I am drawn to borderlands and to the people who inhabit them: marginal natives, newcomers, travelers, people who don’t fit and who therefore have an interestingly slanted view of the cultures they inhabit. Remember: I was an anthropologist long before I was a novelist. We are trained to seek out marginal natives; no one can give you a better perspective on aspects of culture that statistically normal people simply accept as, well, normal.
via io9.com
I love this quote from author Mary Doria Russell — particularly the term, “marginal native.”
Gay people spend a great deal of their lives as marginal natives: part of a pervasive heterosexual culture, but distanced from it … citizens of it, but living on its edge.
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