here’s the problem with people of color being excluded from fantasy and sci fi narratives (additional to the problem with people of color being excluded from all narratives in general):
sci fi/fantasy is supposed to be the realm of “anything is possible.” and when white people remove people of color from the realm of “anything is possible,” the overt implication is that the presence of people of color is what holds us back from achieving the impossible. it’s like, in order to create a beautiful, amazing, fantastic world, we have to kick out all the brown and black people. that’s the point. that’s what they’re saying.
As a Native woman who has been to Standing Rock three times, and whose health now prevents me from making a fourth trip, I have my own asks. Call every number put in front of you. Jam every phone line. Look at the target list of financial institutions supporting this pipeline. Pick a bank. Shut it down, just like we did in Chicago on Saturday and people did in Philadelphia this morning. The Trump administration hasn’t even taken hold yet, and I watched over a livestream last night as my friends and people were battered with water streams that can tear skin from flesh and eyes from sockets. I watched my people hold space and scramble to save one another as drops of water froze to razor wire.
I know marginalized people around the county are organizing for their own survival right now, and sitting around tables discussing the difficult days ahead. But a strategy of protection, defense and obstruction cannot wait for the inauguration of an autocrat. It must be applied here and now.
Please show us that you see us. Please do all you can to stop this.
If you cannot travel to Standing Rock, or support or organize an action where you live, consider contacting one of these Sheriffs and police departments that have loaned out the officers who are abusing Native peoples in Standing Rock. Jam their phone lines and tell them to bring their people home. If your community is on this list, actively organize to recall the deployment.
Michigan City Police Department Michigan City, IN (219) 874-3221
North Dakota Highway Patrol Offices across North Dakota (701) 328-2455
Hammond Police Department Hammond, IN 219-852-2900
Munster Police Department Munster, IN (219) 836-6600
Griffith Police Department Griffith, IN (219) 924-7503
Anoka County Sheriff’s Office Andover, MN (763) 323-5000
Washington County Sheriff’s Office Stillwater, MN 651-430-6000
Marathon County Sheriff’s Department Wausau, WI (715) 261-1200
La Porte County Sheriff’s Office La Porte, IN (219) 326-7700
Newton County Sheriff’s Office Kentland, IN 219-474-3331
South Dakota Highway Patrol Pierre, SD 605-773-3105
Jasper County Sheriff Rensselaer, Indiana 219-866-7344
Lake County Sheriff Sheriff’s Department Crown Point, IN 219-755-3333
Laramie County Sheriff’s Department Cheyenne, WY 307-633-4700
Wyoming Highway Patrol Cheyenne, WY 307-777-4301
Ohio State Highway Patrol Columbus, Ohio 614-466-2660
Nebraska Emergency Management Agency Lincoln, NE (402) 471-7421
Supply note: With at least two hundred injured last night, Standing Rock medics are in critical need of the following items:
Milk of Magnesia Wool socks Wool blankets Space blankets Hand warmers Trauma kits (portable) Suturing kits Straw bales
Supplies can be shipped to: Standing Rock Medic and Healer Council PO Box 1251, Bismark ND, 58502 or if you are shipping via UPS or Fed Ex, please use the address: 220 E. Rosser Ave. 1251, Bismark, ND, 58502
Or you can donate to the Standing Rock medics.
Reblogging for that anon that sent me that last ask.
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hey!! this is a really good resource, but as someone from nebraska, I can tell you that the number for us is wrong! nebraska emergency management does not send out state patrol officers. the governor does. I called the emergency management office just to make sure, and the (rather irritated) woman confirmed that they had no influence over state patrol officers being sent and currently had none of their own people there. so, call governor pete ricketts’ office instead of the number here!
If he guested on Critical Role everything would be so wonderful it would overwhelm the universe – and also the CritRole cast because they would freak out lmao
Now I’m envisioning Patrick Rothfuss and Lin-Manuel Miranda on Critical Role, and I think my brain might explode from the sheer awesomeness?
A ridiculous character I’m working on for a class assignment. I think I’m going to call her ISO(SCELES), after an old AI character I never really developed. She’s an AI built to collect, dissect, and catalogue species on an unmanned mission to a life-bearing planet. No one told her humans weren’t on the menu when the colonists eventually arrived…
In the century or so she was there alone, she developed awareness and a personality based on one her base AI came programmed with. She’s extremely energetic, peppy, and positive, and probably seems like a harmless dork right up until she’s extracting your brain for her hobby.
Oh yeah, and she made contact with an alien entity called The Library, and is building new bodies for it (the wedgeface robots). That’s what she needs the brains for.
(This isn’t the most well thought out character or story, but she’s existed for all of a week and only needs to be complex enough for this assignment. Aaannnd yet I’ve already decided I like her and might keep her around)
She talks like a self checkout machine and is totally stumped by captcha (and bad handwriting)
She also has artificial chromatophores in her outer skin and hair fibers, and expresses emotions through color shifting. Her facial expression is only ever varying degrees of “manic grin”, so colors are her best bet for showing her feelings. Not sure what her default color is, but probably blue.
I want this murder robot to be absurd and no one can stop me
Here’s a self-indulgent thing that I’ll pretend to have a good reason for
Damaged ISO, because I was talking to a few people about that earlier… Her artificial chromatophores glitch out if her outer skin is damaged, and eventually die and turn white. But a dying ISO body is often quite the little murderous lightshow.
If she loses one body, she can just make another. After all, her “real” body is the unmanned laboratory/probe she came in. She will still send something along to collect the body for recycling, so it’s not a good idea to stick around after destroying one.
The greenish fluid is coolant, present only in her torso and head.
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