Tag: racism

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SFWA Reacts to #BlackSpecFic finding that sci-fi publishing is racist

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LINK: Statement Regarding the Fireside Fiction Company Special Report

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From BlackGirlNerds.com…Mary Jane’s Hair Color: The Code for Racist Rhetoric

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Click here to read Jaime Broadnax’s article.

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ICYMI: NK Jemisin Explains the Rise of Racism in Fandom

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LINK: Jemisin was a guest of honor at the feminist science fiction convention Wiscon in 2014

N.K. Jemisin's The Fifth Season is nominated for Best Novel.

UPDATE 2016: Jemisin Is The First Black Author To Win The Hugo For Best Novel
Next WisCon: 41st convention May 26-29, 2017 LEARN MORE

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Sausage Party’s race problem

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LINK: The problem with the whole “equal opportunity offender” trope is that IRL shit is just not equal

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Also, there’s this: ‘Sausage Party’ Allegedly Forced Animators to Work Overtime for Free, Refused to Credit Artists

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Gaming companies’ casual ignorance of real-world race issues

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LINK: Co-opting the language of oppression

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Airbnb’s Racism Problem is Much Bigger Than a Few Racist Hosts

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Read all about it at Medium.com.

Though the racist hosts are a real problem too.

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Easy Level Life: A Video Game For #BlackLivesMatter

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Read about it at Killscreen.

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Exposing Racism in Publishing and Speculative Fiction

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LINK: #BlackSpecFic Study Shares Staggering Statistics

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Fighting Workplace Racism With Cosplay

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LINK: June J Rivas Reacted to Racist Workplace Dress Code in Best Possible Way

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Racist Profiling Neil deGrasse Tyson

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LINK: The most well-known astrophysicist of our time discusses a dozen times he’s been racially profiled

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