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A timeline of meta on race and racism in fandom.

2000s

2001

• Is Star Trek Racist?

2006

• Some advice for white people in fandom
• My *Other* Problem With Recent DC Events

2007

• White liberal flailing, "ghetto passes," Teal'c
• The Outer Culture Is You by Merlin Missy

2008

• How Much Is That Geisha In the Window? (metavid)

2010s

2010

• Drawing Characters of Colour

2013

• To what extent does femslash perpetuate the white gaze?

2014

• Anti-racist principles and practices in femslash fandom

2015

• I love Hamilton, but something about the way white fans engage with the musical really bothers me

2016

• What Shipping Richonne Taught Me About Racism
• I’m quitting Femslash Fandom
• Your Vagina is a Bigot; My Vagina is a Saint by Franzeska Dickson
• A decade in online fandom social justice
• Fansplaining: Race and Fandom Part 1 and 2
• Fandom’s Race Problem and the AO3 Ship Stats
• *cracks open a bag of candy and a jar of salt* SO, HALLOWEEN PSA TIME by frogopera
• Fandom Ghost: Created Out Of Wholecloth By Fanon by wildehack

2017

• Why Do People Like Weird Ships? An Analysis of AO3 Porn Statistics by Sponge

2018

• a case for more fanworks about black and brown women, or when Discourse isn’t enough by irresistible-revolution
• What Fandom Racism Looks Like: The Smartest Girl in the World Has To Be A Mary Sue by Stitch
• What Fandom Racism Looks Like: Only 33 Words in a Trailer by Stitch
• What Fandom Racism Looks Like: (Not-So) Sexy Slavefic by Stitch
• Stitch Talks Toxic Fandom

2019

• You ever invite your coworker to watch you give birth just to spite a racist by beckettmariner

2020's

2020

• Western LGBT fans and entitlement
• Don’t write George Floyd fanfiction
• What's up with the AO3 and racism?
• The Book of Nile Manifesto, a ship manifesto meant to correct the lack of fan-focus on Nile Freeman, the black protagonist of The Old Guard

2021

• AO3's Filtration System

2024

• A guide to drawing, discussing, and writing black characters (because apparently none of you know how to act right) by taiboboisland (Total Drama and Disventure Camp fandom specific)