“We learned yesterday that while participating in the ‘Romancing Sci-Fi & Fantasy’ panel, Mercedes Lackey used a racial slur,” the board wrote in a statement. The SWFA board issued a statement on Sunday announcing that it had removed Lackey, 71, from the conference, disabled access to panel footage to ‘avoid further harm’ and contacted others panelists to determine how they would prefer to proceed. “Chip” Delany, 80, a famous author and literary critic (winner of multiple SFWA Nebula awards), “colorful” while praising his work on the “Romancing Sci-Fi & Fantasy” panel at the SFWA Nebula conference on Saturday, May 21. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) expelled award-winning author Mercedes Lackey from a conference over her use of a “racial slur”, even though the black author she later referred to said that he didn’t consider the term attack.
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