tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9367921.post8382153110094399566..comments2024-03-26T09:40:00.710-06:00Comments on La Bloga: Latino Sci-Fi Society? Keystone XL Pipeline.Contributing Bloguistas:http://www.blogger.com/profile/13054190814722049711noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9367921.post-37614206259837885182014-02-23T09:12:55.424-07:002014-02-23T09:12:55.424-07:00Ay! I guess I need to say a few things here, even ...Ay! I guess I need to say a few things here, even though I've never been much of an organization vato. <br /><br />Latino scifiistas need to communicate. Yeah, some kind of organization is necessary. More important a venue for discussion. I don't know how formal it should be.<br /><br />I've been in SFWA and dropped out. From what I can see SFWA is useless as organization to help writers. All it really does is provide status for people who have published a little, and allows them go around playing professional writer. Ya gotta wonder about a "professional" organization consisting mostly of members who don't make any money from their so-called profession.<br /><br />I've never heard of the Carl Brandon Society, but I am a member of Black Science Fiction Society. All I had to do was sign up.<br /><br />Afrofutuism isn't monolithic. A Latino variation shouldn't be either. What we are doing is freeing speculative fiction (for lack of a better term) from the English-speaking, white male ghetto where it hung out in the 20th century. Going planetary isn't enough. Intergalactic is probably more like it.<br /><br />We need to avoid caudillismo and nationalism. The complex system of Latino cultures, Latino civilization, is the result of different cultures coming together, and our spec fic should set free the imagination of La Raza Cosmica.<br /><br />Ay! What a awful lot of babble for Sunday morning. I've at this for too long, decades, and a lot of the time it's seemed like I've been talking to myself. It will be a pleasure to hear from the rest of you out there . . .ERNEST HOGANhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16540897948215678872noreply@blogger.com