To the best of my knowledge, you're the only Indian woman on my lj flist-- polter_cow is a guy (and a nice, fannish, good guy, but nevertheless not female).
Of course, everyone beat me to saying 'watch Heroes!', and they are all right, you should watch Heroes. Though, the main Indian chracaters in the first episode are still men.
I'm trying to think of other good non-white female characters in fandom, and the best I have is Zoe from Firefly, whom I love with a passion which is only equaled by my love for Martha Jones. And there are Asian characters there, though they're Chinese. And M*A*S*H had occassional Korean characters-- I've never seen discussion of how well they were handled in terms of race. And things I would expect to be good, like The West Wing and Star Wars, turn out to be horribly bad on examination.
A disgustingly low number of women are real feminists, and that's true of white women as well as Asian/black/other colours. I have been looking for things about race/feminism in fandom since this sort of wank last occurred, and so far the best I've found is the blog Angry Black Women (http://theangryblackwoman.wordpress.com/). Perhaps they need an Indian guest blogger? It would be a way to start a discussion of the issue.
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on 2007-07-31 08:04 am (UTC)Of course, everyone beat me to saying 'watch Heroes!', and they are all right, you should watch Heroes. Though, the main Indian chracaters in the first episode are still men.
I'm trying to think of other good non-white female characters in fandom, and the best I have is Zoe from Firefly, whom I love with a passion which is only equaled by my love for Martha Jones. And there are Asian characters there, though they're Chinese. And M*A*S*H had occassional Korean characters-- I've never seen discussion of how well they were handled in terms of race. And things I would expect to be good, like The West Wing and Star Wars, turn out to be horribly bad on examination.
A disgustingly low number of women are real feminists, and that's true of white women as well as Asian/black/other colours. I have been looking for things about race/feminism in fandom since this sort of wank last occurred, and so far the best I've found is the blog Angry Black Women (http://theangryblackwoman.wordpress.com/). Perhaps they need an Indian guest blogger? It would be a way to start a discussion of the issue.