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When it comes to matters of diversity and inclusion in the pop culture space be it television, film, or even comics one issue keeps coming up: Should preexisting characters be reimagined as a different gender or race, or is it simply better for creatives to work on developing new characters that can better represent these different experiences?
Well, today, Comic-Con@Home featured three separate panels discussing as much:
the API & AAPI Creators: The Original Comics Pioneers! panel; the Native Americans in Pop Culture with Taboo (from the Black Eyed Peas) panel; and the
Afrofuturism, Funk, and the Black Imagination panel.
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Science Fiction & Fantasy
by Arley Sorg
Sheree Renée Thomas was born in Memphis, TN. The eldest child of an air force vet, she grew up on various military bases. She eventually moved to New York, where she lived for twenty years before returning to live in Memphis. She worked at genre bookstore Forbidden Planet, as well as working full-time in publishing while freelancing on the side, doing everything from writing jacket copy to proofreading and copyediting to editing.
In 2000, Time Warner published Thomas’ groundbreaking anthology
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora under its Aspect imprint, followed by 2004’s