Continuum GoH Speech | Epiphany 2.0

N.K. Jemisin’s speech at Continuum is pretty damn amazing:

“And here’s the thing: women have been in SFF from the very beginning. We might not always have been visible, hidden away behind initials and masculine-sounding pseudonyms, quietly running the conventions at which men ran around pinching women’s bottoms, but we were there. And people of color have been in SFF from the very beginning, hiding behind the racial anonymity of names and pseudonyms — and sometimes forcibly prevented from publishing our work by well-meaning editors, lest SFF audiences be troubled by the sight of a brown person in the protagonist’s role.”

(Via Continuum GoH Speech | Epiphany 2.0.)