Delany: For a number of reasons, from my racial make up to my sexuality to my chosen field of writing, SF—or even because, in this society, I’ve chosen to write at all—my life has always tended to have a large element of marginality to it, at least if you accept a certain range of experience that overlaps those of an ideal white, middle class, heterosexual male as the definition of centrality. To write clearly, accurately, with knowledge of and respect for the marginal is to be controversial—especially if you’re honest about the overlaps. Because that means it’s harder to regard the marginal as “other.” And at that point, the whole category system that has assigned values like central and marginal in the first place is threatened.
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