: Monday, June 1, 2009
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fairestcat: Wiscon, Media Fandom and The Larger Fannish Conversation - Here's the thing: online media and fanfic fandom is a vibrant, active community within broader SF fandom. It's predominately female, strongly feminist-leaning in areas, and actively engages in discussions of race, gender, sexuality, privilege and oppression.[...]And yet, when it comes to having a voice in larger fandom, we're still the embarrassing cousin shuffled off into the corner (or the hotel lobby). Even at Wiscon, the feminist science fiction convention, we're mostly under the radar, carving out a tiny niche for ourselves. -- oliviacirce: Admitting Impediments: Post-WisCon Posts, Part I, or, That Post I Never Made About RaceFail'09 - As much as I think "book fans" and "media fans" are deeply problematic terms for what we're actually talking about, the division was there, between the old guard and the young upstarts, between the supposedly hidebound and the supposedly progressive. I'm not certain that we have the words to talk about this in the right way -- although we tried at WisCon -- but what hurt me most, after the horrified realization that people I knew and respected were saying and doing racist, thoughtless, disrespectful things, was the realization that my community was far more divided than I had ever wanted to know. -