Fantasy Worlds and Real World Commentary
Emperor Weishu Maorin Guangong Zhian, sixth of the Long Dynasty, of Yanjing, lives in a walled palace. He greets his guests in the Hall of Imperial Greeting; he has beautifully cultivated gardens of...
View ArticleTribe: One Heartbeat
You can be forgiven for not knowing what that means. I’ve read the flyer and looked at the facebook page, and I still don’t know. What I do know is that this is what the back of the flyer looks like:...
View ArticleMad Max: Appropriation Road
Here at No Award, we’re enjoying Mad Max: Fury Road. We’re inventing an AU (it’s called Mad Max: Fury Roadhouse, and it’s hilarious), we’re reading meta, we’re getting angry about world building on...
View ArticleThe Exotic Place as Other (and notes on cinder, by marissa meyer)
Futures and dystopias are frequently set in completely fabricated cities and worlds and planets, often but not always rising from the ashes of some war or climate catastrophe on Earth. There is...
View ArticleA Tour of Issues of Appropriation and Racism in Melbourne’s Restaurants
One day I was cycling around Melbourne and I saw a delivery motor bike in front of me. On its rear it said “you ling, we bling,” and I braked so fast you’d have thought I was in a cartoon. The...
View Articlethe gentrification of everything
Rose water: not just for brown people. Yes, that’s right, white people are still “discovering” our shit and claiming it as revolutionary. Quinoa. Goji berries. (Yoga. Jesus.) Like, share our stuff,...
View Articleon asian girls who go to cons
This being an account of Steph’s attendance at Contact (the 2016 Australian Natcon), and the adventures she found there. Be at the Con I wasn’t going to go to Contact this year, because $$$. But the...
View Articlecyberpunk, cultural appropriation, and the incomplete understanding of context
You know what’s amazing? Own voices cyberpunk and also own voices criticising cultural theft. Come with us, friends, as we eat more vegan schaedenfraude pie and talk about awesome things. Hey so the...
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