{"id":5220,"date":"2014-05-26T15:32:05","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T20:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=5220"},"modified":"2014-07-18T17:57:44","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T22:57:44","slug":"too-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2014\/05\/26\/too-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Too right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/nkjemisin.com\/2014\/05\/wiscon-38-guest-of-honor-speech\/\">N. K. Jemisin&#8217;s guest of honour speech at Wiscon<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nArm yourselves. Go to panels at Wiscon and claim the knowledge and language that will be your weapons. Go to sources of additional knowledge for fresh ammunition \u2014 histories and analyses of the genre by people who see beyond the status quo, our genre elders, new sources of knowledge like \u201crevisionist\u201d scholarship instead of the bullshit we all learned in school. Find support groups of like-minded souls; these are your comrades-in-arms, and you will need their strength. Don\u2019t try to do this alone. When you\u2019re injured, seek help; I\u2019ve got a great list of CBT therapists, for any of you in the New York area. Exercise to stay strong, if you can; defend what health you have, if you can\u2019t. And from here on, wherever you see bigotry in the genre? Attack it. Don\u2019t wait for it to come directly at you; attack it even if it\u2019s hitting another group. If you won\u2019t ride or die for anyone else, how can you expect them to ride or die for you? Understand that there are people in this genre who hate you, and who do not want you here, and who will hurt you if they can. Do not tolerate their intolerance. Don\u2019t be \u201cfair and balanced.\u201d Tell them they\u2019re unwelcome. Make them uncomfortable. Shout them down. Kick them out. Fucking fight.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N. K. Jemisin&#8217;s guest of honour speech at Wiscon: Arm yourselves. Go to panels at Wiscon and claim the knowledge and language that will be your weapons. Go to sources of additional knowledge for fresh ammunition \u2014 histories and analyses of the genre by people who see beyond the status quo, our genre elders, new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1818,22],"tags":[1949],"class_list":["post-5220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fandom-2","category-science-fiction","tag-wiscon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5221,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220\/revisions\/5221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}