[ SECRET POST #5042 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5042 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

This whole discourse is really counter productive.

"I want diverse stories!" "Ugh, there's way too much white/cis/straight stories!" "But it can only be #Ownvoices!"

"You're a bad person if you don't write POC/LGBT+ people." "You're a bad person if you write POC/LGBT+ people and aren't that ethnicity. You're a bad person if you write two white gays together." "You're a bad person if you write a protag that isn't white and you're not white." "You're a bad and fetishizing person if you write a non-white love interest." "You're a bad person if all characters in your novel are cis." "You're a bad person if you write trans people and are cis yourself." "You're a bad person if you write a non-white friends and neighbors and family, because they aren't the protag, so you're going into the Gay Best Friend/Black Best Friend trope."


Pick one. These discourses cannot coexist. No single author is going to be every identity. You either get only #Ownvoices with a very narrow and not diverse cast because someone doesn't want to get yelled at, or you get authors writing stories which may not be their #Ownvoice, but are diverse.

In the ideal world, the person would have it vetted and be careful to write with sensitivity.

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[(Anonymous)]

Yeah this.