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Here we go again! Patricia C. Wrede's alt-history YA novel, where getting rid of those pesky indigenous North American peoples lets her do cool shit like write about mammoths. And white people. In any case, it's easier just to scrap them than to try and write them like people. Holy wow. See the comments in that first link for a reasonably heartening proportion of cluebat-wielding smart people to idiocy. Discussion being collated by

naraht here.

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deadbrowalking is putting out a call:

Let's make it really clear, people. If you identify as a POC/nonwhite person and you read or watch scifi or fantasy, give yourself a name check in this thread. I am particularly wanting shoutouts from people who do not live in the US and who have still managed to read genre fiction.

I'm tired of people trying to render us invisible unless they have been given a memo about our existences.

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ALSO. UM. which came first, the indians or the mammoths? (http://keeva.dreamwidth.org/6755.html) has just made my head EXPLODE. AGAIN. that comment i quoted? was apparently not even close to the first iteration of FAIL, oh dear GOD. talking about retroactive erasure- if there was some way to retroactively erase her books from my childhood so it doesn't fucking sting so much, i'd take it. D:

Oh my god, what. She's doing so many things at once there! Mostly I have this image of her sticking her fingers in her ears, happy in her own little world, a world gleefully founded upon fail!