yeloson: (Default)
[personal profile] yeloson posting in [community profile] gamers_of_color
Womanist Musings has a great post on the white normative in fantasy and romance, The Unbearable Whiteness of Being:

If one purpose of fantasy is providing escapism from a flawed world, it is absolutely necessary that everyone has tools to construct a fantasy world where they can be affirmed for everything they are, including their race. As we walk through a world where whiteness, thinness and cis-genderism is worshipped, for many of us, fantasizing about a better life where we are whiter, thinner, and more 'normal' is the insidious deepening of psychic wounds that eventually catch up with us.

Date: 2011-01-27 11:20 pm (UTC)
willow: Fork symbol from public sign. Text: Got Forks? (Racism: Got Forks?)
From: [personal profile] willow
Just nodding on the psychic wounds. Some days I feel like the bloody Fisher King.

Date: 2011-01-29 06:14 am (UTC)
kialio: (Default)
From: [personal profile] kialio
Thanks for posting this. The Purity Sue-ness of fantasy heroines has been percolating in my mind the past few months.

Profile

Gamers of Color

May 2012

S M T W T F S
  12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031  

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Jun. 14th, 2025 01:55 pm
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios