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“Without acknowledging the variety of the human experience, all you get is the perspective of majority representation, which is mostly white and male and straight and able-bodied and cisgender and "traditionally" attractive. None of those things are inherently negative... but neither are their alternatives. So, all deserve some spotlight.”

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Book:Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities
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“Include and project the voices of underrepresented people in the spaces where their access is limited. Go love, and build, and restore, and speak, and engage, and create. Go be better and do better.”

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Book:Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities
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“Alternative lifestyle communities can easily become victim to cults of personality. Calling out problems in a community or running afoul of the wrong popular organizer, even for the right reasons, can lead to a social backlash.”

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Book:Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities
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