Here are some great posts about Race in sci-fi/fantasy by alias_sqbr : Race as a metaphor for race: Part One Signs your aliens are a dodgy stereotype in disguise More about race and fandom.

I think I'm at 2 and 3? Anyway: these are both great movies. I reviewed them both at my lj , but in brief: "Persopolis" is an adaptation of the (awesome) graphic novel of the same name, and is the autobiography of the youth of Iranian graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi. I don't usually like (auto)biographies but I really enjoyed both the book and the movie. It made me cry but I came out of it overall...

I enjoyed this but didn't LOVE it, but I'm not a huge fan of YA. I reviewed it a bit more at my lj .

Supernatural romance set in Taiwan. This was flawed but a lot of fun. I wrote a longer review at my lj (since we've had a bunch of reviews of her stuff here recently). Yay for this comm introducing me to a new awesome author :)

Hello Fen! To make browsing easier, I have compiled a list of all Shatter the Silence posts: Personal Essays/Thoughts terajjin : Shatter the Silence bonniebelle29 : I Didn't Know telesilla : Ruth's Three Rules of Being an Ally furikku : On diversity nnaloh : Looking for clues haddayr : My post witchsistah...

Hello Fen! To make browsing easier, I have compiled a list of all Shatter the Silence posts: Essays and Personal Thoughts terajjin :  Shatter the Silence hapex_legomena  : FOC_U: My Anger Is Not An Isolated Incident bonniebelle29  :  I Didn't Know telesilla  : Ruth's Three Rules of Being an Ally furikku  : On diversity nnaloh  :  Looking...

Following on from  community.livejournal.com/debunkingwhite/8 15790.html , a few (white) members thought it was worth creating a post to capture some of the specific actions white people here should be taking to debunk their own/each other’s whiteness. We also thought it important to address the handling by white members of problematic posts and comments. The context of the thread was  alias_sqbr...

alias_sqbr  says: Last night I discoevered swirlygate , a set of 5 short fun web-episodes set on "Swirlygate Atlantis" starring Joan Sheppard and Meredith McKay. Anyway, in the "Bloopers and Thanks" section they encourage people to think about gender and race etc in the show themselves, and I was suddenly struck by the image of a male Teyla and female Ronon (everyone else's...

Today is blgging about disablism day  blobolobolob.blogspot.com/2009/05/blogging-against-disablism-day-2009.html Feel free to take part, I think you still can. I am about to go write a post but i will leave you with a few links which have been good so far: A post by rachelcreative on her blog. Rachel created the art work we use on the Blue Ribbon Campaign site. rachelcreative.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/when...

So apparently ye old geocities is shutting down.  I imagine it's not making enough money for it's costs.  Either that or it barely gets any traffic anymore.  Anyway  alias_sqbr  remined me about it when made a post linking to her old geocities page.  So I figure I'll join her in a nostalgia trip. This here is the very first webpage I ever made.  I think I made it in the last  few years of...