In all this discourse, I have yet to see a white author arguing about who gets to write what answer this:

No matter how well you think you can write POC povs, do you think you can write them *better* than POC authors can?

Do you think you can write our POVs better than we can?

Genuine question. If you’re going to shoulder your way into the conversation and insist on your god-given right to write whatever the hell you want, I’d like you to answer the above. Do you or do you not think you can write us better than we write ourselves?

If your honest answer is no, you believe you cannot and will never be able to write a POC perspective as well as a POC author of that specific ethnicity can, then consider that when you go ahead and do it anyway, you are using your white privilege to take a space away from us.

As a white author, you are going to be given more opportunities. 90% of the time, a publisher will buy your book rather than ours. So by writing our perspective, you’re taking that space from us. And you’re doing it while acknowledging you won’t do it as well as we would.

So ask yourself if that’s what you want to do. And if it is, ask yourself why you’re so shitty https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤷🏻‍♀️" title="Achselzuckende Frau (heller Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Achselzuckende Frau (heller Hautton)">

Now, on the other hand, if your honest answer to the question of whether you think you can write our perspectives as well as we can is yes, you deffo think you can, then all I can say to you is thishttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👇" title="Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten" aria-label="Emoji: Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten">