In our quest for authenticity and honest representation, we must must must be careful about dragging people out of closets. It is not always safe for everyone to be out, not everyone is ready the moment we want them to be. Let us not repeat mistakes of the past.

A few related things;
- few authors write their own marketing copy
- no one owes you their health status
- disabled authors should always seek consultations when writing outside their own disability even if there's overlapping experiences

this is not a subtweet, to be clear. i've said as much before. my stance has always been that disclosing disability, queerness, transness are intensely private and tricky. not all of us are at the same level of comfort and safety. we need to be cautious when demanding proof.

i wanted to repeat this only because i'm a person who talks a lot about representation and am as open a book as a broken-spined over-read paperback can be, but i do not want representation at the cost of safety and i am continuously nervous about that possibility