The thing is I see this type of call out all the time at the minute. Journalists put out #journorequest & within them say ‘but I mostly want to hear from minority voices’ Which is great but ‘minority voices’ want to write their own stories too.
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It’s complex too like there are so many cultural unknowns and misconceptions. I replied to a request looking for BAME travel writer then they said write about your childhood holidays and I was like I’m Bangladeshi we didn’t go on holidays but then they wouldn’t know that.
Ugh that sucks. I do think editors in general should be spending more time developing relationships with writers where they don’t go “we need a person of colour to write about x” but instead go “what would you like to write about?” And say yes to whatever the they respond with
