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If you're on Tumblr or follow comic book fandom you've probably heard about the push to have the next Spider-man be played by an African-American actor. In the same vein, Michelle Rodriguez was asked whether she was going to play a role on Green Lantern and had some controversial comments about minority actors "stealing" white superhero roles. It's not (quite) as bad as it sounds, but I still think she's wrong to dismiss the minorities-as-well-known-superheroes thing.
So I talked a bit about that as well as fem!lock, the Sherlock fandom practice of writing/drawing Sherlock Holmes as a woman. Basically, I looked at the ways having a minority actor play a previously-white character addresses some charges of racism, and the ways it doesn't go far enough.
Read it at my blog or below the cut.
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Comments welcome there or here. :-)
So I talked a bit about that as well as fem!lock, the Sherlock fandom practice of writing/drawing Sherlock Holmes as a woman. Basically, I looked at the ways having a minority actor play a previously-white character addresses some charges of racism, and the ways it doesn't go far enough.
Read it at my blog or below the cut.
( Read more... )
Comments welcome there or here. :-)
