This episode kept bringing me back to a simple idea: tell true stories. Rich ones. Diverse ones. Stories that actually reflect the world as it is, not a sanitized version of it. The newspaper column at the center of this story mattered because it showed queer people something they rarely saw in print: themselves. Real, complicated, full-lived versions of themselves.
The other thing this episode reminded me is to create regardless of outcome. You don't always know the reach a piece of work will have. You don't always see the impact in real time. Sometimes you just make the thing because it needs to exist, and you trust that it will find the people who need it.
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