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Sep. 22nd, 2019 09:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blue_mouseCouple of years late to the game -- but WOW this blog post by Reni Eddo-Lodge "Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race" hits on like every painful moment I've had. Can't remember if I posted about it, so here it is again.
Reading the follow-up 2017 book Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race right now.
Keeping this blog and working on the fanfic has kinda made me catch up on the more recent discourses on race and stuff.
Also, at least part of the fanfic was me being like "Hey what if characters of color could just kinda hang out and shoot the breeze and not have to worry about white people getting upset or whatever." And then me realizing, "Oh wait. Wait, I love this. I want to do this more." That joy and catharsis did influence other work I've done since.
Side note, I recently learned that NK Jemisin writes award winning books and also writes fanfic.
Reading the follow-up 2017 book Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race right now.
Keeping this blog and working on the fanfic has kinda made me catch up on the more recent discourses on race and stuff.
Also, at least part of the fanfic was me being like "Hey what if characters of color could just kinda hang out and shoot the breeze and not have to worry about white people getting upset or whatever." And then me realizing, "Oh wait. Wait, I love this. I want to do this more." That joy and catharsis did influence other work I've done since.
Side note, I recently learned that NK Jemisin writes award winning books and also writes fanfic.
