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u/RelationshipCreeper · 3 pointsr/SRSBusiness

The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

..with the caveat that it's really only almost fantasy. It has the tone, and there's one or two fantasy type elements here and there, but it's a real-world setting. That said, I loved this book. It's one of my favorites.

>Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister— dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú—a curse that has haunted Oscar’s family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA.

Ursula K. Le Guin is pretty reliable when it comes to mixing up PoCs into her books, so I'd search that. Bonus, she writes both science fiction and fantasy iirc so she might have something in between.

Isabel Allende -- she's technically a Latin American literary type author, but a lot of Latin American literature is uhhhh.... I think the term for it is "magical realism." They're typically set in South America, often the characters or themes relate to native populations, and I recall a secondary character in one book who was essentially a MtF transsexual.

Aha! I found it. It's Eva Luna.

>As the years pass and her imprudent nature sends Eva from household to household—from the home of a doctor famed for mummifying the dead to a colorful whorehouse and the care of a beautiful transsexual—it is Eva’s magical imagination that keeps her alive and fuels her ardent encounters with lovers of all kinds. And as her South American homeland teeters on the brink of political chaos, and Eva’s fate is intertwined with guerrilla fighters and revolutionaries, she will find her life’s calling—and the soul mate who will envelop her in a love entirely beyond her mystical inventions.

It has the same issue as Oscar Wao (actually for the same reason, probably): they're not "fantasy" in the sense of world-building and dragons, but "with fantastical and magical elements."

I also used to really like books by Sheri S Tepper, and a few of them had women's rights themes, but I can't remember any PoCs or non-cis main characters off the top of my head. She writes sci fi, but they were enough on the fantasy end of the spectrum that I could handle them. I'm not really a sci fi person.

I also dug up this Amazon list: "Multicultural Speculative Fiction".

Also, I found a "Multicultural Graphic Novels" list which probably isn't for you but looked too awesome to not mention.

Editing to add:

"The Privilege of the Sword": technically Young Adult, I think. The uncle is gay. Or maybe bi. I think he had orgies. Yeah, that would make him bi, I think.

Patricia Briggs: Mercy Thompson. This entire series. The protagonist is half native american, and she works in a garage. The entire series is pretty imaginative, although I can't remember that her heritage is really dealt with other than "and that's why she can turn into a coyote." Patricia Briggs has been one of my favorite writers pretty much since I was a teen. Before she got popular. I'm a hipster.

Another Amazon list: "Some Lesbian Fantasy and SF Favorites". I recognize a lot of the authors' names, but the only one I've read anything by is Tanya Huff. She's very good, and the rest that I recognize have high reviews and good reputations.

Another list along the same lines

u/TalkingRaccoon · 1 pointr/SRSBusiness

check this out, and this. I hope it explains things. Basically white people have historically used dressing up as minorities to ridicule and disempower them. "poking fun at stereotypes" is in line with "it's just a joke!". also the "poking fun" is always done by white people toward PoC/minority people (aka GSMs and women and classism.) The only thing I can think of right now where poking fun at stereotypes works is dave chappelles humor and the boondocks where black people analyze black culture through humor and satire.

u/TheCyborganizer · 4 pointsr/SRSBusiness

Most of the characters in The Windup Girl are Thai or Chinese.

The Left Hand of Darkness messes around with gender in interesting ways. (Also, Ursula K. Leguin is an all-around fantastic author.)

Robert Heinlein can be a controversial author, but many of his works had non-white protagonists. Manuel Garcia O'Kelly-Davis from The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress is multiracial, and Johnny Rico from Starship Troopers is Filipino, if I recall correctly.

Someone else in this thread recommended The Brief But Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao, and it's not exactly SFF (more in the vein of magical realism) but it is easily one of the best books I've ever read.

u/[deleted] · 7 pointsr/SRSBusiness

Ok, then, thank you :)

Amazon

and

Smashwords

The smashwords edition is going to be updated again, so I can try to get on their premium list (and eliminate the problem with my hyperlinked table of contents)

Thank you :)

u/beef_swellington · 0 pointsr/SRSBusiness

Woot stuff is usually only a little off the standard price. Here's the same laptop refurbished normally--$750. Not bad for 6 gig of ram, i7 quad proc, lots of storage, plus win7 home premium.

I never intended to compare ipad utility vs netbook utility, but we're starting to see things like the eeepad transformer that I honestly think has the potential to fill in as a non-ios "serious business" pad competitor. I bought up netbooks in response to your touting the air--a $1200 computer that can do just about as much as a $400 system of similar style (or significantly less than a $750 system of a more "portable computer" style).

u/LesSoldats · 14 pointsr/SRSBusiness

It's sad that this is even needed. We were just talking about this last night. "Liberal media" was a phrase used only by utter whackjobs until about 1990 — or rather, everyone knew they were utter whackjobs.

The media, until the scrapping of the Fairness Doctrine, attempted objectivity but generally wound up a bit on the conservative side. This was an inevitable result of their being corporate entities. See the book Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media for more info.

The Fairness Doctrine was not an "equal time" rule but required broadcasters to not only air controversial issues, but to air both or all sides of a controversial issue, in order to better inform and serve the public.

Heh. We used to think we could demand broadcasters use public airwaves to serve the public.

The FCC also prohibited any one corporation from owning too many media properties, especially too many media properties in a market. For instance, one corporation was not allowed to own the newspaper, radio, and television station in a market. These rules and other anti-monopoly rules were discarded, which is why so few gigantic media conglomerates control so many of the media outlets today, especially news media.

Anyway, with the ending of these rules in the late 1980s/early 1990s, we saw both the monopolization of media at a corporate level and the funding by corporate interests of completely one-sided media programming, beginning with AM radio offering hate talk like Rush Limbaugh. Before the Fairness Doctrine (and arguably, anti-monopoly rules) were scrapped, there was no way Limbaugh could have been broadcast without any opposing voices to provide balance. Even as it was, his show was subsidized by Clear Channel for years before it made any money, because the corporate goal was to get the regressive right wing word out more than the need to make a few bucks in a not-very-profitable time slot.

And Limbaugh began the "liberal media" lie. Remember, the bigger the lie and more often you repeat it, the more it is believed. And Clear Channel made sure Limbaugh had enough outlets and neverending opportunity to repeat it — he had 3 hours every weekday with no opposition! And today it's common knowledge that the corporate, monopolistic, gigantic media conglomerates are "liberal" and "biased."

Horse puckey, of course.

So thanks to Reagan, we lost FCC rules that protected the public airwaves and allowed them to be used for purely corporate and political and biased reasons.

u/clusterhug · 6 pointsr/SRSBusiness

If I were one of those dudes who died shielding his girlfriend I would be just fucking thrilled that not only did I die to protect a loved one, I also died so that somebody could use me to push her anti-feminist agenda.

u/devtesla · 1 pointr/SRSBusiness

The Air is a full powered notebook, you can be serious in comparing it with a netbook. Also, the eeepad transformer is basically the funniest thing ever, and tablet Android is a joke (almost as much as phone Android). It does a 1/4 of the things an iPad can do, and unless you are giving a stupid anti-apple bias, the iPad is already "serious business", espicually if you pair it with a keyboard case, even a cheap one.

u/preveyt · 5 pointsr/SRSBusiness

All my feminist friends have read a book called Cunt. I know nothing about it but the title has, for understandable reasons, stuck with me over time.