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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree that it's entitled behavior. But should her BOOK be cancelled as a result?

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She used her minority status to book interviews talking about being marginalized and discriminated against. Yet she called out another minority woman on the train and tagged her employer at the same time. Did she out any of the white commuters regularly drinking starbucks on the train?

[b]The Complicated Reality of a Minority Writer[/b]

A writer of color is the label that currently defines my literary persona. Whether I like it or not, that’s who I am in the eyes of many in the writing community. Am I a writer of color? What color exactly?

Born in Amman, Jordan, a fairly homogeneous city where we called ourselves Jordanians, Arabs, I never thought of myself as any color. I’m not white, brown or black. I was what I was. I had to fly thousands of miles to the U.S. to discover my brownness. To describe my skin color as olive, and my eyes as almond. To explain my ethnicity every time I opened my mouth and people heard my accent.

As I embarked on writing They Called Me Wyatt, a novel set between Jordan and the U.S., which explores societal challenges faced by women and what it means to defy your cultural norms, I slowly started to embrace my label as a writer of color.

https://www.writersdigest.com/online-editor/damned-if-i-do-damned-if-i-dont-the-complicated-reality-of-a-minority-writer[/quote]

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