Comments | jedifreac: Riding my High Tauntaun with my Minority Agenda

jedifreac

Riding my High Tauntaun with my Minority Agenda

May 20, 2011 01:14

Shelly Shapiro, the editor at DelRey in charge of Star Wars books, did a Facebook chat today which you can read here: Star Wars Books Facebook Chat with Shelly Shapiro.

I went out on a limb and decided to ask her about diversity in Star Wars Expanded Universe (EU). I guess bringing up lack of diversity in EU made people uncomfortable because this ( Read more... )

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jedifreac May 20 2011, 16:31:44 UTC

I played in a Warhammer 40k campaign. One thing I liked was that during character creation you have to roll for skin color. So our campaign of Inquisitors was not a country club. Warhammer wasn't immune to whitewashing, though.

djcati May 20 2011, 13:01:03 UTC

Man, this is another reason I wish I was going to D*C this year. The panels have gotten a little more srs bsns over the past couple years and we already managed to make Kevin J Anderson look like a dumbass over this very issue. And Shelly Shapiro is going this year! I want to pose awkward questions while Aaron Allston quietly doesn't approve out loud because he doesn't want to get fired.

Not that anyone needs me for that. There are plenty of other con-goers to pick up the slack! I'll make sure someone suggests revisiting the "Race & Star Wars" panel this year, hopefully with Shapiro sitting on it.

djcati May 20 2011, 13:03:31 UTC

(I just realised I never posted about D*C 2010, thus no one got to hear about the race panel which was headed by a bunch of white middle-class folk (myself included). And now I don't remember enough to properly recap it. Sadness.)

jedifreac May 20 2011, 16:27:56 UTC

What happened with Kevin J Anderson last year?

djcati May 20 2011, 16:54:22 UTC

The best part was when he compared droid servitude to black slavery as if that was representation or something.

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dkwrkm May 20 2011, 15:07:52 UTC

Well, somebody's gotta stand up for alien rights. They have the right to be represented too apparently more than all y'all women and men of color.

*headdeskheaddesk*

matt_doyle May 20 2011, 20:18:56 UTC

I am very depressed that Del Rey's reaction is exactly what I expected of them.

xkyrie_eleisonx May 23 2011, 04:04:58 UTC

Wow, did you get a chance to respond to her response? I would have jumped in if I'd known!

jedifreac May 23 2011, 04:08:45 UTC

Yeah, it's on the thread. Most people were supportive. The unsupportive comments were deleted.

There's an ongoing conversation about Star Wars and diversity here:
http://boards.theforce.net/literature/b10003/30367020/p1/?438