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Look, all I’m saying is, as someone who has one white parent and IS biracial, there’s so much stuff that can fuck you up and it’s a much more nuanced experience than “white but with a little spice” which is what seemed to have happened again
I grew up so hungry for representation and never found it. I grew up so desperate to assimilate into the white majority culture here because I didn’t want to be different. I closed myself off to part of who I was for a very long time.
I spent most of grad school finally coming to terms with what I’d done. Heavily researched what it meant to be biracial and part of the Asian diaspora. Did projects and papers on it. Spent most of my waking hours dissecting every little thing I did
And now that I’m writing my own stories I’m still so scared that I’m going to fuck something up, but I owe it to myself—and to kids like me—who never saw themselves in stories and took that as a sign that they weren’t worth being there in the first place
It feels like I’m going to spend the rest of my life making up for the fact that I distanced myself from my Filipino heritage as a kid. And that, no matter how hard I try, it will never be enough. I’ll never be enough
So when white authors roll in and create a biracial MC for whatever reason—and then can’t acknowledge that actual harm was caused in that portrayal, they’re just perpetuating these same systems over and over again. All the stories that told me I didn’t belong.
There are so many kids that need stories with biracial MCs. But if you’re just using the character’s identity as a prop or excuse to do problematic shit, I ask that you really ask yourself why your MC needs to be biracial in the first place. It’s the same discussion we’ve been
having over and over so much—especially when it comes to race—and I just want to know when it will all stop and I won’t have to go on another rant about this in a couple of months.
Also lmao @ that apology, specifically, for displacing the blame onto sensitivity readers. If you write something problematic, there’s only so much that sensitivity readers can do. They aren’t things to prop and hide behind like “See? I tried” 
Also also please look up Orientalism and think about WHY the author made the choices she did in terms of the main character’s race and how her worldbuilding happened 
