For one second all I know, everything is made of snow

[sovay]

I was just informed that there will be a television adaptation of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness (1969).

If the Gethenian characters are not cast with genderqueer actors, I will feel someone is missing the point.

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[kore]

Not to mention in the metaframing or however it would be put -- here was a woman, writing in a male-dominated field, writing a central male character in first person and giving us what she thought of as a male perspective on androgynous aliens. Altho I think at that period in her career Le Guin was still resisting what she thought of as 'radical' feminism and going for humanism, altho that changed quite quickly in the seventies, and I think really was evident in her writing through the eighties (Eye of the Heron, Always Coming Home, Beginning Place, Tehanu).