[On being the minority in a fandom]
Thursday, 1 February 2024 08:09![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
roaming_kate23Because it’s Black History Month and tangentially related..thought it would be an excellent first post.
You may or may not know this but I am a person of color.Mixed race, actually.
In my almost 53 years of existence I have been a participant in quite a few fandoms, starting with Duran Duran when I was a pre=teen and moving on from there. The fandoms I have been in have varied, from music, to TV shows to movies. And so far it’s been interesting to say the least.
At the age of 13 I went to middle school in an area that was majority White/Hispanic.I didn’t see a lot of people who looked like me Add to that, as I have said that I was one of the few Duran Duran fans in my school.
Other fandoms(like Hannibal) have been much more diverse .Still some issues but as I mentioned before the people who were a issue in the fandom have left which made things better.
The James Bond fandom which I have talked about before..I can’t get a proper feel on how diverse(or not) that fandom is but..I definitely ran into racism(the worst kind).
The person in question was a moderator and he and I both posted on another message boards.At one point he threw his toys out of the pram and that is when I used my weapon:several, very racist private messages.Needless to say he was gone very quickly after that. You act like a racists piece of shit, there are definitely going to be consequences.
You may or may not know this but I am a person of color.Mixed race, actually.
In my almost 53 years of existence I have been a participant in quite a few fandoms, starting with Duran Duran when I was a pre=teen and moving on from there. The fandoms I have been in have varied, from music, to TV shows to movies. And so far it’s been interesting to say the least.
At the age of 13 I went to middle school in an area that was majority White/Hispanic.I didn’t see a lot of people who looked like me Add to that, as I have said that I was one of the few Duran Duran fans in my school.
Other fandoms(like Hannibal) have been much more diverse .Still some issues but as I mentioned before the people who were a issue in the fandom have left which made things better.
The James Bond fandom which I have talked about before..I can’t get a proper feel on how diverse(or not) that fandom is but..I definitely ran into racism(the worst kind).
The person in question was a moderator and he and I both posted on another message boards.At one point he threw his toys out of the pram and that is when I used my weapon:several, very racist private messages.Needless to say he was gone very quickly after that. You act like a racists piece of shit, there are definitely going to be consequences.
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