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Internet! I am looking for a good database and/or personal recommendations of science fiction media foregrounding characters of color. My father was expressing his disappointment in the latest season of Doctor Who tonight and he is quite right (among other complaints) that reverse-fridging a male character reads much less cleverly and much more sketchily when the male character is black. I should like to be able to recommend him some antidotes.1 More than one person of color in the cast preferred—who are not the canaries in the coal mine or the sacrifices on behalf of the white characters, if there are any white characters; there don't need to be. Bonus points from my perspective if there are women with agency and queer characters. (I should just hand him Janelle Monáe's back catalogue, right?) He is a hard sell on animation and does not play games, but enjoys things that are not in English. I can do this a lot more easily with books.
1. It is not like my father has never seen science fiction with protagonists of color; he followed Eureka for a while just because it contained Joe Morton. I just know there's always room for more. A lot of room.
1. It is not like my father has never seen science fiction with protagonists of color; he followed Eureka for a while just because it contained Joe Morton. I just know there's always room for more. A lot of room.
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Okay; it's on the list.
If he hasn't seen Sunshine, I'd also recommend that, in terms of representation. That's a genuinely international-looking crew on that internationally-driven space mission.
I think he has, because I believe we've talked about it, but I'll double-check. Personally I think that film fell off a cliff in the third act, but I loved the first two, slow and inescapable as the sun filling the sky.
Oh, and weirdly, Z Nation is doing well on the POC front, especially now that Roberta Warren is the main heroic leader type.
You know, for a show that started out as an unapologetic rip-off of The Walking Dead, Z Nation sounds like it's doing some interesting things.