{"id":6093,"date":"2022-02-16T17:00:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T17:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/?p=6093"},"modified":"2022-03-13T08:25:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T08:25:26","slug":"cff-statement-on-the-online-abuse-of-mariana-rios-maldonado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/index.php\/2022\/02\/16\/cff-statement-on-the-online-abuse-of-mariana-rios-maldonado\/","title":{"rendered":"CFF Statement on the online abuse of Mariana Rios Maldonado"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>CFF Statement on the online abuse of Mariana Rios Maldonado<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gla.ac.uk\/schools\/critical\/research\/researchcentresandnetworks\/fantasyatglasgow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic (CFF)<\/a>&nbsp;at the University of Glasgow condemns online attacks, harassment, and bullying against our Equality and Diversity Officer and PhD researcher Mariana Rios Maldonado.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In recognition of her standing as a scholar with special expertise in Tolkien studies, Mariana was interviewed by journalists, and a short quotation from the interview was included in the 10 February 2022 exclusive&nbsp;<em>Vanity Fair<\/em>&nbsp;article \u2018Amazon\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Lord of the Rings<\/em>&nbsp;Series Rises: Inside&nbsp;<em>The Rings of Power<\/em>\u2019,which revealed some of the casting, plotline, and other choices behind the highly-anticipated TV epic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This quotation has elicited unwarranted and unacceptable abuse and misinformation from certain quarters who have taken against the series\u2019 diverse casting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are saddened to see hate and abuse directed towards a person of colour researching Tolkien, and we stand by Mariana, her research, and her inclusive approach to fantasy. These are values the Centre shares, clearly articulated in our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gla.ac.uk\/schools\/critical\/research\/researchcentresandnetworks\/fantasyatglasgow\/code-of-conduct\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Code of Conduct<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Dimitra Fimi<br>Senior Lecturer in Fantasy and Children\u2019s Literature, CFF Co-Director<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Robert Maslen<br>Senior Lecturer in English Literature, CFF Co-Director<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CFF Statement on the online abuse of Mariana Rios Maldonado The Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic (CFF)&nbsp;at the University of Glasgow condemns online attacks, harassment, and bullying against our Equality and Diversity Officer and PhD researcher Mariana Rios Maldonado. In recognition of her standing as a scholar with special expertise in Tolkien studies, Mariana &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/index.php\/2022\/02\/16\/cff-statement-on-the-online-abuse-of-mariana-rios-maldonado\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CFF Statement on the online abuse of Mariana Rios Maldonado&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6093"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9704,"href":"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6093\/revisions\/9704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}