Writing The Other Shouts-Outs – June 2010

At WisCon this year I participated in a panel called Writing the Other: Shout-Outs wherein the panelists named fictional properties they liked where the writers(s) wrote characters that were “other” to them. Not just white people writing POC, but also able-bodied people writing disabled characters, men writing women, etc. We had a great time on the panel giving each other recs and getting them from the audience. And I thought this would make a good regular post here on the ABW.

Each month we’ll have an open thread where people can list and discuss books, short stories, TV, movies, and comics where the writer(s) successfully wrote the Other. List as many as you like (just watch out for adding too many links, else the spam catcher grab thee!) and tell us why you think that media is a great example of writing the other.

To get started, here are some of the books and shows mentioned at the panel. Big thanks to coraa for posting this list on her journal.

• Richard Morgan’s Black Man, published in the US as Thirteen
• Peter Straub, The Hellfire Club
• Gwyneth Jones, Life
• Tananarive Du, The Good House
• Tobias Buckell, “In The Heart of Kalikuata”
• Tamora Pierce, Circle of Magic and The Circle Opens, Daja and Briar
• Alexander McCall Smith, Ladies’ #1 Detective Agency (and the TV show)
• Nnedi Okorafor, She Who Fears Death
• “The Pirates of Dark Water” (TV)
• “The Closer” (TV)
• “Dexter” (TV) (there was some lively discussion on this one)
• “Leverage” (TV)
• Catherynne M. Valente, The Orphan’s Tales
• “Gargoyles” (TV)
• Adrian Drake, Null Void
• Okasha Skat’si and Susanne M. Beck, The Growing
• Karin Lowachee, Gaslight Dogs
• China Mieville, Un Lun Dun
• Robert V. S. Redick, Rats and the Ruling Sea, published in the US as The Ruling Sea
• Justina Robson, “Silver Screen”
• Jon Muller and Krista Brennan, Virtuoso
• Maureen McHugh, China Mountain Zhang
• Kathryn Erskine, Mockingbird
• Ursula LeGuin, Powers series
• Elizabeth Moon, Remnant Population and Speed of Dark
• “Avatar: The Last Airbender” (TV) (not, as many people emphatically pointed out, the movie)
• “She-Ra” (TV)
• “Lincoln Heights” (TV)
• Samuel Delany, Babel-17
• Mike Shepherd, Kris Longknife
• Shannon and Dean Hale, Rapunzel’s Revenge

Leave your shout-outs in the comments or co-sign any of these.

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Writing The Other Shouts-Outs – June 2010