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22 February 2016

## 'Sense8' - More Than Just Affirmative Action

 Welcome to the future of storytelling, or rather, an accurate depiction of the world in which we are all living. Sense8, the original series on Netflix written by The Wachowskis and J. Michael Straczynski, achieved something significant. It proved to Hollywood that we don’t need affirmative action in media, but rather compelling roles that accurately reflect the world. From the studios’ producing the small-screen science fiction drama (which I don’t know if science…