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In Which I am Mean to Mulan
Reposted from my tumblrAs a young-ish Asian American girl when Mulan first came out in the early 2000s, I distinctly remember not liking Mulan's appearance. I never really pinned down why exactly this was until recently ( Read more... ) -
On Obama, Bell, and what Critical Race Theory is to me
First it was "social justice."
Given its liberal bent, the term " social justice" was always going to be somewhat open to interpretation. Glenn Beck said that "social justice" is a "perversion of the gospel", and ever since then politicians have been wary about using those two words.
In speaking about social justice, Beck also said that "Progressives ( Read more... ) -
The deal with Jeremy Lin
Time magazine reports that China's state-run media, Xinhua, has called on Jeremy Lin to renounce his U.S. citizenship and join the Chinese Olympic Team. The article speculates about whether or not Lin should, and includes quotes encouraging Lin to play for China's since the U.S. Olympic team doesn't think he makes the cut since he hasn't played ( Read more... ) -
Straight A's
One of the interesting and frustrating things I've observed in my graduate program is the attitude that "grades don't matter." This is not just from the professors--who take great pains to remind us: "Your grades in graduate school don't matter. No one is going to care. Well, unless you're going to get a Ph.D. Then they might care."--but from ( Read more... ) -
The Last Great Civil Rights Battle of All Time
I am a cranky, crotchety, person.
Yesterday I heard on the radio commentary from director Rob Reiner. Reiner is an awesome advocate, and I respect him. He is going to make a movie about the Prop. 8 trial, which is fantastic because the videos of the trial were blocked to the public. (I pieced through some transcripts here, hereand here.)
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FOX News's epic "translation" of a CNN article
Back in September, CNN covered a child named Tammy who is transgender. The article talks about Tammy's childhood struggling with being born "Thomas" and the journey her family went through. It then talks about the transgender hormone therapy Tammy is receiving to delay puberty. By delaying the development of secondary sex characteristics, when ( Read more... ) -
On who can be --ist and the need for a new lexicon
I was out with a group of friends a few days ago and a conversation about my really inexpensive (but apparently has problematic plumbing) apartment came up. The origin story for Casa Jedifreac.
The truth is, my apartment is brilliantly cheap for the area I live in. The narrative behind why that is is a bit more complicated than that. If you ask ( Read more... ) -
Star Wars Gets Slap-Happy
And the reason why I just vommitted my summary about talking to Star Wars writers (below) at ComicCon was really to add context to my heavy discontent about recent developments in the Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi series as surmised by Tricia the FanGirl at FanGirlBlog.com.
[First off I want to say that Fangirlblog.com is a great blog and Tricia ( Read more... ) -
Talking to the Star Wars Editor in Chief and a Writer at ComicCon
After my previous complaints (concerns? complaints?) about diversity in Star Wars I thought I should follow up with an update. In between all the fangirling and Racebending.com work at ComicCon I managed to get some "diversity in Star Wars advocacy in." You know, beyond my complaining on intarwebs work.I did not end up going to the EU Books ( Read more... ) -
Riding my High Tauntaun with my Minority Agenda
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... )