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the-bluebonnet-bandit:klancetrashthatispanandistrans:sizvideos:Hamilton’s Leslie Odom Jr. talks diversity on Broadway - Watch the full videoMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM I LOVE HIMThere’s a lot of people who exist in the world.A lot of stories to tell.In high school, I started to get bored with the books I was reading. I read a lot of science fiction and fantasy, because I loved the strange and different worlds. But they started to lose their shine as I read more of them. I felt like I was reading the same story over and over again. I started to wonder (incredibly arrogantly in retrospect) if maybe I’d just read too many books. If I’d exhausted all the novelty fantastical fiction had to offer. Then I found queer fiction. And fanfiction. Fiction written by women and PoC. I slipped the narrow confines of the books I’d been told were worth reading. And I realized that I had been reading the same story over and over again. The stories I had been reading had all been the greatness fantasies of straight white men, constructed within their very narrow framework of what made someone inadequate and what made someone laudable. Of course I’d been bored. I’d once thought Neuromancer and Old Man’s War were as different as books could be.. But looking back … how could I have stood to the read the exact same story so many times? I learned that the worlds I’d been reading about were not so different from our own. I found worlds which didn’t try to be different, but just showed me parts of the world around me I’d never seen before. I found worlds which genuinely were different, and they shook my conception of what the world I lived in really looked like. There are so many different stories in the world. And they are all worth telling. -- source link
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