#marginalized representation

[alittleannihilati0n]

Thinking about how much more secure and legitimate I would be able to feel in my identity and sense of self if I had had like any trans representation in mainstream media growing up. Man, we got screwed over

[minoritiesinpublishing]

White bro reading: Yes, I’m reading men and women equally — but they’re still mostly white

We need more than a VIDA-style count for writers of color—we need to confront the implicit whiteness of Literature

“I can interrogate and trouble the ways whiteness has been projected onto me, how these projections have enabled and empowered but also hindered me, and how, more damningly, I have internalized the mask of whiteness in my literary work. I can join that ongoing conversation, which means more, Peter would no doubt tell me, than reading the contemporary commentators. I can do all this, moreover, not in the acquisitive fashion of a boy scout working toward his diversity merit badge, one step among many on the well-meaning road toward white enlightenment. I can read more broadly out of the realization that my casualness and comfort, the serendipity and unconsciousness with which I’ve moved through my literary life, are not actually ends in themselves, and indeed may not even be worthwhile. I can work harder, in part through my reading, at valuing the lives and voices of people of color. I can track and confront those places where my whiteness (and yours) rears its head, where it silences and marginalizes others.”