====== Resources - Social Issues ====== ==== LGBT Issues ==== * [[http://rictornorton.co.uk/|Gay History & Literature: Essays by Rictor Norton]] * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinaedus|Homosexuality in ancient Rome]] * [[http://www.bidstrup.com/phobiahistory.htm|"The Surprising History of Homosexuality and Homophobia"]] by Scott Bidstrup * [[http://h2g2.com/approved_entry/A7715315|Sodomy and Homosexuality in Medieval Europe]] * [[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/176640.html?thread=959862272#cmt959862272|Medieval same-sex unions]] (FFA thread) * [[http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/pwh/gaymidages.asp|The Experience of Homosexuality in the Middle Ages]] * [[http://toft.dreamwidth.org/609891.html|Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence]] * [[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uJ2F0ouf3HUC&lpg=PA209&ots=QyOZ4mneqW&dq=1600s%20homosexuality%20france&pg=PA32#v=onepage&q=three%20scenarios&f=false|Punishment for sodomy, 17th-century France]] * [[http://rictornorton.co.uk/eighteen/index.htm|Homosexuality in 18th-Century England]] * [[http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/1997/v/n8/005766ar.html?vue=integral|"Cloistered Closets: Enlightenment Pornography, The Confessional State, Homosexual Persecution and //The Monk//,"]] by Clara Tuite, published in //Érudit// No. 8, Nov. 1997 * [[http://books.google.com/books?id=CeZtUr6_fGIC&lr=&num=10|//Nineteenth-Century Writings on Homosexuality: A Sourcebook//]] by Chris White * [[http://books.google.com/books?id=GHiY3tMzhYEC&num=10|//Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London// by Seth Koven]] (also includes het info) * [[http://books.google.com/books?id=vcx0-KZ0e1AC&num=10|//London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885-1914//]] by by Matt Cook * [[http://books.google.com/books?id=deniaAw7CFsC&lr=&num=10|//Nameless Offenses//]] by H.G. Cocks * [[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=sFRWylXaAtAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Between+Women:+Friendship,+Desire,+and+Marriage+in+Victorian+England&hl=en&ei=v98sTYCMDoWlnQfyitW9DA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false|//Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England//]] by Sharon Marcus * [[http://books.google.com/books?id=NNHGuVdPELYC&num=10|//Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World//]] by George Chauncey * [[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/185074.html?thread=1006154482#cmt1006154482|Early 20th-c. intersection of queer spaces and black spaces]] (FFA thread) * [[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/149163.html?thread=790934699#cmt790934699|Coded language and condoms, m/m, late 1920s and 1930s]] (FFA thread) * [[http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/k/kaiser-metropolis.html|Chapter 1 of //The Gay Metropolis//]] by Charles Kaiser: gay life in New York in the 1940s * [[http://books.google.com/books?id=wyV9ejoQRS4C&num=10|//Queer London: perils and pleasures in the sexual metropolis, 1918-1957//]] by Matt Houlbrook * [[http://alpennia.com/lhmp.html|The Lesbian Historic Motif Project (LHMP)]] * [[https://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/179440.html?thread=975642096#cmt975642096|Non-binary pronouns]] (FFA thread) * [[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/190004.html?thread=1038099252#cmt1038099252|Homophobia in Italy]] (FFA thread) ==== Sexism/Misogyny ==== * [[http://www.tor.com/2016/03/23/writing-women-characters-into-epic-fantasy-without-quotas/|Writing Women Characters Into Epic Fantasy Without Quotas]] ==== Race and Writing Other Cultures ==== * [[http://racismschool.tumblr.com/post/60314900495/how-do-i-write-a-poc-character-when-im-not-a-poc|How Do I Write a PoC Character When I'm Not a PoC?]] * [[http://www.irosf.com/q/zine/article/10087|Appropriate Cultural Appropriation]] * [[http://co-geeking.com/2016/03/22/race-and-culture-in-hannibals-army/|Race and Culture in Hannibal's Army]] * [[https://www.collarcitybrownstone.com/2012/07/black-victoriana.html|Black Victoriana]] and [[http://www.imageoftheblack.com/index.html|Image of the Black]] — both touted on FFA as excellent alternatives to [[GirlJanitor|MPOC]] * [[http://blackgirllonghair.com/2014/07/shocking-history-why-women-of-color-in-the-1800s-were-banned-from-wearing-their-hair-in-public/|19th-c. women of color in Louisiana were forced to cover their hair in public]] * [[http://oaktree89.livejournal.com/153242.html|How to write about Erik Lensherr being Jewish]] * [[miscellaneous-resources|Racial relations in 1950s-60s UK]] (FFA thread) * An FFA discussion of drawing on ancient civilizations for original fic worldbuilding prompts [[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/88737.html?thread=427818657#cmt427818657|a couple]] of [[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/88737.html?thread=427825569#cmt427825569|comments]] with good suggestions for non-European ones to check out. * Immigration: [[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:World_maps_denoting_birthplace_by_country|World maps denoting birthplace by country]] * [[http://www.freewebs.com/worldcultures/|World Cultures]] ==== Classism ==== * A Quick and Dirty Guide to the British Education System: [[http://gemnoire.livejournal.com/15556.html|Part I]] and [[http://gemnoire.livejournal.com/15767.html|Part II]] * [[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/148471.html?thread=786145527#cmt786145527|Social class in Asia]] (FFA thread) Writing Disabled Characters * [[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/178418.html?thread=969519346#cmt969519346|Historical disability]] (FFA thread) * [[http://accessportrayal.livejournal.com/|Information for writers of disabled characters]] * [[http://fuckyeahcharacterdevelopment.tumblr.com/post/40556655544/disability-contacts|People willing to be contacts re characters with various disabilities]] * [[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/111162.html?thread=562674490#cmt562674490|Writing about people with amputated limbs]] (FFA thread) * [[http://rachelmanija.livejournal.com/541123.html|A user's guide to PTSD]] * [[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/151309.html?thread=805080333#cmt805080333|Signs of PTSD in children]] (FFA thread) * [[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/182920.html?thread=994421640#cmt994421640|Anxiety attacks]] (FFA thread) * Dyslexic!nonny [[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/131867.html?thread=687257627#cmt687257627|talks about]] living with [[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/132102.html?thread=688593926#cmt688593926|the disorder]] * [[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/187550.html?thread=1021869726#cmt1021869726|19th-c. blind character, upper-class]] (FFA thread) * [[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/183605.html?thread=998324789#cmt998324789|Blind character]] [[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/183605.html?thread=998324789#cmt998324789|having sex]] (FFA thread) * {{tag>todo threads threads:research}}