dhobikikutti: earthen diya (yuletide)
Dhobi Ki Kutti ([personal profile] dhobikikutti) wrote in [community profile] dark_agenda2009-11-02 09:32 pm

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 wonderful [personal profile] 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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[personal profile] likeadeuce 2009-11-06 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Adding some comics with CoC -- "Agents of Atlas" - Jimmy Woo
"Iron Man" - James Rhodes
"Captain America" - Sam Wilson
"The Order" - James Wa, Milo Fields

And film, "The English Patient" - Kip

I'm sure I'll come up with others, but those are off the top of my head.
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[personal profile] likeadeuce 2009-11-06 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, and also, Derek Khanata for "Agents of Atlas."