{"id":4848,"date":"2013-10-28T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T21:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=4848"},"modified":"2013-10-28T16:40:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T21:40:00","slug":"queer-characters-in-sf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2013\/10\/28\/queer-characters-in-sf\/","title":{"rendered":"Queer characters in sf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nNicola Griffith has a new novel out, <cite>Hild<\/cite> and is getting a bit fed up with <a href=\"http:\/\/asknicola.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/10\/hilds-sexuality.html\">people asking about her heroine&#8217;s sexuality<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nInterviewers and reviewers have already asked me: So why is Hild a lesbian?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI say: First, she&#8217;s bisexual. Second, why the fuck not?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI am tired of having to have a reason for characters being queer. When my first agent told me that my proposal for Slow River was &#8220;not a selling outline,&#8221; I asked her to explain. She said, &#8220;Well, why does Lore [the protagonist] have to have a girlfriend?&#8221; I said, &#8220;Because she&#8217;s a dyke.&#8221; And fired her.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nNicola Griffith is right that it should be normal for some characters to be queer, that there doesn&#8217;t have to be a reason for them to be and that more science fiction\/fantasy writers should be unafraid to use queer characters if they want to.  What I&#8217;m more worried about is whether the average science fiction writer is up to writing queer characters without it coming over as exploitative or overtly preachy.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBut more queer characters, yes please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicola Griffith has a new novel out, Hild and is getting a bit fed up with people asking about her heroine&#8217;s sexuality: Interviewers and reviewers have already asked me: So why is Hild a lesbian? I say: First, she&#8217;s bisexual. Second, why the fuck not? I am tired of having to have a reason for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lgbt","category-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4849,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4848\/revisions\/4849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}