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[merrily]

So, Race Fail '09 continues (link to musesfool talking about it, not to any of the jerks themselves, in case you don't want to up their pageviews), and it makes me pissed off, but I'm not engaging with the perps, because that does not help.

Joanna Russ once wrote how she saw women taking a new approach to the men who said women couldn't write: the women turned their backs, and went on writing. I'm adopting the same thing here: when faced with a refusal by The Establishment to acknowledge and work on a problem, it's best to turn your back on TPTB, and work on the problem yourself.

So, in this case, I think what will help is for me to read more SF by people of colour. Oh flist, help me out with this! I've read most of Octavia Butler's work, and a smattering of Samuel Delaney -- who else should I pick up? (I'll take fantasy recommendations, too.)

I'm gonna go talk to current and past Bakka staffers, too, and see what they'll say. Will report back. But I want your suggestions! Please to be directing!

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[sheafrotherdon.livejournal.com]

Lots of good suggestions [here] (http://community.livejournal.com/50books_poc/profile) - I don't know SF very well as a genre (I'm not sure I've ever read any, and only a smattering of fantasy), but the folks at that comm have recs for every imaginable corner of bookdom.

[merrilily.livejournal.com]

Oh, awesome. Thank you!