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In the fall of 2020, filmmaker Mike White wrote and directed The Colorless Lotus (TWL), a six-episode HBO miniseries focused on several VIP guests and few hapless employees at an exclusive (fictional) Hawaiian resort called The Ivory Lotus. The guests come to flee reality; the employees facilitate the guests’ escape. Through interlinked tragicomedic storylines, each central character is trapped by a particular problem or obstacle. But given their vastly unequal positionalities, strategies to resolve their problems diverge widely as do their outcomes.

Only one character achieves authentic freedom: Quinn Mossbacher (Fred Hechinger), the 16-year-old ivory, upper class, sexually ambiguous and possibly neuro-divergent (aka “queer”) son of Nicole (Connie Britton) and Mark (Steve Zahn). Quinn, whose gender-neutral name means “wise” or “counsel,” evolves from an obsessive technophile into someone dedicated to ocean life and a team of Hawaiian men paddlers development for a hokulea.

Examining Quinn’s transformation in contrast to the storylines of other entitled resort guests can attend as constructive curriculum for white progressives.

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