The idea that you can't write an ownvoices coming out story if you're not 100% out to everyone because you haven't had "the full experience," as though there's only one universal way to enter The Community? LITERALLY FUCK OFF INTO THE SUN.
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UGH. Anyway! We now return you to your regularly scheduled whatever.
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sorry she’s STRAIGHT? and thinks she gets an opinion on this??
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OH BOY DOES SHE EVER. her original blog post also said the same about POC who pass as white and Muslims who pass as non-Muslim, to take two examples. so like. BIGGEST POSSIBLE FUCKING YIKES.
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So she thinks say ... Oscar Wilde doesn't get to count as an authentic queer voice? I am sorry but no. We are also keeping Emily Dickinson too now that we can see what someone else erased. Setting standards like this is just a way to reduce the queer cannon and I will not.
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Also, a lot of us (me included) wrote our way out of the closet. Becky Albertalli is another example though I wish people hadn't hounded her into it. It's only THROUGH the art that we can imagine our futures. So miss me with this "If you've never come out you can't write a >
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It just doesn't make any sense. There's queer experience in *being* closeted. Out isn't (heh) a binary situation. There's so many layers to it. I can't understand how she expects writers to ever trust her with their work.
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WAIT SHE'S STRAIGHT???? I've been raising my eyebrows at this from a distance and I just assumed she was a babby queer spouting off exclusionist nonsense but in top of all that she's STRAIGHT??? Oh honey, what a bad look.
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