"when we forget that the media lies, we forget ourselves, we forget the realities that we know. Our presses, the feminist presses, the small presses, taught us: they will lie to us. They lied to us in every book that they published that didn't bother to mention the gay character who we knew was embedded in the text-or created a Black character who sounded exactly like the white characters in the interest of cosmopolitanism, as if the thoughts in their heads were exactly the same as the white characters."
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