Books written for mostly straight white women feature mostly straight white women??? I'm shocked!
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In 2017 27% of self identified romance readers were were POC. Having that amount of POC readers and having only 6% of bks put out by trad publishing companies written by POC is a significant disparity that should be addressed.
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Which non-Whites are going to fill the void for other non-White’s reading? A Black author won’t be read by an Asian author. And who is going to read an Indian author? But a White author will be read by the vastly larger White audience.
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WTF? People read books by authors of a different race than they are all the time. There isn't some police that goes around and says, "Hey, you're white, you can't read books by a Black woman!" Just think about how ridiculous that sounds.
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But books by White people need to be “addressed”.
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No, the fact that authors of color are significantly underrepresented needs to be addressed.
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I’m not getting this “person of color” thing. So people who have eye, hair, and skin tone colors closer to black and brown are colorful?pic.twitter.com/d7jypsHu65
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NYT shocked that white people are a majority of the population in America...
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Hetrosexual also known as Normal and Natural.
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Thank you for highlighting diverse voices and help bring them into the mainstream. I've curated an anthology of commercial fiction with 'brown' female protagonists
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The obsession with identity politics is absolutely abhorrent.
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Our stories are universal and relatable. Differences are merely skin deep
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Lol the horror!! God forbid White people who are straight write about their experiences. Why should White authors write about other races? Reason I saw this in such a charged time if that White author writes about Black Romance they’ll likely be attacked for appropriation.
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The majority of romance novels on the best-seller lists are bad and would be bad even with diverse characters. That's not the point, sorry.
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You’ve read all of them then?
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No need to. Really. It's a very easy assumption. You give people what they want and it's fine. Just don't pretend it's artistically relevant.
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Why should you pretend it's *not* artistically relevant? If you don't read them, that's perfectly fine. Why do you feel the need to comment on something you know nothing about?
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