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This is a not a proper post, just stuff I will probably forget about by the time I get around to making an actual post unless I post it now.
Stargate Universe makes Dollhouse and Stargate Atlantis look unproblematic and awesome.
There have been several discussions about issues at Worldcon.
This has been making me think about Aussiecon. This post for example brings up the culture clash between American and Australian/British etc conceptions of race and how this can cause problems with stuff like a "People of Colour Meet & Greet" (beyond the problems they already have with this sort of thing in America(*))
It also made me seriously ponder getting a mobility scooter for Aussiecon. They sound convenient, and walking is hard!
An example of the way it's better to discuss this sort of thing in advance rather than just hoping things go ok is the fact that the location for Femmeconne, the local feminist con, is apparently full of stairs because it simply didn't occur to the organisers to ask about accessibility :/ (I don't do stairs, not unless it's a single flight I walk up once)
(*)I remember reading some posts about how white people got offended by and kept trying to invade the POC safe space at Wiscon but I can't find them now, closest I came was Wiscon Squee and Fail or Why I Still Don't Love Cons. But in Australia there's going to be all that plus cultural differences about what terms to use for POC/non-white people etc, plus the fact that afaict we're more inclined to ignore race as an Issue all together. I forsee Drama.
Stargate Universe makes Dollhouse and Stargate Atlantis look unproblematic and awesome.
There have been several discussions about issues at Worldcon.
This has been making me think about Aussiecon. This post for example brings up the culture clash between American and Australian/British etc conceptions of race and how this can cause problems with stuff like a "People of Colour Meet & Greet" (beyond the problems they already have with this sort of thing in America(*))
It also made me seriously ponder getting a mobility scooter for Aussiecon. They sound convenient, and walking is hard!
An example of the way it's better to discuss this sort of thing in advance rather than just hoping things go ok is the fact that the location for Femmeconne, the local feminist con, is apparently full of stairs because it simply didn't occur to the organisers to ask about accessibility :/ (I don't do stairs, not unless it's a single flight I walk up once)
(*)I remember reading some posts about how white people got offended by and kept trying to invade the POC safe space at Wiscon but I can't find them now, closest I came was Wiscon Squee and Fail or Why I Still Don't Love Cons. But in Australia there's going to be all that plus cultural differences about what terms to use for POC/non-white people etc, plus the fact that afaict we're more inclined to ignore race as an Issue all together. I forsee Drama.
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AHAHAHAHA
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
could you imagine? it would be FAIL ALL OVER.
This is kind of why I wish 'People of Colour' wasn't so prevalent as a term. It's useful online, where we're talking to a lot of people from North America, but I think it colours (sorry) our thinking patterns/terminology that makes us incomprehensible when we want to start talking about these issues in our own (not-online) communities.
In conclusion: I think it would be a not good thing. (not the existence of such a safe space, just, you know, all the associated stuff mostly to do with the name, really) It would have to be very slyly constructed and worded.
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I'm currently pondering going overseas with a large group of friends and its just amazing how they are just NOT GETTING the fact that if I go with them, things like elevators or ground floor rooms aren't luxuries, they're fucking necessities if I am to go.
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