{"id":14225,"date":"2015-02-21T14:15:44","date_gmt":"2015-02-21T14:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/look-without-our-stories-without-the-true-nature\/"},"modified":"2015-02-21T14:15:44","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T14:15:44","slug":"look-without-our-stories-without-the-true-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/look-without-our-stories-without-the-true-nature\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Look, without our stories, without the true nature and reality of who we are as People of Color, nothing about fanboy or fangirl culture would make sense. What I mean by that is: if it wasn\u2019t for race, X-Men doesn\u2019t make sense. If it wasn\u2019t for the history of breeding human beings in the New World through chattel slavery, Dune doesn\u2019t make sense. If it wasn\u2019t for the history of colonialism and imperialism, Star Wars doesn\u2019t make sense. If it wasn\u2019t for the extermination of so many Indigenous First Nations, most of what we call science fiction\u2019s contact stories doesn\u2019t make sense. Without us as the secret sauce, none of this works, and it is about time that we understood that we are the Force that holds the Star Wars universe together. We\u2019re the Prime Directive that makes Star Trek possible, yeah. In the Green Lantern Corps, we are the oath. We are all of these things\u2014erased, and yet without us\u2014we are essential.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>Junot D\u00edaz, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/fanbros\/the-junot-diaz-episode\">The Junot D\u00edaz Episode<\/a>&ldquo; (18 November 2013) on <a href=\"http:\/\/fanbros.com\">Fan Bros<\/a>, a podcast \u201cfor geek culture via people of colors\u201d (via <a href=\"http:\/\/kynodontas.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">kynodontas<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Junot Diaz stay not fucking up. This is a really good interview.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/commanderbishoujo.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">commanderbishoujo<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look, without our stories, without the true nature and reality of who we are as People of Color, nothing about fanboy or fangirl culture would make sense. What I mean by that is: if it wasn\u2019t for race, X-Men doesn\u2019t make sense. If it wasn\u2019t for the history of breeding human beings in the New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3Hr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}