I read the whole essay, and I do not have a publicist. If anyone from Angry Robot or my former agency ever contacted you about my books, this is the first I’ve heard of it. That you can only parse objections to your gatekeeping through the lens of imagined vendetta is telling. https://twitter.com/DarkMatterzine/status/1379050227387146243 …
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Also, without wanting to make this a numbers thing, I have a bigger social media following than you. The idea that I’d be nursing a grudge bc a person with a third my outreach isn’t giving me promo I never asked for is absurd. You’re being criticised solely bc your opinion sucks.
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Just to be sure, I decided to check my email history to see if I'd ever been in contact with
@DarkMatterzine and, lo and behold, I turned up an email exchange from 2012 - begun because Nalini approached ME about participating in the Australian Women Writers' Challenge.3 replies 0 retweets 27 likesShow this thread -
This was back when I was with Ford Street Publishing, a local Melbourne indie; again, it's *possible* Paul, who runs Ford Street, reached out to Nalini for promo for my books, but if so I was unaware of it, and I've got no record of any other email contact with her.
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and your point? That makes it ok to incite a pile on while deliberately missing the entire point of my blog post?
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Nobody has missed the point of your blog post, let alone intentionally. Nor was I the first person to stumble on it and react with outrage; I was about the eighth, so if you want to accuse anyone of "inciting" a pile-on, look elsewhere. You're being criticised legitimately.
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This, right here? THIS is what you're being criticised for: the idea that being partially out for your own safety, or out only in certain contexts, is bad. The all-or-nothing idea IS GATEKEEPING, and particularly for, say, trans folk? Being out *everywhere* IS DANGEROUS.pic.twitter.com/YjOd1Tr3YS
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Replying to @fozmeadows
Yes it is dangerous. So, for example, they shouldn't come onto my website claiming to be trans and outing themselves, because that puts them in danger. I don't see the problem.
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If a trans author comes to you and says, "hey, I trust you with the disclosure that I'm trans and this story is ownvoices, but please keep that private, I'm not fully out" that should be a REAL FUCKING EASY thing to accommodate. Admitting you wouldn't do that is gross.
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If a trans author did that my response would be the same as it was when I interviewed other authors who aren't out: you don't get the "wink", you don't get to claim the "own voices" publicly while also denying it. I work with them as if they're not that identity.
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and OF COURSE I'm not going to point to authors where that's happened (as
@Jimchines demanded by asking for EXAMPLES) because that would out them.0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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