Saw a #StarWars fan Twitter account purporting diversity and none of ABOUT THEM was diverse.
It’s great to have a diverse group of fans create a space for other fans to enjoy Star Wars, but at the very minimum, do not use diversity as your goal when your organization is not diverse.
They were promoting women’s voices in the Fandom. Forget Fangirl Zone or Legion of Leia. They made up their own, which is fine, whatever. The Star Wars Actors Guild 77, owned by a Black woman, wishes them well. The more represented voices, the better.
But how can you say you are diverse when your front matter pages have no observable diverse people? That makes NO SENSE! Like, huh, what? If you say you’re about diversity, then be about diversity, don’t have us as tokens of a fetish to solely tick marks off some arbitrary application to say you have our voice. We honor our voices, especially when many of our ancestors had no voice. Likewise, our voices, or rather, we have lost our voice or right to vote in Georgia.
Fan groups like us and others are about Star Wars first. Or at least Fandom first. The stories, the characters, the plots. We are about that first. Not about promotion solely as first. One needs to have a firm story backbone and foundation to build on the characters required to tell a story first. And it could be based on race, creed, gender, non-binary, LGBTQIA+, trans, multiethnic, or differently abled -- but the STORY -- THE STORY -- THE STORY comes first, always.
It is the longevity of a group that matters, not the friendships, while good to have, but the LONGEVITY.
And your front page matter is LACKING. Fix it.
