This Once And Future King

DENNIS R. UPKINS

Fighting to bring multiculturalism to YA and
speculative fiction.

I recently had the pleasure to sit down with the Twinjas for a no holds barred interview, where I share my thoughts on tackling bigotry in the industry, my Media Litmus Test, the Black Folks Being Awesome Facebook initiative, my next novel West of Sunset, and a host of other topics.

Fighting to bring multiculturalism to YA and
speculative fiction.

I recently had the pleasure to sit down with the Twinjas for a no holds barred interview, where I share my thoughts on tackling bigotry in the industry, my Media Litmus Test, my next novel West of Sunset, and a host of other topics.

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Black Girls Rock!!!!

African Heads of State All Go Nuts

Warren Ellis, congratulations.

Your racist rhetoric about Nelson Mandela and Africa still manages to be trump any sick garbage Santorum, Cheney, Limbaugh have spewed.

I Want To Be A Magical Girl Part II: Boys Will Be Girls Before Girls Can Be Girls

You know what’s the worst thing about being a trans girl who loves magical girls? It’s that they’ll sooner let boys be the heroes than ever consider you for it, and oh, you’ll fucking lap it up anyway.

The Sailor Starlights. Not talking about them though, but I do have some complicated feelings about them.

Although we’re still on the topic of magical girls, I’ll be going on a tangent and mentioning other things that aren’t magical girl. In fact, that’s how I’ll start this off.