Bulletin: This Is What DC Refuses To Do
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Back in August I mentioned a project being done, one named:
I was hesitant then to promote it outside of emails and twitter dm's because it was so wonderful to me. I did not want to see some white jerkarse from DC slap a cease & desist on it and try and or succeed in getting it pulled down.
The Legion Of Superheroes as multiethnic and diverse. Truly reflecting the complexity that is human physical appearance on Earth with hints of sociological diversity as well.
But the project is over now. It is three issues and a coda showing what could have been had DC not been filled with individuals who put more stock in tokenism and propagating white supremacy and authority above even good storytelling.
Oh, they won't describe themselves as such, but a future where everyone from humans to very humanoid aliens are all white? And their general strain of only light skinned minorities have even bit parts to play? That colourism? The combination of the two? That's white supremacy plain and simple. That's the sociological disease that says only white people have been, are and will ever be important.
Odditycollector, in her social experiment (one of the few times the phrase means something positive on the internet) has thoroughly shamed DC.
And thoroughly delighted me.
Issue #1, Issue #2, Issue 3 & #Coda.
A space opera odyssey I could invest in, if DC had any interest in telling stories outside the echo chamber of white (& male) power.
xposted: Seeking Avalon
Labels: special bulletin, Year:2009