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\\nScience fiction and fantasy can imagine many things\\u2013impossible worlds, unthinkable technology, fantastic creatures, magic, gods and monsters\\u2013but for some reason, a lot of SFF authors have a hard time imagining stories about poor people. Fantasy stories often focus on royalty. Sci-fi protagonists tend to be middle or upper class: tenured professors, scientists, white-collar astronauts, federal agents, military officers, that kind of thing. Even when a story starts with a poor protagonist, by the end they\\u2019ve usually achieved knighthood or become captain of a spaceship or something like that. But what\\u2019s wrong with writing about poor people or working class people? Don\\u2019t they have stories worth telling?
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\\nAbout the Kinsey Institute
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\\nWe Will Support You: The Story of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners
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\\nChristian Smalls: A New Kind of Labor Leader
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\\nThe Smol Bean Emperor
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\\nThe Wage Gap Among LGBTQ Workers in the United States
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\\nThe Disturbing Story of Death and Insanity at Wales\\u2019 Most Remote Lighthouse
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\\nQualia Redux: Is Twitter Dead?
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\\nAbout Rite Gud: Raquel S. Benedict is an author, appearing in Fantasy and Science Fiction and Gardner Dozois’ The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year’s Best Science Fiction.\\xa0Matt Keeley, founder of Kittysneezes, is producing\\xa0Rite Gud for KS Media, LLC.\\xa0Rite Gud is a Kittysneezes production. If you have questions, comments and concerns, email ritegud – at – kittysneezes – dot – com.\\xa0Rite Gud is also on Patreon, at patreon.com/ritegud. Patrons receive access to the official Kittysneezes Discord, exclusive episodes and more.\\xa0
\\nThe Rite Gud theme is by OK Glass. Follow them on Twitter, YouTube and Bandcamp, and at OK.Glass.\\xa0
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