“I don’t understand why they just can’t accept it and get on with their lives.” There are so many interpretations of this statement. Is it about divorce, a breakup, losing a job or money, being unable to make peace with … Continue reading
This last year, two super hero movies have made an enormous splash: Wonder Woman and Black Panther. One of the major reasons for this is representation. Typically, super hero movies are not made with women or people of color (POC) … Continue reading
Welcome back to Las Anclas, a frontier town in the post-apocalyptic Wild West. In this perilous landscape, a schoolboy can create earthquakes, poisonous cloud vipers flock in the desert skies, and the beaches are stalked by giant mind-controlling lobsters.
Continue readingInvisible 2, an ebook anthology of personal essays on representation in SF/F edited by Jim C. Hines, has just been released. It includes an essay by BVC member Nancy Jane Moore and is adorned with a cover by Mark Ferrari, … Continue reading
Book View Cafe author Sherwood Smith co-wrote with PTSD and trauma therapist Rachel Manija Brown Stranger, book one of The Change series, a diversity-friendly dystopian adventure. Today, the Guardian focuses on this book, and how it makes a gay … Continue reading
A commenter on my last post brought up the diversity of belief between and betwixt the earth’s faiths. Indeed, diversity of belief exists even among members of the same religious community, even over something as basic as who God is. … Continue reading
