Ambivalent Ambition

In seeing the massive disney debate…

note-a-bear:

satifice:

and knowing everything I do about video games, fantasy, and science fiction.

I shudder to think that for most white people, the idealized imaginary worlds they create are places where PoC don’t exist. Usually, neither do queers. Or trans people. Or marginalized people.

These are the worlds of their imaginations. These are the places they go to for entertainment and fun. This is how they escape from reality. Are they disappointed that their various genocides haven’t (yet) been 100% effective? Is this the reality that the need respite from?

This is all part of why I’m so committed to decolonizing my knowledge of scifi and fantasy and supplementing my genre reading with just as many, if not more POC authored works.

It’s a shame that even now, I think there’s only one or two currently running series of anthologies in both scifi and horror, and only one collection of post-colonial fantasy. I know of a few more one-offs, but mostly it’s hard to find these writers/works unless you have the time/ability to scour the internet looking through bibliographies for relevant materials.

This is also why I will never accept the argument that it’s just “escapist.” Nope, sorry, not for me. Not when your fantasy is merely a reflection of the logical consequence of continuing efforts at destroying POC and marginalized folks.

(Source: biyuti)