So, this @DarkMatterzine /Nalini Haynes fuckery. Unless you're willing to be out about your marginalisation at all times, no matter the cost, you're not #OwnVoices - but more than HALF the piece is her complaining about how unfairly she was treated when SHE wasn't fully out?
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Replying to @fozmeadows
did you bother to read the entire essay? Also, why is it that the first I hear about your tweet @ me is on Jim Hines’s bullshit blogpost and not in my mentions? Did you block me so I couldn’t see it until now? Seriously, read the bloody essay and not just the bits he twisted.
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Replying to @DarkMatterzine
I haven’t blocked you and @‘d you in my original thread - I’ve no idea why you haven’t seen it before now. This is the first I’ve heard of Jim’s post, and yes, I read the entire essay; you might care to look at the dates and see that my thread precedes his blog.
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Replying to @fozmeadows @DarkMatterzine
Your essay is gatekeeping. It’s also racist, in that you outright say POC who’ve ever passed for white don’t get to claim ownvoices. The idea that being willing to risk employment or housing by always disclosing a disability is the bar for that disability being “real” is absurd.
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You spend six full paragraphs lamenting how badly you’ve been treated for your disability, especially when you didn’t know how to fully advocate for yourself, then turn around and say anyone else struggling to self-advocate doesn’t count. It’s mean-spirited and flat-out wrong.
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