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dark_agenda2009-11-02 09:32 pm
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Yuletide 2009 Fandoms with White / Western / Other Source Creators
Note: In my personal hierarchy of diversity, it is more important to support chromatic creators, and sources made by the people they represent. In addition, many White and Western sources come with deeply problematic racial and cultural depictions of their characters, and yet they end up being more popular and disseminated than more authentic representations.
That said, many of us love sources that are problematic for a variety of reasons, and as fans, one of the wonderful things we can do is produce fic that critiques, challenges and complicates the flaws in the source.
So if you do decide to write for these (and seriously, do it in addition to rather than instead of writing for the first list), please make sure you hunt for critique of the source, and write something that does not add to the problems of misrepresentation.
List of Chromatic Characters in White/Western/Other Created Yuletide 2009 Fandoms
PLEASE USE THIS FORM TO ADD INFORMATION TO THIS LIST (Made by the wonderfulthuviaptarth)
Links to posts that comment on the source's racial and cultural representations are especially needed. We'll be editing this post continually to keep up with new information as we get it, so corrections, explanations, and counter-opinions to any commentary about the source is most welcome.
That said, many of us love sources that are problematic for a variety of reasons, and as fans, one of the wonderful things we can do is produce fic that critiques, challenges and complicates the flaws in the source.
So if you do decide to write for these (and seriously, do it in addition to rather than instead of writing for the first list), please make sure you hunt for critique of the source, and write something that does not add to the problems of misrepresentation.
List of Chromatic Characters in White/Western/Other Created Yuletide 2009 Fandoms
PLEASE USE THIS FORM TO ADD INFORMATION TO THIS LIST (Made by the wonderful
thuviaptarth)Links to posts that comment on the source's racial and cultural representations are especially needed. We'll be editing this post continually to keep up with new information as we get it, so corrections, explanations, and counter-opinions to any commentary about the source is most welcome.
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(Supporting characters of colour include Knives Chau, Matthew Patel, Tamara Chen. Chinese-Canadian Knives Chau may be seen by some as a problematic stereotype. The comic as a whole plays with stereotypes and genre tropes, so it's difficult at times to tell reflection from criticism.)Preview
Slight correction: Bryan Lee O'Malley is half-white, half-Korean, and mostly seems to define himself as "half-Asian" in interviews, etc. So he might need to be moved to the other list.
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