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This is actually a comment I dropped in veejane's LJ, on this post, reacting to RaceFail '09. My comment is mostly thinking out loud about the con I staff and programming, and may not make sense if you ahvne't read the post.

(RaceFail '09 timeline by rydra_wong here, and oyceter has a good summation of how this hurts everyone here.)

Con comm member here, who suggests a lot of the guests we invite. Although we've already had several of the participants in RaceFail '09 in previous years, so it's not like I'm going to have to fight really hard to keep the rest of the comm from agreeing to invite them. So my little gesture of solidarity in deciding to argue against inviting them is ... not particularly useful, unfortunately.

I am also trying to figure out how to get programming about these topics into the con, but I'm also afraid that it would be Round 23434324 of Fail, judging by the makeup of our con - there are, as is typical, very few PoC attending.*

*continuing to think* I could probably get programming about ablism onto the agenda easily, however, as we have a regular panelist who is in a wheelchair, very outspoken about accessibility issues, and who can be counted on to run a good panel.

I should probably stop thinking out loud here and go think about it in my own. LJ.


* But I have noticed a large uptick in the percentage of PoC attending the anime conventions I attend in the past year. This heartens me.