One of the awesome projects that was sparked by discussion during RaceFail.

Some posts that particularly struck me:

ciderpress's so was i born into the world, which is gorgeous and tragic at the same time.

joannakatana on why her parents pushed her and her brother away from art and towards yes/no fields of study.

mollya on recreating her childhood food as an adult.

drelfina on Naomi Novik's Throne of Jade and Empire of Ivory (spoilers). I'm going to quote ciderpress's comment: "I would like to remind those reading to be mindful of the 90 days of RaceFail'09 and refrain from kneejerk reactions and comments because they like/love/are fans of/are friends with Novik." I love these books and from everything I've seen of Novik she's very thoughtful and she's tried hard to deal with issues of race, gender, and class reasonably in the books (within the constraints of Laurence's viewpoint), but Drelfina's post opened my eyes to some major problems I hadn't noticed because of my own privilege. Please be courteous.

dmp on Steampunking Asia brings up a lot of tough questions about how to view and participate in a subculture based largely around romantic Victorian imperialism, and some of it's pretty applicable to the SCA in broad terms, as well.

Go, read, learn stuff, be respectful.