In fact, I think - our view of this is that while the agreement, the compromise did not achieve the KIND of super-sized deficit reduction that we sought, it did END the uncertainty around the perception, the POSSIBILITY that the UNITED States might default on its obligations for its first TIME. That was a good thing.
Read MoreThe entertainment INDUSTRY is a microcosm of the REAL world. To be 'othered' WITHIN the industry is a reflection of where we have been cast in the OUTSIDE world, existing in the margins of society for DECADES witnessing cisgendered, heterosexual whiteness as the clearly defined default to which we must cater.
Read MoreAs both an essayist and SCIENCE fiction and fantasy novelist, I write about and for the FUTURE. I talk about the past to remind us that what we BELIEVE has always been true - that men and women are somehow static categories, or that men in power has always been the default, or that same-sex love AFFAIRS were always taboo - has not always been thus.
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