Big white boy, little Native American
The Incredible Shrinking…
and Expanding Ethnic Minority
or The Racist in the Cupboard
Unwilling body alterations give these “instant kiddie classics” disturbing undertones
By Gary Morris, in Bright Lights Film Journal
While the exact details are sketchy, historians agree that Pocahontas was probably 10 or 12 years old, not the twentysomething sex bomb of the film.
BY GARY MORRIS, in Bright Lights Film Journal
excerpt:
The physical growth of America depended on the expropriation of land and the colonization of its owners, a process mythologized in stories of the Old West with its self-sacrificing settlers, brave pioneers, and romantic gunslingers. The enemies were Native Americans and Mexicans who resisted the white outsiders who came armed with both weapons and a self-derived moral/religious sanction. American appropriation of European science fiction followed a similar, if less bloody, pattern…
Photo by Seshu Badrinath
article by Claire Light in Hyphen: Asian America Unabridged
excerpt:
Telepathic lovers attend a bondage play party at a gothic mansion. The scion of space colonists dives for orgasm pearls which give her history lessons. A spaceport convict receives training in sexual submission. These and other fictograms are brought to you by the fantastic and freaky imagination of Cecilia Tan, an embodiment and observer of intersections. Her current favorite is between science fiction and bondage/domination erotica, two great tastes that taste so great together that she founded Circlet Press to publish such confections. Just over a decade old, Circlet Press has established a small but permanent niche in the ever widening, and ever more reputable, publishing field of erotica.
