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superheroesincolor:

How Long ‘til Black Future Month?: Stories (2018)

N. K. Jemisin is one of the most powerful and acclaimed speculative fiction authors of our time. In the first collection of her evocative short fiction, Jemisin equally challenges and delights readers with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption.

Dragons and hateful spirits haunt the flooded streets of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In a parallel universe, a utopian society watches our world, trying to learn from our mistakes. A black mother in the Jim Crow South must save her daughter from a fey offering impossible promises. And in the Hugo award-nominated short story “The City Born Great,” a young street kid fights to give birth to an old metropolis’s soul.

by N. K. Jemisin

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N. K. Jemisin is the first author in the genre’s history to win three consecutive Best Novel Hugo Awards, all for her Broken Earth trilogy. Her work has also won the Nebula, Locus, and Goodreads Choice Awards. She is currently a reviewer for the New York Times Book Review, and she has been an instructor for the Clarion and Clarion West writing workshops. In her spare time she is a gamer and gardener, and she is also single-handedly responsible for saving the world from King Ozzymandias, her dangerously intelligent ginger cat, and his phenomenally destructive sidekick Magpie.

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Bitter Bish Nitpick:

I saw this post and it reminded me of an issue I have. Why do they keep having him say stuff that would be poignant…if one didn’t think about it for half a second?

“Way past the point of asking permission” … They had that come out of Steve’s mouth. Steve’s! When did he ever ask permission and listen when someone told him NO in the first place? He’s the character who has always done whatever he wanted regardless of– *sigh*. Wasn’t disregarding being told no his whole origin story?! The idea of him asking permission would be a formality at best…🤔

And even if we’re going with the idea that he’s done faking that formality, CW kills that thought. CW was literally ‘we want this team with no jurisdiction to ask permission before they go to other countries to do shit’ and Steve was like ‘Nah’.

…“way past the point”…😑 like he was ever at the damn point. Lawd.

(That “we don’t trade lives” is another line that bugged and then there was that entire bs letter… Still can’t figure out how the writers thought that was even a half decent apology. Like ‘I’m sorry but i hope you understand why I did what i did’ is not an apology at. all.)

profeminist:

UPDATE TO TRANSGENDER STYLE GUIDE: AVOIDING INVALIDATING LANGUAGE TRAPS

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Title: The Radical Copyeditor’s Style Guide for Writing About Transgender People: 2.8-2.11: Avoiding Invalidating Language Traps

Speech bubbles contrast the following phrases under the headings “Invalidating language” versus “Validating language”: “Women and trans women” versus “Cis and trans women”; “Students who consider themselves ‘non-binary’” versus “Non-binary students”; “Zed, who identifies as agender” versus “Zed is agender”; “her secret was exposed” versus “her history was publicized”; “closeted,” “stealth,” and “passes” versus “private” and “nondisclosure”; and “an out trans man” versus “openly trans” and “public.”

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suddenlykats:

I’ve been doing this thing lately where if I see a post that is obviously going to have discourse in the notes, I go in and start blocking everyone who’s clearly arguing in bad faith. and you wanna know something interesting? I keep seeing less and less.

“well duh, Kat,” you say, “obviously if you’re blocking people you’re not going to see their responses.” yeah I know. but this is between different posts. like I blocked a bunch of sockpuppet troll accounts on one post, and then when I looked through the notes of another equally divisive post about the same subject, there were far fewer. there were also replies from people addressing bad faith replies, even though I couldn’t see said bad faith replies in the notes–which I’m assuming means I already had the posters blocked.

kinda makes me think that it’s just the same noisy shitheads yelling on every post, and if we all block them, they won’t have a voice anymore. so echo chamber be damned, I’m just gonna keep on blocking.

jamaicanblackcastoroil:

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thatpettyblackgirl:

They know exactly what that flag represents.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/confederate-flag-europe-trump-poland_us_5968a317e4b017418626ab5e

Yup they do this in Sweden too,and brazil

Brazil was a safe haven for confederates after the war.

I wonder what all those “heritage not hate” people are going to say to these people are replacing the swastika with a confederate flag. Kinda turns that myth upside down huh.