By Kiona N. Smith European soldiers and civilians poured into the Levant in the 12th and 13th centuries, often killing or displacing local Muslim populations and establishing their own settlements in an effort to seize control of sites sacred to three major religious groups. But in a new study, DNA from the skeletons of nine […]
Read More DNA from Medieval Crusader Skeletons Shows Surprising DiversityBy Mod Colette We discussed the issues describing People of Color by means of food in Part I of this guide, which brought rise to even more questions, mostly along the lines of “So, if food’s not an option, what canI use?” Well, I was just getting to that! This final portion focuses on describing skin tone, with […]
Read More Writing with Colour: Description Guide for Skin TonesOriginally posted on POCGamer:
So, no names, no packdrill. This is one of those rare personal experience posts I do for POCGamer, concerning a recent experience and the realities of being Black and a content creator. First off, some background. I’m a member of a local writer’s critique group, and full disclosure, I’ve been pretty…
By Adam Fitzgerald Encountering Samuel R. Delany’s work, for me at least, can be described in two phases (more like paroxysms): the first is being so overcome by the true presence of a genius or polymath writer, the endless fertility and ease through which he has made each genre indelibly his own (science fiction, literary […]
Read More Don’t Romanticize Science Fiction: An Interview with Samuel Delany
