who'd be interested in following me live-tweeting the original Ender Quartet? Especially interested in (what I remember to be) the books' homosexual undertones and the central place it holds for radical empathy, with critical distance through an existential lens.
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honestly i think maybe that's what I found in Card: a fellow self-hating queer looking to overwhelm that self-hatred with intelligence and compassion for everyone but yourself.
Same. I still have a soft spot for him, even though I know his political stances are really toxic.
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Same. I've been afraid to re-approach the books but I'm five years into my transition more or less and I think I'm secure enough in who I am to squarely encounter such a man.
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I've spent a lot of time wondering why a man who spent his whole literary career preaching radical, universal empathy became so implacably opposed to it, but I just now had an idea: in the 1970s and 80s, when he did his best work, homosexuality was unacceptable.
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