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And My Entry for the Annual Fuckwittery Award Goes To...
Kemore East High School, who thinks a chant using the word "nigger" is great for school spirit. I'm glad Tyra Batts fought back. She did everything right, from trying to reason with her teammates to talking to to the adults in charge and they dropped the ball (no pun intended). I'm glad her parents got involved and made a noise. Too many times ( Read more... ) -
Later Thoughts on Coloring the Slash Paradigm
Way back in 2006 when I was just cutting my teeth in the slash fiction genre, I penned a personal essay called Coloring the Slash Paradigm, or How a Black Woman Ended up Writing about White Guys, which was sort of an free-form expression about being a woman of color in a fandom that seemed to be absent of diversity (or so I thought, LOL). The ( Read more... ) -
Thoughts on Endless RaceFail
Call me naive, but as a middle-aged woman of color and a lifelong member of the geek/fandom generation, I often find myself wondering just what the hell is going on with so many writers/artists/designers/etc. committing endless, epic racefail these days. I mean, are these folks stuck on stupid or what? This isn't the 1800's where it didn't matter ( Read more... ) -
What Is UP With All The Hate?
I just felt the serious need to re-post this:
http://www.racialicious.com/2011/10/18/fandom-and-its-hatred-of-black-women-characters/
This is one of the huge reasons I stay far away from most fandoms. There is so much epic RaceFail going on and when the offenders get called out on it, they whine about not being "racist" (as if the only real racists ( Read more... ) -
The Vixenne's Top 30 People I'd Love to Do
It’s that time of the year again, sweetings, where The Vixenne lists her Top 30 People I’d Love to Do…or better yet, have them do bad things to me. It seems this list gets longer and longer but damn, there's just so many beautiful people in this world who need me to lust over them.
The names are in no particular order and all depends on mood and ( Read more... ) -
Moving all my fanfic
I decided to move all of my fanfic to another LJ which I'm in the process of updating. This one I want to use as for my non-fiction and essays. If you have friended me in the past and am interested in following me to my "new" home, drop me a line. I will be rejoining all of my groups as well, so it's like starting from the ground up. A lot of ( Read more... ) -
The Passing of a Metal Icon
The metal world has lost one of its most distinctive and powerful voices. Ronnie James Dio passed away today.
I know metal probably isn't "cool" anymore, but there are some of us who still love this music and continue to keep the faith.
I became a fan of Dio's after I first heard him on the album Heaven and Hell. The power that he had just ( Read more... ) -
My uncle - Larry Richard Reed
My uncle passed away this morning after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was one of the first black surfers in Southern California during the early sixties. This was at a time when a lot of the beaches were still segregated (yes, even Los Angeles lived under segregation back then). He was an iconoclast too (it runs in the family). He collected ( Read more... )