And, once again, I’m restarting my more serious blog.
“Restarting” may not be the best term, seeing as how there hasn’t been much up here… pretty much ever. But I’m planning on importing some of the LJ/DW posts I’ve made that deserve to be archived elsewhere, and going from there. Now that JournalPress seems to be working for me, I’ll be crossposting from here on out, so if you already follow me on LiveJournal or Dreamwidth, there’s going to be nothing new for you here. (Though you’re more than welcome to skip over to the version of a post you like that lives on this site and share/+1/whatever it, using the handy links at the bottom of each post. It makes me happy when people share stuff I’ve written, and so I try to make that easy to do.)
For those who have no idea who I am, here’s a short intro: I’m a thirty year old geek who’s a member of multiple marginalized groups. (Latina, mentally ill, fat, Pagan, queer…) Sometimes I write about my life. Sometimes I write about the really shitty representations of people like me in shows/books/comics I love. Sometimes I’m angry, and sometimes I squee in incoherent fannish glee.
I believe very strongly in the power of stories to change the world. I believe sometimes, we soak up parts of stories that help marginalize people who are different than we are, and we reproduce them without thinking of the unfortunate implications. I believe the best way to deal with stories that propagate hurtful stereotypes is not to censor them, but to point out that there’s something wrong with this picture, offer alternative viewpoints, and find better stories. Not everyone has it in them to be a storyteller, and so the “If you don’t like it, just make your own movie/write your own book!” response is a particularly odious example of smug asshattery, but we can still share and rejoice in fiction done right. We can also still love works that make us grit our teeth and ignore the subtle racism/sexism/homophobia, because they’ve still got good stories that were just tragically flawed in execution. The world’s complicated like that.
Or here, have an even shorter intros: Stories interest me. The implications of stories interest me. Sometimes, I like to poke the stories with sticks and see what happens.
