K. Tempest BradfordMay 23, 2023

"Narratives that use robots and androids to represent the Other often don’t interrogate the assumptions about humanity at their core because they fail to answer one question:
Why are so many androids white?"

Read the rest of my essay "Androids and Allegory" at Twelfth Planet Press.

Edit: changed link to HTTP, hopefully that solves the problem!

http://motherofinvention.twelfthplanetpress.com/2018/07/02/androids-and-allegory/

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Androids and Allegory

By K. Tempest Bradford The science fiction genre digs its allegories. Scratch the surface of any piece of literature, movie, or TV show that features alien races, advanced or mutant humans, robots,…

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@tempest This is something I’ve been talking with @KariDru about when people are like, “Why not be cruel to the AI? It’s not hurting anyone!” or similar. What does having a safe racism outlet like that do to the individual? What you do shapes you. Having someone to safely shit on just gets you in the habit of shitting on people. As we say in Say She, Toy: “Wanting to torture someone isn’t natural and as soon as we make it so, we’ve all lost.” Exactly this.
May 23, 2023 at 8:16pmWeb