there's more than 200 links in there, compiled in 77 entries thus far. RaceFail happened, and it happened in a big way, and it affected a lot of people.
Publishing houses I will never submit my work to, and that I will think seriously about buying from and supporting with my money in the future, especially if any of the aforementioned authors or editors may profit from said money: Tor.
RaceFail 2009, Great Cultural Appropriation Debate of Doom, has gone on for three months now. And frankly, the authors and editors listed above STILL don't understand why their behavior is seen as skeevy, wrong, and abusive. I won't stop keeping up with the meta on RaceFail '09, but I will NEVER see SF/F in the same light. As a writer and a reader, it causes me pain to know how awful SF/F can be, but my pain is NOTHING compared to the pain it's caused some others. It's my duty as a dedicated fan and a decent human being to not bury my head in the sand because it makes me sad and tired as a white person to see all this fail happening in one short span of time; because I am a white person, with all the privilege that entails, I should NEVER turn around and ignore it, because anyone without white privilege doesn't get that option.
Any of you can disagree with this. You can de-friend me, and ask me to de-friend you in return. I will probably be hurt by that, but I'll do it, and I'm declaring a De-Friending Amnesty around here. If my opinions that I've expressed briefly here offend you, go ahead and walk away from them, and go with my blessing.
For those of you on my flist not involved with fandom in the same ways that I am, and who would like to understand why I'm boycotting these people, you can check out
rydra_wong's roundup of the links dealing with this racist, classist, elitist bullshit here. To give you an idea of the scope of things, there's more than 200 links in there, compiled in 77 entries thus far. RaceFail happened, and it happened in a big way, and it affected a lot of people.
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