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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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[alibi-shop.livejournal.com]

OK, the "from another planet" part makes a little more sense to me now, just because she was the only SF writer on the list - it's like, if she had written comic books, they would've said "(bang, zoom!)". Still, all those descriptions are pretty dumb. Nuns can't drink? Ha ha ha.

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

Yes, nuns never ever ever had anything to do with alcohol (http://www.beeratjoes.com/?p=158)!