Have you looked at deadbrowalking? It's focused more on TV/movie fandoms, but the people there do discuss issues that I think relate to your points.
I'm white, so the world around me doesn't make me pay attention to these issues. I do try to remember to look around and try to see the privileges that I've got, but I'm sure I miss many of them. Something that helped with that came from an anthropology class I took several years ago-- The instructor found a long, detailed list that someone had put together of specific aspects of white privilege. Some of the students weren't pleased to be told that things like not being shadowed in a store by security or not having people assume that they couldn't speak English were privileges coming from the color of their skin. I still have the list somewhere in storage with the other handouts from that class.
At any rate, I was thinking that a similar list of what white privilege means for attending SF/fantasy conventions, for reading and writing SF/fantasy and so on might help those of us who have privilege to see it. A list like that isn't meant to address why things are the way they are or how to fix them but rather to give simple, concrete examples that define how things are. Maybe it's a bad idea... It'd certainly be a lot of work.
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Thu, Jun. 1st, 2006 08:38 pm (UTC)I'm white, so the world around me doesn't make me pay attention to these issues. I do try to remember to look around and try to see the privileges that I've got, but I'm sure I miss many of them. Something that helped with that came from an anthropology class I took several years ago-- The instructor found a long, detailed list that someone had put together of specific aspects of white privilege. Some of the students weren't pleased to be told that things like not being shadowed in a store by security or not having people assume that they couldn't speak English were privileges coming from the color of their skin. I still have the list somewhere in storage with the other handouts from that class.
At any rate, I was thinking that a similar list of what white privilege means for attending SF/fantasy conventions, for reading and writing SF/fantasy and so on might help those of us who have privilege to see it. A list like that isn't meant to address why things are the way they are or how to fix them but rather to give simple, concrete examples that define how things are. Maybe it's a bad idea... It'd certainly be a lot of work.