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Author, fanwriter, trash bandit, queer geek feminist, dork. Jack of all pronouns, mxtress of none. Yells about hockey. Aussie in the US.

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    Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 21 Jan 2020

    Can someone explain the American Dirt thing to me? I keep seeing it on my TL but my only context cue is “author is presumably some flavour of trash”.

    7:27 PM - 21 Jan 2020
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    • sarah Jenny Alexandra Rowland (they/them) ✨ J'ai le cafard. Stephanie Leary Rowena Sela Carsen Elaine Cuyegkeng ✨meg frank (they/them) ✨
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      2. She, The Retweeter  ✍️ 😷 ☕‏ @GhostCatLady 21 Jan 2020
        Replying to @fozmeadows

        White author (who conveniently suddenly popped out a Puerto Rican grandma when called out) got a 7-figure advance to write a cheesy novel about the plight of Mexican immigrants, full of cliches that were old in the 1950s, and said things in interviews like "I wish there had been

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      3. She, The Retweeter  ✍️ 😷 ☕‏ @GhostCatLady 21 Jan 2020
        Replying to @GhostCatLady @fozmeadows

        a brown author to write it" (as in be the Voice for these Poor People), when there have been and are hundreds, thousands even, of Mexican and Mexican-American authors available.

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      2. Nunya Business‏ @MarySueSays 21 Jan 2020
        Replying to @fozmeadows

        She got a seven figure advance and a movie deal for writing about Mexican border experience and she's a white lady.

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      3. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 21 Jan 2020
        Replying to @MarySueSays

        YIKE

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      2. Stephanie Leary‏ @sleary 21 Jan 2020
        Replying to @fozmeadows

        “trauma porn with a social justice fig leaf” https://tropicsofmeta.com/2019/12/12/pendeja-you-aint-steinbeck-my-bronca-with-fake-ass-social-justice-literature/ … written by a white woman who is now claiming to have a Puerto Rican grandma.

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      3. Stephanie Leary‏ @sleary 21 Jan 2020
        Replying to @sleary @fozmeadows

        Stephanie Leary Retweeted Wendy C. Ortiz

        Also, there’s this:https://twitter.com/WendyCOrtiz/status/1219647267373637632 …

        Stephanie Leary added,

        Wendy C. Ortiz @WendyCOrtiz
        if you’re just now following, hi, I wrote a memoir that was roundly rejected by the traditional publishing industry more than 20 times but which has sold as well as it could without the machine of the publishing industry, making me a “small press bestseller”—and yet
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      1. Heidi Butters-Stabb‏ @heidi_reads 21 Jan 2020
        Replying to @fozmeadows

        Heidi Butters-Stabb Retweeted Jen Soriano

        https://twitter.com/lionswrite/status/1219704252928446464?s=21 … This link has a good summary.

        Heidi Butters-Stabb added,

        Jen Soriano @LionsWrite
        The @seattlereviewof books just published a recap on the controversy over American Dirt from Mexican-Filipina-American writer @DonnaMiscolta https://seattlereviewofbooks.com/notes/2020/01/21/the-dirt-on-american-dirt … via @seattlereviewof
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      1. Django Wexler‏ @DjangoWexler 21 Jan 2020
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        Pretty good recap from Slate: https://slate.com/culture/2020/01/american-dirt-book-controversy-explained.html …

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