The Importance of Marginalization in Science Fiction

In all of these books Octavia is really talking about how we carry our marginalizations with us. And from that place trying to figure out who is my family like there you she's really teasing out the whole question of whether or not there could be such a thing as a family of origin for someone who has special powers, right? What then and therefore does it matter if your family of origin is a space of trauma for you? I love that. This idea that Duro can't even love, right? Like much less create family like he did on Jan Wu.