And the challenges that they face have parallels to the real world, but it’s not the same as ours.” But it was also very important to me to set this in a fictional world. I really wanted to highlight a lot of the social issues that come along with the Westerns like race issues and gender issues, and talk about class and queerness. Of this challenge, Davis said: “Getting that balancing act was probably the hardest part. Many would view these aims as counter productive, but Davis felt getting both right was important. The other was to show readers with these identities that they belong in the adventure stories that have traditionally been assigned solely to white men. One was to write a fantasy story highlighting injustices of racism, sexism, and biases against queerness people face in our world. When Charlotte Nicole Davis set out to write The Good Luck Girls, she had two goals in mind.
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