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THIS!!!!https://twitter.com/malorieblackman/status/1267737821726507009 My last novel Hotel Arcadia was deemed ‘difficult’ with the main character ‘unrelatable’ by an industry that prefers its stereotyped, and yes racist, version of
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Tbf you don’t write a socially conservative fantasies served over seven books if you are left or liberal Token brown people? Check.Foreigner, inter-racial fling? CheckAs long as they all marry
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Been thinking about how women intellectuals are described as passionate, vocal or...ugh, fierce. Even when meant as positives/compliments, these actually distract and derail from their intellectual achievements.(A thread) Also related:
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Truly horrific to see #India press spin a wonderful young actor’s suicide in terrible, feckless, traumatising, irresponsible, unethical ways to distract from the mammoth troubles facing the nation.UK govt aligned
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My talk is Empire Shoots Back: Post-coloniality in Bollywood Film https://histfest.com/products/sunny-singhAnd to give you a taster, here is a thread of some of the things I’ll be talking about. And
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This bothers me. I publish with my nickname which is often read as masculine. It helped when I was a young journo and even - I think - now.I would
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*Imagines a novel set in 1942 Nazi Germany described as an ‘entertaining story of the Holocaust, skullduggery and revenge’*See now? Slavery is SO easily diminished....the way European horrors never are.
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Always wonder why the first responses to a loss in revenue is to cut jobs rather than use the moment as an opportunity to change institutiinal direction...Don’t @ me. I
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Yep! Also it is ok to not want (or ever have wanted) children. You can have a family of your own without ever having children (or partner). You don’t need
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That Rowling statement, oh boy. But then we always knew the limits of her ‘liberal/left’ leanings Tbf you don’t write a socially conservative fantasies served over seven books if
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THREAD #3 on observations from last few weeks of #remoteteaching and the differences I am noticing between digital natives/immigrants and how they remind me of IRL migrant vs native experiences.
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#Straight couples! You’re going to make me write a “walking on the sidewalk/pavement etiquette” thread, aren’t you? #walkingintimesofcoronavirus And I am noticing particularly poor manners from the men in these
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