"Definitely if I am writing something that feels completely straight, I’ll sew some queerness in there, because queerness is always there. It’s like when you’re writing a cityscape, you need to write in the characters that would be there. To me, not doing that is more of a choice."
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On usually including queer characters in “Interview: Mariko Tamaki” in Geeks Out (2018 Jun 20)
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