TinTower posted:

Splash Attack posted:

the washington examiner comparing blood heir to american dirt is also extremely disengenous because the author for blood heir actually pulled back her book's publication, sat down and worked with her editor to make sure that the offending human trafficking and indentured servitude parts weren't racially tone deaf (she'd written it based on her experience and knowledge of asia's human trafficking and slave trading, and didn't realize how it would sound to american readers), then sent it out to be reviewed by sensitivity groups and scholars to make sure that she wasn't being racist as gently caress.

i highly doubt anything like that was done for american dirt lol.

there wolf posted:

Why do we still have caucuses anyway? Just have an election like normal states.

Ambitious Spider posted:

Yea. I'm not one to think that you cant write about something that you didn't experience first hand, but you should probably do your homework, and also not plagiarize said homework.


Looks like it's happening again with another book called My Dark Vanessa: https://slate.com/culture/2020/01/my-dark-vanessa-book-controversy-explained-american-dirt.html

AlbieQuirky posted:

Her grandmother was Puerto Rican, not Mexican or Central American, in any case.

When the publisher sent out the review copies, they highlighted that Cummins’s husband was an undocumented immigrant at one time, but didn’t explain that he was a visa overstayer from Ireland

Also, a character calls his mother “abuela”. No, she does not have any grandchildren.

Platystemon posted:

Is a visa not a document?

He’s an illegal immigrant, yes, but a documented one nonetheless.

There’s also the issue that overstaying a visa is a civil matter, unlike crossing the border without permission, which is an actual crime.

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FirstAidKite posted:

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Admiral Joeslop posted:

FirstAidKite posted:

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Brawnfire posted:

Yeah that stood out to me as well.

"They're trying to CANCEL this."

*examples of criticism*

"Instead of SJW BOOK BURNINGS why not just do what anyone else does when they read a book they dislike, and criticize it? Instead of this"

*example of criticism*

"and this histrionic bullshit"

*example of extremely restrained criticism from Latin American community*

"Guess we can't just have a discussion anymore."

PetraCore posted:

Haha oh my god, I thought that screech owl one was bad because I didn't know off the top of my head either but it sounded like a cultural thing you could pretty easily google or ask someone about, but the abuela bit is literally worse than a 14 year old who completed one semester of high school spanish lessons.

Yeah, this is what I'm saying! I don't think it's wrong for people to write outside of their own personal experience and that should extend further than just 'not all my characters are white', but at the same time if you're going to grapple with something complex and sensitive like that, you do your research, you consult people willing to help you and credit them, and you edit edit edit. It's basic writing craft as much as it is basic human decency, but there's a lot of people who feel like they can get away with just banging out bullshit because the audience they're aiming for, in this case middle class white people whose biggest interaction with Latinx is a Taco Bell, won't know or care enough to push back. It's not writing to change anyone's minds or educate them, it's writing to get a quick buck by capitalizing off an actual issue and stepping on more educated and informed people to do so.

But also now I kind of want to read an in-depth list of everything this book super hosed up, I only really knew about it from the horrid barbed wire chic decorations.

FirstAidKite posted:

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Memento posted:

T-man posted:

One of the best known books on trans people is a wife's tale of how ~hard~ it is that her wife transitioned and how good she was for not leaving her and poo poo. There's also a sequel iirc.

Which is the vibe you get from like 70%+ of cis-made media with trans stuff in it these days admittedly.

quote:

At the beginning of this year, the science fiction and fantasy magazine Clarkesworld published a short story called “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter” by Isabel Fall. The story, which appears to be Fall’s debut, follows the first “somatic female” to undergo “tactical-role gender reassignment” surgery. She becomes, more or less literally, an Army helicopter. “When I was a woman I wanted my skin to be as smooth and dark as the sintered stone countertop in our kitchen,” the narrator says. “Now my skin is boron-carbide and Kevlar.”

Knormal posted:

Seems like appropriate timing for this story to have shown up on my Google News page.

https://www.wired.com/story/attack-helicopter-meme-sci-fi-story/

Fatty Crabcakes posted:

Will no one rid me of that turbulent piece?

Skwirl posted:

I wanna know what comedian, so I can check out her special and follow her on Twitter.

Platystemon posted:

Is a visa not a document?

He’s an illegal immigrant, yes, but a documented one nonetheless.

There’s also the issue that overstaying a visa is a civil matter, unlike crossing the border without permission, which is an actual crime.

nerdz posted:

She's Kate Willet and that tweet about her is ironic. Her boyfriend died of something he could have diagnosed if he did have healthcare, so that's her cause

https://twitter.com/RepTimRyan/status/1224889867798224896

gently caress you, wrestling is less rigged than the dem primaries

Elviscat posted:

My loving barber had this on when I was getting my hair cut, she kept giggling about how mad Pelosi must be, apparently the audible teeth grinding didn't alert her to my view on the subject. More than the 10 straight minutes of ridiculous lies, I just HATE hearing him speak, it grinds my gears in a way that George Warcriminal Bush just didn't.

Kuros posted:

So you're firing her right?

chitoryu12 posted:

Skwirl posted:

You don't fire a barber, you just stop using them. You're a client, not a boss.

AlbieQuirky posted:

“Undocumented” is generally used to refer to all people without current, valid documents. It was also the word Flatiron Press used to refer to Ms. Cummins’ husband.

I don’t see what point you’re making with the civil/criminal distinction, unless to underscore that Ms. Cummins’ husband’s experience has zero in common with her protagonist’s. Which, yeah.