Con Harassment Pushes All Of My Damn Buttons

Internets, N.K. Jemisin: great person, terrific writer, hosted best pajama party I've ever been to.

Also hella great culture critic. Here she is laying it down on SFF fandom not being nearly as egalitarian as it desperately wants to believe it is.

Things People Need To Understand, Issue 223.2

We have to shed this idea that SFF is somehow special. That it is perfect. That it is in any way better than the mainstream society from which it derives. It isn’t. And in fact, SFF’s manifest unwillingness to examine itself is one of the things that makes it worse than the mainstream.

I and people I care about keep getting accused of having some kind of agenda, whenever we express a demand for some kind of positive change. So OK. You know what it is? Lean close. Here’s the secret. Here’s the goal of the big shadow conspiracy. I’ll whisper.