Open Thread: Where Do We Go From Here?

by Latoya Peterson

Netizens of Racialicious,

As your new editrix, I’ve been thinking about some other things we could do with this blog. How can we pack Racialicious with even more ideas and more topics? After talking it over with Carmen and Wendi, we’ve got a few ideas:

1. More on intersectionality, specifically how it impacts people of color;
2. Smaller features like “Quoteable” where I throw some interesting tidbit out for discussion;
3. More on poverty, class, and race;
4. More guest posts – I love hearing other perspectives so I am currently scouring the internet for more guest bloggers that fit the Racialicious voice
5. Some other topics overdue for discussion: the concept of third culture, cultural appropriation, tension between groups of people of color

Also, glad to see so many of you agreed with the updates to the comments policy. Now I am wondering if you were all just suffering in silence.

We’d also like to do more interviews with people who are working in the media but those things take a bit more time to develop than other posts, so those will probably start happening closer to the summer.

My preferred pastime is reading, so we should start seeing more about books and publishing. And I am a big geek, so expect more posts on comics, gaming, anime, manga and whatever else I run across that’s cool.

I want to open up the floor for suggestions, but I do need to make a one thing crystal clear:

This is a blog about the intersection of race and pop culture and it will stay that way.

So while we are happy to delve into race theory, gender theory, sociology, queer theory and anthropology (and find some experts to help with the interpretation), we are still going to devote a massive amount of time to dissecting images in fashion, television, and film.

So the question is: what do you want to see on Racialicious?

Floor is yours.