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[pantryslut]

Dear white queer writers,

I find this recent trend of claiming Octavia Butler as a queer writer icon rather problematic, probably conflationary of gender presentation and sexual orientation, and a bit tokenizing to boot (and I'm not just referring to the cheesy "from another planet" bit). Unless I'm missing something?

P.S. do all your honored queer writers have to be dead? I'd like it to be possible to be a cocktail icon before you're in the coffin. Just sayin'.

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[kalmn.livejournal.com]

yeah. there's a real big difference between "queer writer" and "writer who wrote stuff that resonates with me and i'm queer".