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 yet, you outed a queer author who told you explicitly that they weren't out. You put that detail on your website and refused to remove it when asked.
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Excuse me??? She asked me to remove material where she said I outed her so I removed the review and removed her from the podcast where she outed herself by claiming to talk for the queer community. Any statement otherwise is defamatory.
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