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Holly Black and Sarah Rees Brennan are two well-known, published authors in the young adult genre and proof that dedicated white fantasy authors can include characters of color in their works. Holly Black has written non-white and non-straight characters in her books since her first novel, Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale . Two of her popular book series feature biracial lead protagonists, the Modern...

Cassandra Clare is the product of an adventurous literary family. Born in Tehran, Iran, she is the daughter of respected American author Professor Richard Rumelt. Her grandfather Max Rosenberg produced the first horror film in color, The Curse of Frankenstein, in 1957 and is perhaps most noted as the producer of the Doctor Who films in the 1960’s. While she was still a toddler, her father spent...

Today marks the release date of Mass Effect III, which is the first installment of the video game trilogy to allow players to choose a male avatar and romance another male character. screenshot from a romance scene from Mass Effect 3 (spoilers) One of the hallmarks of Biowares storytelling is the nuanced portrayals of relationships and interactions between characters. This is no small feat consi...

Under happier circumstances, Billie Frechette would have been my great aunt. She toured around the country for five years with my great uncles as part of the “Crime Doesn’t Pay” stage show. There, she recounted her six months with their son and brother John Dillinger–and her own two years in jail that came as a result of her fateful romance with him. Billy Frechette bookin...

Carmen Moore is a veteran Vancouver film and television actress. Growing up in Coquitlam British Columbia she began acting in high school and at the Spirit Song Native Theatre Company. Over the last ten years, Moore has become a “sci-fi girl” appearing in such series as Stargate S-G1, Lost in Space, Flash Gordon, Andromeda, Wolf Lake, and in all three of SciFi Channel’s Battlest...

Because the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender draws from the real-world culture of Tibet, and because of the controversy surrounding the Groupon Super Bowl commercial, which parodied the plight of the Tibetan people, Racebending.com contributor Gabriel Canada contacted the founders of the Tibetan Photo Project through email for an interview. They shared their thoughts on media representation of...

Actor and activist Chaske Spencer was born of the Lakota Sioux tribe, and raised on Indian Reservations in Montana and Idaho. He broke into the off-Broadway theater scene playing the title role in Dracula and is best known for playing werewolf alpha Sam Uley in the Twilight saga. Racebending.com contributor Gabriel Canada interviewed Chaske Spencer over the phone on August 17th, 2010. NOTE: T...

Tantoo Cardinal is a Canadian Métis film and television actress. She is one of the most recognizable Native American actresses in the world, and has appeared in over 50 films, including Dances With Wolves and Smoke Signals. Métis are Canadians of mixed Native American and European descent; Cardinal can trace her heritage back to Cree, Chipweyan, Lakota culture. In 1971, She discovered acting...