"In conversations about ‘writing about the other’ people always want to know how to depict other..."

“In conversations about ‘writing about the other’ people always want to know how to depict other races without just making them browned version of white characters. Start by looking at power. What is your character’s relationship to institutional power? To the police? The education system? The media? Are they historical beings, connected to a community, or do they just drift in space and time? Our relationships to power don’t define us, but they’re a part of our story and, more often than not, excluded from representations in literature.”

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Another World Waits: Towards an Anti-Oppressive SFF
by Daniel José Older on Dec 3, 2013
Apex Magazine, issue 55

and it’s never a bad time to shout out to Writing the Other, book and workshop!

(via nivair)