I wrote a whole book about the abuse and vitriol leveled at Black women for speaking, and while folk celebrate the book, it's truly something to be simultaneously experiencing that vitriol myself.

I am 100% unapologetic about resisting a culture that gives time and space to white authors to speak for the rest of us. I will speak on it. They shoulda been grateful I replied and didn't quote-tweet. Becuz my point wasn't to incite a dragging, but a reconsideration.

As usually happens, the cancellation was unnecessarily announced.

We need to talk about this, white folks. Why do you need to announce an action meant to DECREASE harm? What can we point to in our ugly shared history that blinds you to the virtue signaling occurring?

And what happens when a white woman virtue signals, even unconsciously, even while stating they take responsibility?

Someone comes along to print it like it's a story. Gently, with the author, of course. Despite that @PublishersWkly doesn't report on the status of ALL books.

But for some reason, an author personally cancelling their book - which again, is a private matter that didn't require an audience - is worthy of publication.

But it's incomplete, without an opponent. So w/o asking my permission, my name is included in the 1st paragraph.

My tweet is included, so that my handle is easily looked up. But since they're taking a conversation I intentionally had on twitter, in a reply thread, people have decided to reach out to chastise me in my other spaces.

Becuz my opinion isn't allowed, but theirs are.

So I just want to know who is taking responsibility for serving up Black women for abuse. Who at @PublishersWkly -- in this climate of supposedly acknowledging anti-Blackness -- is going to acknowledge this rich history of making a Black villain to defend a white woman's honor.

How long do you intend to leave that non-story up, when you attached MY name to it?

Did I just release a whole novel about how this is not what we mean by Say Her Name?!

What tf is WRONG with this world, this industry, this everything. How dare you.

And to put the finest possible fucking point on it: if you're a white woman and you choose to write and sell a book from the perspective of a Black woman, I bet you won't simultaneously experience the misogynoir leveled at Black women. Just say you want the money & not the life.

Everybody wants to be a siren, but don't nobody wanna be a siren.