I want to share a bit about what it’s been like #amquerying a YA with a Japanese MC. My rejections all share a theme, agents love my concept, but they can’t connect with “The Voice.” What voice, you ask? The not-white, Japanese voice. 1/🧵

The reality is, despite calls for diversity, publishing only embraces and connects with the white voice. Mention YA, and almost all industry pros will have a specific voice in mind. That YA voice is the voice of a teenage white girl, written by a grown white woman. 5/🧵

Unfriendly reminder that this genocide is being funded by us (the United States) 😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃

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Help a Black Transfemme get FFS gofund.me/623c42fd

One way to actively support displaced Sudanese people is by following and donating to Sudan Solidarity Collective. They're doing incredible work raising funds and partnering with various Sudanese initiatives on the ground. Donate what you can and share widely please 🙏🏾 #KeepEyesOnSudan

10 children are dying EVERY DAY in Tawila, North Darfur. #EyesOnDarfur #KeepEyesOnSudan

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Call now! Innocent man is about to be executed by the State innocenceproject.org/petitions/call…

please take the time to see the fantastic work that khartoum aid kitchen does for those in need in sudan donate and share gofund.me/32afc1cb

I know I missed the discourse on this, a lot has been going on, but #NaNoWriMo saying disabled people need generative AI to write is bullshit and I resent how often the disability community is only used as a weapon against someone else. The vast majority of people in creative

Can’t stop thinking about Lebanon. I have no words. We’re all just holding our breath waiting for the other shoe to drop, for the next disaster to hit. Evil completely off the leash, out of control. When is it enough?

Everyone is a lil too calm about the fact that Isr*el are detonating phones and laptops

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I BEG U , DONT IGNORE FOR IMPORTANCE We’re 1570£ away from our goal 🥹😭, remember I lost my father and my mom is suffering from hepatitis and wanna to evacuate her as soon as possible gofund.me/9c1e6748

help mariam and her family evacuate !! it’s been almost a year and they still haven’t been able to evacuate the genocide please give anything you can gofund.me/f2be9f40

is everyone sick right now???