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WaveCon: Celebrating LGBTQ Fiction at Sea

Three new awesome queer ladies to add to our early attending author list!

Julie Cannon Carsen Taite D. Jackson Leigh

Since so many folks just found out about WaveCon in the last day and we’re still very eager to hear who else you’d all love to see attend, we’re extending the poll for a few more days, to 9am EDT on March 28.

if you’re tired of problematic, ableist neurotypicals, clap your hands.

Triggers, Roleplay, and You, or Sit Down and Shut Up.

Lately, I’ve noticed it… ableism.  “What the fuck, Adrien,” you say.  “I am a perfect, angelic flower face from outer space,” but I am here to tell you that you are not.  This is a simple no-nonsense, comprehensive guide to triggers and what happens when someone is triggered/you trigger them.

This guide speaks specifically to OOC reactions, but if you want to use it as a guide for IC, you could use it that way, too.

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And now, back to our regularly scheduled program.

Aka, my triumphant return to this community.

Let’s get down to business while I start working on the shit in my inbox.

If you’re afraid that the cast of Mulan won’t be entirely Chinese or at least Asian clap your hands

i don’t like being angry on this blog, i like this to be a nice safe space which is why i chose lola as my fc. however, recently i have noticed a disturbing trend in the rpc. racism. 

calling this anything but the blatant racism it is is disgusting; and as one attempting to ‘simplify’ or infantilise the problem by simply calling it “bullying”. one attempting to do that is alikening this situation to a playground disagreement, not a serious problem that affects our society in real ways today. 

from what i have seen: this has escalated from a situation where white people felt uncomfortable being denied from a safe space for people of colour. this was called “reverse racism”; and people of colour in that safe space were attacked. this is a very disturbing trend, as it highlights an underlying trend of being unable to be told ‘no’. much like the child whose mother will not buy it a new toy; members of the rpc have thrown tantrums. however, these tantrums reveal dangerous underlying mentalities. 

by why shouldn’t white people be allowed into safe spaces for people of colour? isn’t that really reverse racism? well, even ignoring the fact that reverse racism doesn’t exist, white people simply shouldn’t ask to be included into poc safe spaces, much like why straight people shouldn’t have a letter in the lgbt+ acronym and men are not allowed at women’s colleges. 

as i mentioned before, the trend of white people being unable to handle with being told ‘no’ shows a disturbing trend in our society and the way we raise our children. where does this sense of entitlement; this burning need to be oppressed come from? why do you feel entitled to someone else’s safe space? why do you feel the need to escalate this with clearly racist reactions, such as making talk blogs with racist names? how come when poc people explain how this is racism you say you’re being bullied?

these are hard questions, but they are ones you must ask yourself. whether this trend of escalation continues is hard to tell and immediately disturbing, but i hope the rpc community questions their actions and reactions. this is not simply ‘drama’ or ‘bullying’; this is a serious, real-world issue with serious real-world consequences.

The racism your characters might face depends on their race/ethnicity as well as where they’re from and how different they are from the average person from their area.

As example, there is a high Somali and Hmong population in my state (Colette) and they each face a slightly different brand of racism here than (non-immigrant) African Americans and Asian Americans even.

RACISM AND CLASS

Note: Anything I can provide comes from my western American perspective, though America imports its racism and anti-blackness across the world (mass media etc.) leading to a lot of the same hurdles and stereotypes following PoC wherever they go.

As noted, how racism affects individuals definitely varies by race (Latinx face different racism than a Black person) though there are similar struggles, especially in matters of classist-racism. So the topic in itself will need further exploration in regards to the race(s) you’re portraying.

From what I’ve observed, a Person of Color’s socioeconomic status has a great influence on the racism + discrimination faced. The “lower” in social standing a PoC is or perceived to be, the more racism intensifies, especially when they are less assimilated to the dominant culture.

For example: In upper, upper-middle class society particularly, depending on how PoC act + whether they’ve got what is known as “respectable” working for them (aka they mostly speak and dress in line to the dominant culture’s fashion and manner), these PoC are more accepted and made “exceptions” to a lot of the racism others of different classes and lifestyles will face. 

So usually; the more assimilated, the less blatant racism and faced.

Aka: “You’re not like the other Black people…”

Living in a suburban, mostly White upper-middle class town, I unintentionally had respectability going for me in terms of my behaviors being more “western neutral” and I was and am still treated pretty well by peers, strangers and authority; I rouse less of a threat.

Yet you take another Black person who acts, speaks or dresses a way associated with the working class and “Urban” Black culture, and they’re targets: seen as violent, ghetto, and less worthy from the get-go, dangerous on sight.

Any number of the above (dress, manner of speech, interests..) might mean receiving disrespectful looks & treatment by others, followed in stores, incarcerated, and stopped and questioned more often than Whites, just to brush the surface (See micro aggressions towards Black People for more there).

Now just because a PoC is presentable by those terms set by dominant (western) culture doesn’t mean they won’t deal with micro aggressions and racism as they are still subject to discrimination, prejudice, and ill-treatment just for being Black or Brown.

It’s just usually less often, a little “quieter” or even insidious.

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New works by N. K. Jemisin, Nnedi Okorafor, Daniel Jose Older, and more!

Edge of the Woods | Indiegogo campain

"Hello! My name is Jo, and I am a Taiwanese-American actor and filmmaker.

A few of my friends and I are working on a dystopic retelling of fairytales, featuring a Chicana Little Red, an Asian Robin (that’d be me), and a Puerto Rican Cinderella. Our mission with this film is to challenge the typical narrative allowed Queer Women of Color and to create representation for those of us who are never offered any. We’re committed to this mission both in front and behind the camera, and we’re currently running an indiegogo campaign to fund the film.” - Jo Chiang

EDGE OF THE WOODS is a dystopian fantasy short film that tells the story of four friends trying to make it out of the city and past the edge of the woods. Living under the constant threat of a police state, the friends must figure out how to endure a heavily militarized society in the city, and once they enter the woods, how to survive the monsters that lurk amongst the trees. Based off of the characters Little Red Riding Hood, Robin Hood, Cinderella, and Snow White, your childhood heroines are thrust into a much darker world and must get to grandma’s house without losing themselves along the way.

Starring: Raquel Chavez as Red, Jo Chiang as Robin, Korinne Winter as Ash and Shelley Farmer as Snow.

Check out and support this project at Indiegogo // facebook / youtube

New evidence that the legal immigration system discriminates against Latin Americans | Vox

[RP Icons] Ivy Chen

Actress name: Ivy Chen From: misc movie/series promos Icon count: 30

SAMPLES:

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Kimberley Drummond Gif Pack

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↳ Below are 148 gifs, made by facehelper for roleplaying purposes, of Kimberley Drummond, from her role as Taqua Mahdi, younger sister of the protagonist in the 2010 film Mooz-Lum. Kimberley is an American actress born in Jamaica. You MAY use these for just about whatever you want to do with them, but please do not include them in gif hunts--just include a link. Thanks!

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I decided to make this masterlist because I am sick of seeing admins say “There are no POC FC’s that I can put in my historical roleplay as I like to try and stay true to the period.”

Under the cut you will find a masterlist of POC Female Faceclaims who have played in Period TV Shows and/or Movies. There are around forty faceclaims, and I list for each their ethnicity, their age, and which period work(s) they have been in and the corresponding century for said work. If I have made any mistakes in this masterlist, please do let me know so I can fix it right away. As well, if you have any suggestions of faces I should add, send me a message!

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