I mostly read (hard) sci-fi written by straight white dudes, so the tweet on the screenshot made me feel a bit defensive. In the replies and qrts people are patting themselves on the back for reading marginalized fantasy writers exclusively and this "consumption as activism" seems rad-libby to me, but maybe I'm wrong.
Have you read NK's "The ones who stay and fight"? I think she might be more left inclined than the average warren lib.
Less compelling once I realized that "fight" in the author's mind meant "vote for big structural bailey"
She actually answered me once when I attacked Warren on twitter. I'll look into this. Like I said, I think she's a good writer, just maybe not the best person.
Goddamn though, Twitter is absolute brain poison. One of the things I always think about with Jemisin is how she got caught up in the "I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter" scandal. Write up about that here, if you're not familiar, though content warning for transphobia and suicidal thoughts. And, whatever, it was just one moment of thoughtlessness from Jemisin, what happened to Fall wasn't her fault, and she had a pretty minor role in the whole thing anyway. She took a lot of shit for it all. But it's just such a clear example of how fucked the performative outrage machine that is twitter really is. Here you've got an author, a noted progressive, has positive trans rep. in her novels, and she still stumbles ass-backward into this kind of fuck up because she had to go and have a hot take about some story she hadn't even read. Twitter, it's bad.
Ah, fuck that then. I wish the dumb libs could actually understand the difference between attacks from the left and attacks from the right.