"Narratives that use robots and androids to represent the Other often don’t interrogate the assumptions about humanity at their core because they fail to answer one question:
Why are so many androids white?"

Read the rest of my essay "Androids and Allegory" at Twelfth Planet Press.

Edit: changed link to HTTP, hopefully that solves the problem!

http://motherofinvention.twelfthplanetpress.com/2018/07/02/androids-and-allegory/

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