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This is an an incredible work of analysis and journalism into Coldiron's reviews (the person who wrote the reviews I QRT'd last night). Read it, but know it is an emotionally taxing read about unexamined racism and microaggressions. https://twitter.com/fozmeadows/status/1359438015244816384
This is the reviewer's reply to this article in particular. It goes exactly the way you think. Also she gives it to the wrong person. https://twitter.com/ferrifrigida/status/1359534332843462656?s=19
Thread about reviewer responsibility: https://twitter.com/AdriJjy/status/1359493826134630408?s=19
Thread about saying the phrase "I was the wrong reviewer" when applied in this situation: https://twitter.com/keikiakapueo/status/1359548695759343619?s=19
If you are following this story, please understand that this is about more than one thing. Yes, this is about a racist pattern in a white reviewer who has gone unchecked by her editors and herself. I am not seeing a real reckoning in her response so far.
This is also about a system that privileges a certain type of reviewing, voice, and standard, all of which have been set into stone by white people in power of our literature, and other forms of media and art.
And they have not realized that those stones have become dust.
And they have not realized that those stones have become dust.
So whether you are a fan, a blogger, a paid reviewer -- I encourage you to think about the system in which you work, and how you can show the people around you that look: it's all dust.
Commit to making something better.
Commit to making something better.
Extremely important thread that goes into this, and about the lack of commitment to BIPOC stories https://twitter.com/therisingtithes/status/1359557745708589058?s=19
