Kermit O
WRITER • EDUCATOR • DREAMER — Light brown. Unapologetically Black. Punches up. Writing a dreampunk novel about kids, trauma, and parallel worlds.

The High Concept of Fate

May 18, 2011 • Books, Close Reading, Media Analysis

Who Fears Death, for its fatalistic structure, could have easily fallen into the trap of giving the overall plot precedence over the characters. Yet, on the contrary, the vast majority of the book was spent developing the characters as they traveled – no, were pulled along – towards their fate…

Nnedi Okorafor, SFF, Who Fears Death

The Misrepresentation of the Magical Negro

March 7, 2011 • Books, Close Reading, Media Analysis

It is one of the oldest clichés that the “forces of darkness” will set upon that which is good and “light”. In a medium where the heroes are most often white and characters of color – especially black characters – are reduced to plot devices, and in a society where power is designated along lines of “light” and “dark”, the old trope is necessarily racialized…

magical negro, Nnedi Okorafor, SFF

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