One of the funny-sad parts of a culture that pays lip service to equity is how shocked people are when someone is many things. In SFF, we had a BIPOC lesbian who terrorized other BIPOC writers, & a trans disabled writer who turned out to be a nepo hire for Lockheed Martin... and every time, there's been silly shock at the idea that a marginalized person could be multifaceted.
Ditto with RuPaul, fracking magnate.
This is a fun, weary review of his memoir.
#PeopleArePeople
https://archive.ph/2KUxV
"RuPaul summarizes the Great Migration in a paragraph that would be considered too concise even for a Wikipedia entry ...
Aside from breathtaking dismissiveness of the decades of racial violence that made the migration necessary, it’s chilling to see a public figure known as a champion of the marginalized so easily dismiss survivors of Jim Crow-era terror as people who 'hold onto their victim mentality so fiercely; it becomes a defining feature of their identity.'”