two black girls, a hispanic girl, and a jewish girl are four of the five who made the american olympic gymnastics team awesome is that
And one of the alternates, Ashton Locklear, is Native American, specifically she’s a member of the Lumbee Tribe.
The thing that so many (cis het white male) writers and viewers can’t comprehend is that inclusion isn’t automatically representation. If you can replace your gay character with a gay chair and the story continues exactly as it would have, then your inclusion is tokenistic and you can fuck right off.
actual representation should challenge social injustices, not just mimic them
#this is a good summary of what oitnb did wrong [via @sheg0]
THIS THIS OMG THIS
I’m never going to stop writing f/f. I joked on twitter that I wanted to be known as the Nora Roberts of f/f, and I was pretty serious. At the end of my life, I want to have written so much that there is something for everyone. Femme girls and dapper girls and bi girls and pan girls and trans girls and short girls and tall girls and curvy girls and smart girls and poor girls and depressed girls. I want to write them all, because they all deserve to have their stories told. Everyone deserves to be able to see themselves in a book character.
I Volunteer As Tribute: Writing the Book I Wish I’d Had As A Teen by Chelsea M. Cameron – GayYA.Org – Blogathon Day #4 (via bb8-and-rey)
New rule:
Show runners must kill two straight white men characters at an equal level of narrative importance (lead for a lead) for every woman, person of color, or queer person.
Four if they are more than one of those things.
Eight if they are all three.
When I wrote Love in the Time of Global Warming I wasn’t planning to make all four main characters LGBTQ but they just came out that way (no pun intended). One young reader said it bothered her that all four characters were LGBTQ. She said she thought at least one or two could have been straight. I’d imagine this is how LGBTQ kids feel like when they read books with all straight characters, over and over again.
Why I’ll Write About LGBTQ Characters Forever by Francesca Lia Block on GayYA.Org (via thegayya)
Dear heterosexual white cis male showrunners,
Claiming that after killing off a major queer female character you “understand the outrage and can relate to the pain,” is at best entitled, and at worst offensive.
Our pain isn’t yours. You can’t relate to shit when literally 94% of your Netflix, Hulu and HBO accounts reflect and cater to you… Try again.
It’s not representation if they’re being used as a joke or shock factor
It’s not representation if they’re being used as a joke or shock factor
SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE SCREENWRITERS IN THE BACK
gnellis 