Just had someone assert that the heart of sci-fi was white English-speaking men while boasting about a project to cover “all” of SF “from H.G. Wells to the MCU,” and my dude, do not confuse the contours of the ass your head is up with the horizons of the world.
Advice for literally all media critics: if you start from the premise that the stuff you grew up liking is representative of the world you will end up with work that supports white supremacism.
This is, obviously, not to knock writing about the media of your childhood/adolescence. That’s an amazingly fruitful patch of ground to work. But much of why it’s interesting is what you didn’t see at the time, and all the people you could have been instead.
Looking at this a few hours later it’s the amazing paucity of breadth involved in the phrase “from H.G. Wells to the MCU” that gets me.
Like, even if I want to stick to SF by white people that’s a narrow fucking range of vision.
Like, even if I want to stick to SF by white people that’s a narrow fucking range of vision.
“From J.G. Ballard to Star Trek: Discovery,” like, now you’re onto something.
“From H.P. Lovecraft to Justice League.”
“From Isaac Asimov to Melancholia.“
But all of this is nothing to what you get if you just break the white male frame.
“From Borges to Janelle Monae.”
“From H.P. Lovecraft to Justice League.”
“From Isaac Asimov to Melancholia.“
But all of this is nothing to what you get if you just break the white male frame.
“From Borges to Janelle Monae.”
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