Ahahah from your comment at that other post: For a start, I'm wondering about how Australian fans (whose conception of race is, afaict, closer to the British one) will react if a "People of Colour Meet & Greet" is suggested for our con. Hmm.
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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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AHAHAHAHA
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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.