RaceFail 09 — a summary of which is available here and a timeline here, and which Rydra Wong has exhaustively archived — led to some incredibly rude and defensive behavior on the part of published authors and SF editors. It has also inspired some amazing posts about writing the other and some new communities dedicated to reading and publishing works by people of color. I cannot recommend highly enough:

• Deepa D.’s I Didn’t Dream of Dragons
• Mary Anne Mohanraj’s two posts on John Scalzi’s blog
• bossymarmalade’s beautiful sees fire
• Verb Noire, the community devoted to publishing writers of color
• fight_derailing: aimed at continuing a productive conversation about race in SF/fantasy
• 50Books_POC: a community dedicated to reading books by writers of color