I wanted to throw something out there, because some have been starting to pick it up from my writings.
A long running joke among my friends is that I am a "Radically Militant Moderate". I believe in compromise, and have no strong attachment to either side politically. And am in most ways "Conservative" by inclination, but rather "Liberal" in a great many other ways.
And my writing often reflects this viewpoint. Of course, I am also almost never "in your face" about it. Instead, I write my little stories and tell my little tales, dropping little breadcrumbs here and there. And hope that some might read it again, and see the layers I had crafted, like an onion. Many not even seen until after the story is done.
I just wrote one I called "Sally the Welder". Another period piece, set during WWII. And like many, one I purposefully built into the narration, to try and cause people to explode or explore their preconceptions. And spoilers ahead, in case you want to read the story before going any farther.
One, in what is actually unusual for me I actually did do a "reveal" of the race of the narrator early on (most times it is never obvious, or much later if it is). But I have to wonder how many read the first several paragraphs, not even realizing it. Dropping a few "vague accidental clues" that the narrator became pregnant, but never saying it overtly until much later.
My family is from the South, and I have lived there. And I always hate it when bigots just assume that they are nothing but a bunch of racist rednecks. Yes, there are still some like that, but they are very much the minority. There were ALWAYS good people anywhere, that did not give a damn about race. And worked in their own ways to eliminate such behaviors. Like a doctor in my story. Who worked at 2 "Black Hospitals", one of them a teaching hospital. Yes, he has wealth and a comfortable life. But he is having to work at basically 2 jobs to do so, where other doctors likely only had to work at 1 to get the same level of success.
This to me is my "radicalism". I do not get into people faces and scream at them, it's just not my style. Instead, I craft these little stories, in the hopes that at least some who read them take a moment and actually think. I have no interest in seeing people "woke". I just want them to think for themselves, and live with open eyes, and realize that there are a great many layers. And like in an onion some layers may be rotten, most layers are just fine.