"…Even though we talk about race a lot in the literature, there’s still this idea of “Well, if we make this person blue and give them pointy ears, then we don’t have to actually talk about what’s happening in the real world.” And those of us who live in racialized bodies feel that lack, we feel that erasure, so yes, there was something quite deliberate in my doing half the speech as an alien."
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On race still being a taboo topic in the world of science fiction in “Interview: Nalo Hopkinson” in Lightspeed (June 2013)
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