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Guest Blogger Deleyna Marr: It's All About POV. The Need to Write Multicultural SciFi.

Guest Blogger Deleyna Marr: It's All About POV....

I do not believe I am a racist. And yet I can make thoughtless comments, be oblivious, be hurtful without realization or intent. Like when I offered a hairdrier to...

Guest Blogger Deleyna Marr: It's All About POV....

I do not believe I am a racist. And yet I can make thoughtless comments, be oblivious, be hurtful without realization or intent. Like when I offered a hairdrier to...

Kudos to Rick Riordan for Creating Multicultural Characters in the Kane Chronicles

Kudos to Rick Riordan for Creating Multicu...

My great friend Roschell Thybulle recommended that I read the Kane Chronicles. It's a wonderful YA series written by Rick Riordan the creator of Percy Jackson.  I have to give...

Kudos to Rick Riordan for Creating Multicu...

My great friend Roschell Thybulle recommended that I read the Kane Chronicles. It's a wonderful YA series written by Rick Riordan the creator of Percy Jackson.  I have to give...

Sci Fi Channel Had a Star Trek Marathon This Weekend: Feeling Nostalgic and Remembering My Sheroe Uhura

Sci Fi Channel Had a Star Trek Marathon This We...

This weekend I've been taking it down a notch. I totally needed to unwind. I was so excited to see that SciFi Channel replayed all my favorite movies. I totally...

Sci Fi Channel Had a Star Trek Marathon This We...

This weekend I've been taking it down a notch. I totally needed to unwind. I was so excited to see that SciFi Channel replayed all my favorite movies. I totally...

Black Women are Ugly, Fat and Masculine: A SciFi Writer's Response to the Psychology Today Blog

Black Women are Ugly, Fat and Masculine: A SciF...

When I was 16 years old, I remember riding the bus to school one morning. Two of my male classmates sat across from me. I was totally disinterested in them....

Black Women are Ugly, Fat and Masculine: A SciF...

When I was 16 years old, I remember riding the bus to school one morning. Two of my male classmates sat across from me. I was totally disinterested in them....

White Authors Fear Being Called a Racist: When Inclusion is Done Wrong

White Authors Fear Being Called a Racist: When ...

Some authors of Fantasy, Futuristic and Paranormal stories get race all wrong and the work that they produce is seen as racist.  I'm one of those people, though, who hold back...

White Authors Fear Being Called a Racist: When ...

Some authors of Fantasy, Futuristic and Paranormal stories get race all wrong and the work that they produce is seen as racist.  I'm one of those people, though, who hold back...

White Supremacy Did Exist in Thor: Loki as an Adolf Hitler Archetype

White Supremacy Did Exist in Thor: Loki as an A...

My husband and I finally got a chance to see Thor. It was everything that we thought it should be... Action, heart pumping, and Thor was a great hero.  Idris...

White Supremacy Did Exist in Thor: Loki as an A...

My husband and I finally got a chance to see Thor. It was everything that we thought it should be... Action, heart pumping, and Thor was a great hero.  Idris...