Annie Hsh 🖖

Since my post on Ursula K. Le Guin's approach to gender-neutral pronouns and her being firmly in support of the singular 'they' is still getting some traction, it's also worth sharing this long but definitely interesting interview to The Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) from 2017 where she revisits the subject, among several other things. 'A Conversation on Craft with Ursula K. Le Guin' 🔗: https://www.awpwriter.org/magazine_media/writers_chronicle_view/4249/a_conversation_on_craft_with_ursula_k._le_guin #UrsulaKLeguin #gender #diversity #pronouns #books #bookstodon

@lunavives@mastodon.social @beecycling@romancelandia.club Very much agreed, I also think that her work definitely improved with age.

@beecycling@romancelandia.club Perfectly put, couldn't have said it better. And all that back in 1994, almost 30 years ago. Many people today could learn a lot from her way of handling things and her openness to learning new information and to admitting of having been wrong.

@philsherry@home.social She provides more context in the text I linked about that. It's worth reading.

@AlinaLeonova@wandering.shop It definitely *is* annoying and distracts you from imagining the characters as truly genderless, and it is one of the major criticisms that the book received too. The good thing is that she ended up fully acknowledging that and admitting to wishing she would have done it differently. But yeah, it's confusing af. XD

@llewelly@sauropods.win I feel you, after moving country more than once, a lot of my books have been lost, donated, or left behind. And indeed she did, she was generally very open in how she approached the matter and also open to admitting that she saw things differently upon receiving new information since The Left Hand of Darkness was published.

@philsherry@home.social OK