Twenty Years Countdown: Stories Striving for Inclusion
By: Andrew Bermudez (Mustache Maniacs Film Co. Headquarters; June 10, 2023) It's now June, with half of the year to go before the start of Twenty Years Young , so we're going to start counting down by taking a moment to look at some of our upcoming projects and, in this case, how we're going to reinforce our commitments from 2020! The Holy Land Paragon and Gertrude and Lily : Twin Tales of Adventure, Race, Cultural Identity, and Gender When it was first announced on February 1, 2021, the book The Holy Land Paragon acted as a sort-of narrative shift for us. True, adventure stories are far from novel for us, and we've written several short stories in the past, but how this would play out is taking a new turn. For starters, the characters were determined from the get-go to be ethnically diverse, ranging from Hispanics to Jewish intellectuals, a black professor, and more. The book doesn't comment as much on this topic however as it does on questions re