Those who are interested in the Science Fiction and Fantasy blogosphere can hardly have escaped the debates on race and gender that have been occurring regularly within the field in recent years. Ashok Banker, author of the Ramayana series takes a look at the discussion here.

Then again, to ask for American SFF to do away with its own all-American home-grown racism, as well as bigotry, sexism and even (gasp) cultural bias, might be asking for too much. After all there are clearly rifts even within the groups of PoC working within the SFF publishing field, with many American professionals being PoC but still either innocently naive and uninformed about other cultures, or too immersed in their own American identity to understand and appreciate the work of other cultures.

K. Tempest Bradford takes issue with some aspects of Banker’s post and comments (the comments on Banker’s blog were unfortunately closed). She replies here.