apparently there's a "censorship" conversation that's going on? the fact that a thread that came out of an unrelated conversation with stitch produced can ALSO apply to an unrelated conversation happening SIMULTANEOUSLY really speaks to how fandom is deeper in it than we thought. https://twitter.com/aka_spacedog/status/1252624343634292736

to say that our options are "absolute freedom to do whatever we want, don't like/don't read" or "totalitarian censorship where no one is allowed to write anything" is a binary that doesn't even begin to capture what we owe to each other as a community.

as i say in the thread, "absolute freedom or totalitarian censorship" as a fandom mindset is a privileged, frankly colonizer ideology that gives room for alt-right/channers to come in, or at least, for fans to adopt their ideas comfortably. example here: https://twitter.com/aka_spacedog/status/1252614474491559937?s=20

"absolute freedom/moral good" vs. "censorship/moral evil." is a colonizer attitude. we need to refram fandom in terms of privilege & power. in other words, "am i doing the work in my fic/writing to destroy oppression, or am i maintaining oppression?" https://twitter.com/aka_spacedog/status/1252619875358396416?s=20

look. i recognize this is isn't popular. don't think i haven't noticed. but the ONLY way we, fandom, are going to resist the fascist creep is by taking non-colonizer tactics. not centering oppression & taking "absolute freedom" as a goal, not a limit, is THE colonizer tactic.