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In today’s sci-fi/ fantasy community, it’s fashionable to dig up H.P. Lovecraft and put him on trial as the avatar of everything wrong with speculative fiction. While we won\u2019t defend Lovecraft\u2019s abhorrent social values, we have to ask: what is the point of this? What do we gain by canceling a man who is now a dusty skeleton mouldering in the dirt? Are we really reckoning with genre fiction’s bigoted past, or are we just looking for a way to distract from our contemporary problems?
\nIn this episode, Karlo Yeager Rodr\xedguez joins us to talk about horror, colonialism, and Captain Picard’s dangerous space dumps.
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\nL*vecraft Country
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\nFound in the Archives: America\u2019s Unsettling Early Eugenicist Movement
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\nRacism in the American North
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\nThe Route of Ice and Salt is a vampire classic back from the dead
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\nDecolonization is not a metaphor
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\nPodside Picnic
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\nDiseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race
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\nIn Maine, a Hidden History on Malaga Island
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\nNew Life and New Civilizations: Socialism, Progress & the Final Frontier
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\nAbout Rite Gud: Raquel S. Benedict is an author, appearing in Fantasy and Science Fiction and Gardner Dozois’ The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year’s Best Science Fiction.\xa0Matt Keeley, founder of Kittysneezes, is producing\xa0Rite Gud for KS Media, LLC.\xa0Rite Gud is a Kittysneezes production. If you have questions, comments and concerns, email ritegud – at – kittysneezes – dot – com.\xa0Rite Gud is also on Patreon, at patreon.com/ritegud. Patrons receive access to the official Kittysneezes Discord, exclusive episodes, critiques and more.\xa0 Show edited by Sid Oozeley.
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