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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]By centering so much of this conversation on Ng and Gay, we miss how many WOC have publicly acknowledged Dorland. One Twitter comment from a Black woman said early on, "I hate Sonya Larson because she made me side with an annoying white woman," which made me laugh. Some may have been more quiet. I checked the likes for some authors, and one prominent AAPI writer who is friends with Ng was liking tweets in favor of Dorland and kidney donation.

Ng and Gay are loud, but do not let them dominate the conversation, nor speak universally. If we are asking WOC to see that not all white women are the same, we also have to respect that not all Asian women are the same. Not all Black women are the same. While they certainly are happy to push buttons, both Ng and Gay are both married to white people, so I am fairly certain they see nuance. Maybe their online reactions stem from deep hurt; I know that Gay has had people ask weirdly about a chair size and someone assumed she was a maid at her own house - that's really shitty. While I think what Ng did was shitty, I also believe that she must be pretty sad/hurt for whatever reason to engage in such sustained vitriol. I also think it's fine to feel that they aren't your type, and that you won't buy books from them in the future. I've decided that myself. But, precisely because there are so many WOC voices out there. Someone pointed out the Mikki Kendall was tweeting favorably about Dorland, and if that makes you happy, then buy her book Hood Feminism (which is great and all white women should read). We need to help amplify the voices we want to hear![/quote]

I'm the PP that wrote the "on racism" post above and I agree with most* of this, especially the endorsement of Mikki Kendall. [I]Hood Feminism[/I] is a terrific book. I also now admire Kendall's strength of character even more: early on, very early on, she broke apart from the rest of the blue checks on this matter

And let's be absolutely clear on this: it is flat-out racist to treat WOC as a monolith. I'm never buying a book from Ng or Gay again, but I will also never buy a book by Castellani or Kolker again either (and I am an avid consumer of books). Centering this on Ng and Gay (and especially Gay since she was only secondarily involved as far as we know now) without including Castellani, Kolker, Murphy, Cheek, Scharer, etc. is itself a racist approach.

* I don't agree with the part about Ng and Gay's hurt, not that I think it isn't possibly true, but because it is speculative. [/quote]

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