#SFFReconciliation Whites have lost an enormous amount from oppressing or ignoring diversity, too; e.g., the voices we haven't read!

#SFFReconciliation Hairston: Those who speak the dominant dialect are perceived as smarter than those who code-switch among multiple ones!

#SFFReconciliation Jemisin writes about other planets and races that don't exist; people still thought Inheritance Trilogy was anti-white.

#SFFReconciliation Andrea Hairston's readers like her poetry about physics, but get mad about dialect; they'll take one jargon over another.

#SFFReconciliation If you're going to have a discussion about reconciliation, keep it framed on the issue, not white-privileged viewpoints.

#SFFReconciliation Hairston: People challenge me without actually checking their facts or my credentials. Who are we questioning, and why?

#SFFReconciliation Our identities are so deeply embedded in the things we're fans of, so criticisms of the work feel like personal attacks.

#SFFReconciliation: It's assumed that there were no people of color in medieval Europe, which justifies a lack of diversity in fantasy.

#SFFReconciliation Diversity is not zero-sum; valuing the contributions of black women doesn't take anything away from white men.

#SFFReconciliation: When the assumed default or neutral state is white, diversity or inclusion is framed as something extra.

#SFFReconciliation: There's a persistent hurdle that talking about race in SF/F is 'too complicated" or "too uncomfortable."

#SFFReconciliation Michi Trota: SF/F has always been more than Aasimov and Tolkien (straight, white, male) but that history is invisible.

#SFFReconciliation Eileen Gunn: Part of the problem is that white people are only reading white authors.

#SFFReconciliation Jemisin: SFF is dominated by white male voices. That's not an accident, or a law of nature.

#SFFReconciliation In her speech, @nkjemisin called for an active effort to build a science fiction/fantasy community that is inclusionary.

Continuum GoH Speech - Epiphany 2.0 Apologies for not posting this sooner, folks; my schedule...

#SFFReconciliation This panel was inspired by @nkjemison's speech at Continuum 2013: http://nkjemisin.com/2013/06/continuum-goh-speech/ #wiscon38

I'm tweeting a panel on Reconciliation in Sci Fi and Fantasty. #sffreconciliation #wiscon38