I'm not particularly familiar with urban fantasy or paranormal romance (though I think I read a lot of books that are on the edge of or maybe in the genre), but I wanted to let you know how much I appreciated this post, and the comments, which are utterly full of win. I think a lot of what you have to say applies to other genres, especially those that are somehow built or premised on escapism, and the flattening of all of us to this one white/cis/owner-class/straight/thin norm in this context is very disturbing.