Kate (![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small} kate_nepveu) wrote, |
incredibly/embarrassingly/depressingly glad that they exist for me to clutch at in the first place
It's like those Aaronovitch books I was mentioning--I shouldn't be _so_ _grateful_ for the existence of a bi-racial protagonist whose ancestry and appearance is _shown to matter_ and minor characters like Dr. Walid the "practicing Scot" and the African constable in a hijab who introduces herself as a "Muslim ninja" and so forth. I am! I just wish it weren't so remarkable.
It's like those Aaronovitch books I was mentioning--I shouldn't be _so_ _grateful_ for the existence of a bi-racial protagonist whose ancestry and appearance is _shown to matter_ and minor characters like Dr. Walid the "practicing Scot" and the African constable in a hijab who introduces herself as a "Muslim ninja" and so forth. I am! I just wish it weren't so remarkable.
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