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Is she, or isn’t she? And does it matter anyway?
The moment young Amilyn Holdo uttered a link describing being attracted only to humanoind males as being “limiting” (yes, in italics, because that’s how it was done in the novel Leia, Princess of Alderaan by Claudia Gray), the internet came alive. Especially since that character will appear in The Last Jedi, portrayed by Laura Dern.
On today’s podcast, I’m putting the exchange Holdo has with Leia in context with the rest of the novel, and with the broader Star Wars canon, and giving as much of an answer to the question as we can possibly arrive at, based on what the novel gives us.