As a Twitter user, you have every right to surround yourself with only the people YOU want around. That said, demanding people make declarations about messy, traumatizing situations in Publishing on your timeline can be pushy and inappropriate.

What you can control is what you do in reaction to, in this case, a person's silence. Unfollowing, blocking, whatever!

What you can't do is demand others perform how you want them to perform when you want them to perform. That's an ultimatum.

So, it's fine to do it, but.

"Fine" is loosely defined by a lot, including some of us being /so triggered by everything on right now/ that another word on these heavy subjects puts us actively in harm's way.

All I ask is that you consider this. That's it. You do you, I support you, but I gotta do me.

So I'm putting it out there: I've done a lot of work hauling my trauma out of the way to address the blatant and rampant inappropriateness of my industry. I get to step back for my health, or opt out of *checks* ONE fight. Two, maybe, out of a hundred.

I, nor any author or public figure, are your personal, private rage monkeys. Sorry, folks. Not what I'm interested in right now. And I am telling you, I literally CANNOT anymore for the time being. So leave me be.

And, yeah, I'm gonna add one more thing because I have one fairly good publishing friend I can directly apply this to, but white people/white passing people in particular need to look at themselves pushing WoC/AoC/PoC for performative labor.

That sucks. Don't.

(And I assure you in the case of my friend, the work that person is doing behind the scenes > saying something to satisfy people on Twitter. You don't see everything. Not all situations are best handled by DISCOURSE ON TWITTER.)