What am I saying with all this? I am saying that this black girl was there, and can prove it. This black girl was there with boys and a few girls who were also not white. We didn’t go to your conventions, but we were there.

We already knew that in general genre was vague on the existence of non-whites as part of basic reality to begin with, because we read your works and watched your movies and television shows, and yet we were there. We just didn’t give a fuck about you and your definition of “fandom” because we did not then and do not now need your “fandom” to roll. For the most part, back then we didn’t realize your “fandom” existed. Once we became aware of your “fandom”? We decided to for the most part ignore it because - do believe me on this - interaction with your “fandom” is not easy. It is in many ways a multi-front war. So we take the juicy bits we like to interact with and roll our eyes at the rest of it.

What I worry about is the Not White Like You geek younglings to come. I don’t want them to have to go through what I went through. I despise the existence of the same tired calcified attitudes that are on display in the stuff from elsewhere that launched this post, and the eternally wearying defense of the same. That crap existed when I was a kid, it existed before I was born, it sadly continues into this very day. I’ve said this before several times, but one of my prime motivations for setting up this internet(s) port was to in some way let future not white tribal members who stumble across this place know that They Are Not Alone.

Time will take care of this. With time they will die, because they have no choice in the matter. With time, their white-centered, provincial attitudes about what counts as Geekdom will die with them. With time, a more vibrant, diverse reality-based Tribe will emerge to take your place. It’s happening already. Slowly, but it is coming.

I look forward to the coming extinction.

Fuck all you mothafuckas.