If you define "Should trans kids be allowed to get the medical care to stay alive?" "Should gay people be allowed to marry their partners?" "Should a woman die before having an abortion?" or "Should Black people go to college?" as politics, then no, I'm not shy from expressing my political views.

But I don't consider civil rights to be politics. I don't consider equality to be politics. I don't consider using children as pawns to be politics.

Nobody needs to know my viewpoint on local taxes unless we're specifically talking about it.

But in today's environment, my work is already political simply because it has gay and bisexual characters in it.

Science fiction and fantasy has always been political. Heinlein's work expresses political viewpoints that include opposition to the draft and women's equality (he was crappy at writing women, but clearly believed we can keep up). Anne McCaffrey's Dragonflight is a bodice ripper that also has some interesting things to say about feudalism.

But as long as people are being politicized, I will be talking about politics. I won't stop...my goal is to make it stop *being* politics.

I'm queer. I'm Jewish. I have a uterus, although it's past its use-by date at this point.

I *am* politics. I don't want to be. But I am.