I can’t not. I have written pieces where you can’t tell I’m queer because the story was short and about something else.

But I’ve written polyamorous love stories involving multiple genders and an AI, an epic fantasy novel in which the chosen one is a lesbian alchemist, a Robin Hood riff where I make Friar Tuck asexual because why not…

These things are not politics, they are people that exist or can be dreamed of…but in today’s climate they are called that.

To somebody like me, “No politics” means “Don’t write about your own lived experience.”