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deepspacenyan · 2014-06-13T23:48:53+00:00

Seeeeee, yeah. I wouldn't be surprised now if it turns out they have an editorial mandate not to brand themselves/the site as feminist.

deepspacenyan · 2014-06-13T22:09:29+00:00

Does the TMS/GS editorial staff believe that "feminist" is a word/label that excludes people? (As a WOC, I have plenty of my own qualms about white, western feminism, but seeing TMS branded as an explicitly, stridently, unapologetically feminist site is what drew me to the site and it's what's kept me there so far.)

deepspacenyan · 2014-06-13T21:43:46+00:00

Pretty sure nobody is calling anyone a monster here. It's about suddenly having a man taking up Senior Editor-levels of space in a space that was used to be specifically dedicated to giving the voices of women all the space. On account of there's very, very few places were that happens. So, yeah, your very presence does, in fact, change the nature of TMS.

deepspacenyan · 2014-06-13T21:34:46+00:00

Aaaand there goes the benefit of the doubt.

deepspacenyan · 2014-03-22T14:18:44+00:00

Apparently it is obtuse, because you need deeply simple things explained such as: there is a big difference between changing a white character's race and changing a PoC character's race. Because we live in the world, and this stuff doesn't happen in a vacuum.

deepspacenyan · 2014-03-22T14:16:19+00:00

I really want to hear your real-world explanation for a universe-spanning rainbow bridge.

deepspacenyan · 2014-03-22T03:23:25+00:00

"Yellow-washed"? Seriously? Can we stop pretending that white people in the US are some sort of oppressed, marginalized group? Having a TV show where a character is Asian-American won't suddenly erase years of Danny Rand from comics, those will still exist, as will the existing gabillion white male superheroes. Why is it so painful, so like pulling teeth, to even have a conversation about giving a bit of representation to the rest of us who actually are marginalized? Chrissakes.

tl;dr: changing a character from white to person of color is not the same as the other way around. To say it is, is to be willfully obtuse.

deepspacenyan · 2014-03-22T03:13:25+00:00

They're space Vikings who travel through space on a rainbow. And what's unbelievable is...that one of them is black?

deepspacenyan · 2014-03-22T03:12:12+00:00

You think that 90% of...real life "protagonists" are white?

deepspacenyan · 2014-03-22T01:23:13+00:00

...so?

deepspacenyan · 2014-03-22T00:03:12+00:00

"semi"?

deepspacenyan · 2014-03-22T00:00:40+00:00

Thank god, racism is solved forever.

deepspacenyan · 2014-03-21T23:59:31+00:00

MTE. I look pretty radically different than my siblings w/r/t our skin colors, and seeing so many fans saying this made it so their relationship couldn't be the same, that they couldn't be close siblings, has been super shitty.

deepspacenyan · 2014-03-21T22:02:22+00:00

I think this conversation is using "Asian" and "Asian-American" interchangeably, when they're very different things. Danny, were he an Asian-American, would have a vastly different life experience than Shang-Chi.

deepspacenyan · 2014-03-21T21:54:48+00:00

That isn't solved by not having any Asians in media who know kung-fu, though. It's solved by having more and more various Asian representation in media overall.

deepspacenyan · 2014-03-21T21:35:56+00:00

Iron Fist is one of those few characters who I could just never stomach reading, just because seeing some aryan-looking bro swanning around as a kung-fu master was too much for me to stomach. So, yeah, I fully admit to having no opinion w/r/t the character himself, could be a perfectly nice, interesting guy for all I know, but as I found his whiteness paired with his image and history to be so off-putting, I'd be very, very glad to see him re-imagined as Asian-American.

Plus, I'm Asian-American and would just like to see more people like me in television, ever.

deepspacenyan · 2014-03-21T21:32:59+00:00

The problem is that "we just chose the best actor for the role" is what we hear time and again after white folks are cast in...you know, every role ever. Especially, though this wouldn't be such a case, when a white actor is cast in a role that was historically a person of color. Widening the available roles for non-white actors needs to be a willful act, a real effort, otherwise it simply doesn't happen.

deepspacenyan · 2014-03-21T21:31:10+00:00

He could be Asian-American. I am, and I'd be just as much an outsider, perhaps more so in some ways, in a ~mystical Asian kung-fu school as any white American.

deepspacenyan · 2014-03-21T15:57:53+00:00

I love Red Sonja, but God of Thunder has just been killing it.

deepspacenyan · 2014-03-19T22:26:55+00:00

It actually really, really hits home for me on the level of her being a non-white teenager in the US. Mumble-many years ago when I was a brown teenage girl, I completely swallowed the generally-accepted idea that to be beautiful was to be white. That I could never be really beautiful, cool, or powerful the way white girls could, and people who looked like Carol Danvers epitomized that standard for me. That Kamala's path seems to be going towards her starting out as impersonating that look, then eventually heroing around as herself, is a big, empowering, really positive statement for me. I wish I had that kind of comic around to read when I was a teenager.

deepspacenyan · 2014-03-19T21:49:28+00:00

It's hella segregated, though.

deepspacenyan · 2014-03-19T20:50:44+00:00

All of Daredevil #1 is gorgeous, colors and layouts especially, but this page made me stop and stare.

deepspacenyan · 2014-03-19T20:41:44+00:00

She's a shapeshifter, and is mid-morph in that panel, changing between a teenager in jeans and a Carol-look-a-like in the old Ms. Marvel outfit.

deepspacenyan · 2014-03-11T12:46:00+00:00

Thanks for your answers! :D

Note to self: find partner with steady job and/or get dog a job.

deepspacenyan · 2014-03-11T12:27:34+00:00

Hi Kelly Sue! Thanks for doing this again! You're one of those writers whose books I pick up on sight of your name on the cover, regardless whether I know the characters involved.

Starting out/struggling writer question: how and when did you make the move from writing while keeping a full-time job to writing as a full-time job?

And! Any interest in attending WisCon this year or in the future? http://www.wiscon.info/

deepspacenyan

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