I didn’t actually know that racist fanfic was a thing...

So? How exactly does the skin melanin content of the Chief of Police influence racism and civil rights violations within the department?

There are a LOT of people who identify as Pequot, today. And there are a lot of Pequot people who are interested in maintaining their culture, and who are actively doing so. To suggest they have no culture seems rather insulting and speaks nothing to persistence and really highlights issues of visibility in the 21st…

This is how a nation whitewashes its crimes.

I have a FB Friend from Indonesia, and in the course of one of our Messenger chats, I made a passing reference to the United States’ genocide of Native Americans. She had no idea that there were indigenous people in North America before settlers came from Europe, and also no idea that white people had slaughtered them…

That is a good point, and also a good example of how white historians or anthropologists substitute their own concepts in the narratives they create about indigenous groups. Whenever you try to argue with someone about the genocide of these peoples one of the main counterarguments is “but disease killed most of them”.…

Right? In IT we call this GIGO - garbage in, garbage out. It usually applies to data, but books count as data, so .... SAME

I’ll just add that the narrative of “extinction” is something many native people today continue to struggle with. Populations that continue to identify as Pequot or Taino, among others, have had to continually resist the notion that they are “extinct” when in fact their ancestors may have intermarried with other…

Ugh ugh ugh... People like this should be forced to read Black Elk Speaks and Lakota Woman, or at minimum watch Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, if they don’t want to invest the time in reading. It was a straight-up massacre - no ifs, ands, or [especially] buts. It was a heinous crime against humanity, that the US never…

they were always just as bad, but kept a lower profile

Okay, I’ll admit that when I read the headline, I was a bit shrugging thiss of as while not ideal, I don’t think there is something inherently wrong with having a romanctic character struggling with the trauma of having been a participant in something so horrible.

That’s a lot to unpack, so let me say the only thing that comes to mind: holy fuck.

Isn’t Phoenix in Maricopa County, Sheriff Arpaio’s old stomping ground? Looks like the PD is carrying on his “proud” tradition.

I’ve been out of the field for a few years, but IIRC the Vivians are judged only by other romance authors. Not readers, and god forbid, not critics. Other romance authors. So the judging pool is pretty insular, and it’s also made up of people who HAVE to judge because the only way you can be considered for a Vivian is …

It’s not much of a secret that the largest police forces are the most corrupt, however, I can’t help but suspect that the corruption is by design - as if someone is intentionally making these unstable, psychopathic people more powerful let alone employable with so much power at their disposal and set them loose on the…

Seconded, how was this shit published and HOW was it granted an award to even rescind??

Not just Karen, but Karen W(h)itemeyer.

Garbage people and garbage books. 

As a person who is part Native American I am horrified that At Love’s Command was even published. Limited props, if there is such a thing, to RWA for rescinding the award!! Baby steps, right?

The fact that the author’s name is Karen really is the chef’s kiss in all of this racist mess.