My Hollywood screenwriter uncle refused to give me any level of help in my own writing career, including an interview in a studio’s mail room. He insists he made it on his own merits, and I guess I should too.

Problem is, he didn’t. Aside from being white and male and able/bodied etc, he was the stepson of a famous stand up comic. He got in through nepotism, not talent.

Meanwhile, my every marginalized category aside from being white self made my writing career happen myself.