To begin, what is "censorship," exactly? In the format we're concerned with, there are two main definitions ...

Fiction can be a lot of things: a true depiction of the societies in which we live, a utopia, a dystopia, a means by which to cope with personal traumas, generational traumas, or societal traumas, a reflection, a character study, simple good old-fashioned erotica, or something else entirely. In all of these, there is one common thing to keep in mind: people are writing what they know, want to know, or want you to know.

First of all, what is queer flagging? What is its productive usefulness in society?

We've been having this argument for over twenty years. Twenty-four, to be exact.

"Queer" is a hard thing to define. And that is a good thing. Let's start with the dictionary definition.

COVID-19 is an airborne novel SARS-coronavirus. 'Novel' refers to not having been observed in an environment. SARS stands for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, which is a viral respiratory disease caused by SARS-coronaviruses. A coronavirus is any of a family of viruses which infect animals (including humans), and whose genomes consist of a single strand of RNA. COVID-19, specifically, is a novel coronavirus that is known to cause a viral respiratory disease (the acute phase) as well as vascular complications (vasculopathy) when the acute phase ends.