6/27/2023 0 Comments Shattered by Lee Winter![]() ![]() I decided to stop just talking about it and write my own. I’d love a million more books with diversity of every stripe, but especially BIPoC. One, I feel lesbian fiction, including sci-fi, is so very white. Why did you make your lesbian superhero a woman of color? What they come to feel and share is an exploration and realization of what it means to be human. Then briefly physically, before finally they reach an understanding that is a deep, soul-connected friendship. It starts as an argument: Does a superhero get to deprive us of her incredible skills given Earth saved her life? Does she have that right to walk away just because she’s mad at being outed as a lesbian superhero? That’s how Lena sees her position at least, and she’s in for an education.įrom this fight emerges a connection that begins intellectually. That’s a difficult thing when one of the women (the superhero Nyah/Shattergirl) just wants to hide out at the ends of the earth, and the other, Lena, a tracker, wants to drag her back to civilization. ![]() ![]() She wears the outfit, has a special skill of being able to hurl huge objects, and shatter them, but that’s almost beside the point of the book.Īt its core, Shattered is about two incredibly different women who disagree on almost everything, forced to sit down as a storm literally rages around them, and find common ground. I mean, yes, of course, it is sci-fi because she is a superhero, and Earth’s first lesbian superhero, no less, in my universe. ![]()
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