“…I think this sort of misguided caution is the source of a lot of sf’s monochrome futures. You know the ones I mean, where some nameless and never discussed plague has mysteriously killed off everyone with more than a hint of melanin in their skin. I wonder sometimes what kind of career I’d have if I followed suit with tales of stalwart Space Negroes and an unexplained absence of whites. But of course I don’t. I boldly write about people from other backgrounds, just as many of the field’s best authors do… If you want to go beyond the level of just assigning different skin tones and heritages to random characters, you’re going to have to do some research. Because yes, all people are the same, but they’re also quite different.”

“…We have to get angry and we have to get loud and we have to get demanding. We have to review books with GBLTQ characters or Kids of Color or different religions all the freaking time. And when we don’t see enough of them in a genre (hello Science Fiction and Fantasy, I’m looking at you) then we yell about it and we ask other people to yell about it. When we read a book about a Black teen that is great then we not only review it but we tell our friends – we suggest they read it as well… That’s a little thing but it’s a ripples in the pond kind of thing. We do the little thing that is easy by recommending and we do the big thing that is hard by screaming.”