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Mar. 18th, 2015 07:14 amWe're crazy. Dark Matters? Nuts. We've decided to create a not-for-profit organization out of our biz to raise the profile of POC in geek culture. OMG. So we're about to create our biz plan and start working up a crowd-sourcing campaign, then we're going to research and apply for private and public grants.
It could be amazing.
Half the time I want to puke and think we're idiots and half the time I am ridiculously happy and or calm and have zero doubts.
I mean.
The other day, I got to interview this online writer. His family is from India, he grew up in South Africa, he wrote about a video game set in Africa and pointed out that despite being set IN AFRICA all the game characters were these white guys and when the review got published on this South African gaming magazine site, people flipped out. WHY DO YOU HAVE TO BRING RACE INTO A DISCUSSION ABOUT VIDEO GAMES?
Seriously?
So I interviewed him and we were talking about Chappie, a sci-fi movie by the same South African director who made the amazing Apartheid sci-fi film District 9. Only Chappie has this white Hip Hop group who are from South Africa teaching a robot to be like their white South African idea of what imaginary Black American Gangsta Life is. Based on, like, MTV or what what.
Do you know how many layers that discussion had?
LAYERS.
We were screaming on the Skype. SCREAMING. It was the best shit ever. At one point all we could both do was laugh.
THAT'S the kind of thing Dark Matters makes it possible to do. Have a that conversation.
You can just imagine how fucking amazing that is.
I have the best job in the universe. OMG.
And my partner- like, every day there are moments and experiences like that for both of us. And then we get to put them where other folks can find them.
BEST THING EVER.
I think we might be able to get away with doing this. Taking geek culture to task for its systemic white supremacy and showing off the important shit getting marginalized. Our brains are exploding.
It makes my palms sweaty like I'm dangling off a zillion story building.
I wonder if we're inviting annihilation.
*twirls*
It could be amazing.
Half the time I want to puke and think we're idiots and half the time I am ridiculously happy and or calm and have zero doubts.
I mean.
The other day, I got to interview this online writer. His family is from India, he grew up in South Africa, he wrote about a video game set in Africa and pointed out that despite being set IN AFRICA all the game characters were these white guys and when the review got published on this South African gaming magazine site, people flipped out. WHY DO YOU HAVE TO BRING RACE INTO A DISCUSSION ABOUT VIDEO GAMES?
Seriously?
So I interviewed him and we were talking about Chappie, a sci-fi movie by the same South African director who made the amazing Apartheid sci-fi film District 9. Only Chappie has this white Hip Hop group who are from South Africa teaching a robot to be like their white South African idea of what imaginary Black American Gangsta Life is. Based on, like, MTV or what what.
Do you know how many layers that discussion had?
LAYERS.
We were screaming on the Skype. SCREAMING. It was the best shit ever. At one point all we could both do was laugh.
THAT'S the kind of thing Dark Matters makes it possible to do. Have a that conversation.
You can just imagine how fucking amazing that is.
I have the best job in the universe. OMG.
And my partner- like, every day there are moments and experiences like that for both of us. And then we get to put them where other folks can find them.
BEST THING EVER.
I think we might be able to get away with doing this. Taking geek culture to task for its systemic white supremacy and showing off the important shit getting marginalized. Our brains are exploding.
It makes my palms sweaty like I'm dangling off a zillion story building.
I wonder if we're inviting annihilation.
*twirls*
