{"id":18140,"date":"2014-02-02T21:25:49","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T21:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/i-was-asked-in-an-interview-once-youre-writing\/"},"modified":"2014-02-02T21:25:49","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T21:25:49","slug":"i-was-asked-in-an-interview-once-youre-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/i-was-asked-in-an-interview-once-youre-writing\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>I was asked in an interview once: You\u2019re writing another book with a female lead? Aren\u2019t you afraid you\u2019re going to be pigeonholed? And I thought, I write a team superhero book, an uplifting solo hero book, I write a horror-western, and I write a ghost story. What am I gonna be pigeonholed as?<\/p>\n<p>Has a man in the history of men ever been asked if he was going to be pigeonholed because he wrote two consecutive books with male leads? Half of the population is women. I lose my temper here. And it\u2019s certainly not at you. It\u2019s just this pervasive notion that \u201cwhite male\u201d is the default. And you have to justify any variation from it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thestake.org\/2014\/01\/30\/a-conversation-with-kelly-sue-deconnick\/\">Kelly-Sue stating the fucking obvious to anyone who actually pays attention and being no less inspiring for it.<\/a>\u00a0Hero. (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/kierongillen.tumblr.com\/\">kierongillen<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I am so lucky to count Kelly Sue as one of my dearest friends. She\u2019s amazing.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/wilwheaton.tumblr.com\/\">wilwheaton<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was asked in an interview once: You\u2019re writing another book with a female lead? Aren\u2019t you afraid you\u2019re going to be pigeonholed? And I thought, I write a team superhero book, an uplifting solo hero book, I write a horror-western, and I write a ghost story. What am I gonna be pigeonholed as? Has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-4IA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}