I had a short email exchange with Mal today, and one of the things we discussed was the leaders of the various factions... and how so many of them reflect the makeup of North American SF fandom (read: predominately white and male). I'm thinking it's time to identify some of the faction leaders who aren't male and white.
Obviously, Queen Serenity I of the Senshi is a female. And since I'm the person who volunteered to write her character page, I get to decide what else she is or isn't... so http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?titl ... nity_I.png]here she is. (Better image to follow once I'm rested and can fix the problems that don't show up in that small image.)
I also suggested to Mal that maybe the Dandelions' current leader (read: the guy who gets stuck with the paperwork while everyone else writes new music) is a Cuban-descended street musician from Miami... or Havana. (But I like Cuban jazz, so that may be colouring my perceptions here.) And Mal suggested http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Bjo_Trimble]a particular BNF as the first leader of the Trekkies.
So, given that it's highly unlikely (while still remotely possible) that the Warsies, Wizards or Browncoats would pick a non-white leader just because of their source fandoms, and the already-identified faction leaders are already identified (mostly as being white males), who are the as-yet-unidentified faction leaders (other than Serenity I, who I'm still intending to do the writeup for)? Submissions are welcome...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Obviously, Queen Serenity I of the Senshi is a female. And since I'm the person who volunteered to write her character page, I get to decide what else she is or isn't... so http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?titl ... nity_I.png]here she is. (Better image to follow once I'm rested and can fix the problems that don't show up in that small image.)
I also suggested to Mal that maybe the Dandelions' current leader (read: the guy who gets stuck with the paperwork while everyone else writes new music) is a Cuban-descended street musician from Miami... or Havana. (But I like Cuban jazz, so that may be colouring my perceptions here.) And Mal suggested http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Bjo_Trimble]a particular BNF as the first leader of the Trekkies.
So, given that it's highly unlikely (while still remotely possible) that the Warsies, Wizards or Browncoats would pick a non-white leader just because of their source fandoms, and the already-identified faction leaders are already identified (mostly as being white males), who are the as-yet-unidentified faction leaders (other than Serenity I, who I'm still intending to do the writeup for)? Submissions are welcome...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012