If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.

Because Melissa McCarthy actually is a fat woman, she isnt allowed to make brash statements about body acceptance. She has to apologize for her body.

As white authors, bloggers, and readers, we must stop promoting diversity as a business opportunity or a chance to buy ally points with our disposable income.

The belief that a person can and should only feel grief over one sad event at a time is a truly disturbing estimate of our emotional capacity.

The attitude of, I will never self-publish, coming from any author, indicates that they have never been in a position where it is their only option.

If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.

One minute she acts like she wants to be with me and I'm the one rejecting her. The next, she's got this barbed wire fence and barking dogs around her, like I can't even ask her the simplest questions." "And here I was assuming you didn't care about her." Stabbing his fingers through his hair, he groaned, "I don't!" "And you make it perfectly clear." Men. Idiots.