They are not drawn to structured programming; their work at the computer is marked by a desire to play with the elements of the program, to move them around almost as though they were material elements -- the words in a sentence, the notes on a keyboard, the elements of a collage.

the computer holds the promise of catalyzing change, not only within computation but in our culture at large.

The computer has a theoretical vocation: to bring the philosophical down to earth.4

it has the ability to make the abstract concrete

One reason for this is that there haven’t been people of color in leadership roles at stock photography companies. We’re having these conversations now

When does our submission to measurement hit against something we must protect as “ours”?

shifts in our communication infrastructures have enabled large-scale attempts to reshape the very possibilities of social order in the interests of market functioning and commercial exploitation.

The answer is that surveillance capitalism threatens an aspect of our freedom so basic that we are not used to defending it.

An ephemeral platform like the Internet — though it may feel cathartic — is not always terribly productive.

140 characters isn’t enough to express a lifetime of experiences

It helps you understand what you think better. And I appreciate that about Twitter. It's a cacophony of voices. Even when you don't agree, you at least understand different perspectives. The medium itself sets that up.

that's a different way of empowering people.

Ferguson exists in a tradition of protest. But what is different about Ferguson, or what is important about Ferguson, is that the movement began with regular people.

The role has a hell of a lot of business value.

We can’t begin to move forward in any way if we aren’t having informed conversations about the impacts of white supremacy, cishetpatriarchy, capitalism, ableism, and settler colonialism on the lives of Black people, as well as Indigenous peoples, killed by police.

The death of Mike Brown was not the first nor will it be the last life claimed by police brutality. The uprising in Ferguson was one of the many boiling points we’ve seen Black communities arrive at after enduring endless violence from police vigilante acts. But now that race is being seen as a hot topic in the media, people from everywhere are weighing in.

though we are conditioned to believe that whiteness is the norm even in outer space

So when I watched the film for the second time, I did so imagining that all the stormtroopers were black. It not only made sense, it made the Force Awakens an even more intriguing and politically engaging movie. As white, Latin and black actors respectively,

hat I would hopewill begin to hap-pen in SF/F/H is that, in the same way that women writers and readers areclaiming a place in the fantastical genres, there will begin to be morediverse expressions of people’s lived experiences of race, culture, class,sexuality, social structures, and gender, and that more of those expres-sions will begin to come from outside the United States.

We chose the name Carl Brandon partly in tribute to Terryfor raising the issue of race in sci-fi fandom.

I don’t want our value to be in how uncommon weare. That’s a good strategy for keeping us on the outside and our numberslimited. I’d like to see people of color represented in strength at all levels ofthe industry: more editors, more publishers, more design people, moremarketing people, more graphic novelists, more comic book artists. I’d likeit to become perfectly commonplace that the instructors at spec-fic writ-ing workshops are 30 to 50 percent people of color (and representationjust as strong of working-class writers, queer writers, disabled writers,older writers, non-American writers; luckily, all these things overlap)

he dialect I use most in my writing is Trinidadian, because that’swhat I speak the most handily. I can do a smattering of Jamaican, espe-cially if I consult with my mother and grandmother, and I can throw in aword or two of Guyanese. Midnight Robberblends all three

However, in fantastical fiction, I can directly manipulate the meta-phorical structure of the story.

Not that I minded the review, which was positive in its own way,but I’m still struck sometimes by the difference between what I think I’vewritten and what readers get from the text, and sometimes I’d like toknow more.

I wanted stories that transcended the quotidian “lifesucks and then you die.” Call it escapism,

As to my definitionof spec-fic, I describe it as a set of literatures that examine the effects onhumans and human societies of the fact that we are toolmakers.

putting control of the grade firmly in students’ hands.

Here is an even simpler system with only four bundles of

. Then, at the end of the course, you can give the student(s) with the most tokens something desirable -- perhaps the chance to skip the final exam or a gift certificate for a pizza.

How do we resist this? (And resist this, I contend, we must.)

Our content and our data, shared publicly, become theirs to profit from.

the student is.

 something that they themselves can reflect upon, not simply grades and assignments that are locked away in a proprietary system controlled by the school.