[ SECRET POST #5371 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5371 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

This is probably a dumb question, but is a book only Own Voices when the author and the MC of the story are of the same race or ethnic background? Judging by the reviews for this book, it seems that the author has the same chronic illness as the MC, except it shouldn't count as Own Voices because the author's white and the MC's South Asian, so I'm just wondering about that.

[tei]

well… that’s just the thing, isn’t it? nobody can decide on one single definition for what books qualify as being “own voices.”

[(Anonymous)]

From talks I've seen it's difficult to class something as 'own voices' rep if the character doesn't represent all of you (whether in ethnicity, sexuality, neurology etc) but it's not impossible.

There seems to be a lot of wiggle room about what classifies as own voices, especially if someone is not 'out' about an aspect of their life, because the great thing about being a writer is some level of anonymity sometimes.

[(Anonymous)]

In practice, yes. It's only Own Voices if the author is the same race and ethnicity as the character. Illnesses, mental and physical disabilities, and even sexual orientation and gender identity if it comes down to it, are all secondary.

For example, Leigh Bardugo says she considers Kaz from Six of Crows her wish fulfillment character because she also has a major physical disability and she wanted to write a main character who was badass along with his disability, not in spite of it.

But she's white and some of the other main characters in those books aren't, so according to woke book fandom, they fail the Own Voices test and are an example of how diverse books written by white people shouldn't get attention, because remember, "diversity" is only about race.