Fully agree that it's possible - even necessary - for us to honour all the stories. I do think the current state of the attention economy encourages this zero-sum mentality where creators (both historical and not) are pitted against each other - if you read/promote Author X, you're taking potential eyeballs away from Author Y.
I was just thinking earlier about how frustrated I get with rhetoric that treats being gay/bi/queer/etc. as a virtue in contrast to boring, conservative straight-cisness, where queerness or LGBTQ+ness becomes a cipher for coolness, originality, radicalism, and so on. This bothers me on so many different levels - for one, I'd rather be judged on my own merits rather than have them assumed on the basis of my sexuality/gender identity/presentation (and I am NOT cool at all, as proven by my use of the word "cool" in 2023). I'm absolutely with you on the dangers of essentialism in this and similar discourses.
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Date: 29 May 2023 12:20 (UTC)I was just thinking earlier about how frustrated I get with rhetoric that treats being gay/bi/queer/etc. as a virtue in contrast to boring, conservative straight-cisness, where queerness or LGBTQ+ness becomes a cipher for coolness, originality, radicalism, and so on. This bothers me on so many different levels - for one, I'd rather be judged on my own merits rather than have them assumed on the basis of my sexuality/gender identity/presentation (and I am NOT cool at all, as proven by my use of the word "cool" in 2023). I'm absolutely with you on the dangers of essentialism in this and similar discourses.