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for. fuck's. sake. Now @clarkesworld has removed the attack helicopter story and put up a note saying "This story has been removed by request of the author. An official statement will be posted here soon."

You know what? I'm fucking done with this bullshit drama.
@clarkesworld None of this was necessary. None of it.

And now we have a bunch of people fighting and getting hurt over what was not that good of a story.

I am so deeply disappointed in Neil Clarke and some of the rest of you right now I can't.
@clarkesworld And while I'm at it, fuck this bullshit, too.

@clarkesworld I have an essay I need to write about authors and trust and how that trust works with stories that tackle issues of marginalized identity.

I also feel like we need to talk about how the way some authors (like Carmen) are defending this story sets off my spidey senses.
@clarkesworld From the tenor of their defenses I think they know who this author is and I think the way they've been attempting to defend this story is super disingenuous. I'm so grossed out by so many people I usually like.
@clarkesworld But I also have a ton of work to do and I can't be on Twitter all day so I'm going to leave you with this thread:

and this tweet

and this thread

and this tweet

and this thread

and this thread

That's all for now.
I'm back to add more threads to this thread.

another thread

and in case you didn't read this one from Bogi earlier.

And this

And this, which was in reply to me.

In case you haven't sensed the theme, I'm almost 100% uninterested in cis takes on this story and I'm learning a great deal from listening to trans, nonbiary, genderqueer, agender, and other folks who aren't cis.
couple more threads. this one from an editor at strange Horizons:

and another from Alexandra Erin

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K Tempest is revising her middle grade rn, I swear
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This is my last twitter thread of the day I swear b/c I *need* to get some work done. However, I want to do this one before I forget.

Courtney laid out some *excellent* action items in this thread. They're intended to be sure that Black women are given the same opportunities...
...in romance publishing/community that others get. She's not just stating things others have to do, but ways that she will hold herself accountable and use her clout to work toward an even playing field.

It's an excellent list. It needs to be a template for y'all in SFF as well
If big name white writers were to adopt some of these same actions -- modified for the particular circumstances -- and actually follow through on them over the course of years and not just when Twitter is paying attention, it would have a real impact on our genre & community.
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K Tempest is revising her middle grade rn, I swear
@tinytempest
Despite my not wanting to do this Looking back At The Decade thing, I was sitting here thinking about the defining moments of 2009, 1999, etc., thanks to that @lizzo post.

One of the things that comes immediately to mind from 2009 is RaceFail.
It happened in January of that year, so in January of this year several people approached me (and other folks who were involved) asking if we'd be interested in a look back at it. I said no. A few people I know said no.
One of the reasons I said no is that a Look Back would imply that RaceFail ended and there's a legacy. Yet, in some significant ways, RaceFail has not ended nor been resolved, and a whole bunch of people did not learn from it despite the efforts of BIPOC in SFF lit.
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*pinches bridge of nose* Are we really still doing this?

I just... how can... aaaaauuugggghhh

okay, a thread.
As this person points out, this kind of nonsense is a regular occurrence.

I honestly cannot remember how many times I've come across an article that says this same basic thing about any number of bits of indigenous or ancient knowledge.

[Ancient people] did [thing] and for years scientists (read: Western scientists) dismissed it until they did tests!
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Publick Universal Effbian
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I read the "I identify as an attack helicopter" story and it sucks. It's transphobic, yes, but it sucks in a way that leads me to think the entire point of the story is transphobic messaging. A more detailed breakdown follows.
Firstly, the basic setup of the story (I don't give a fuck about spoiling it) is that in the future, the US military offers gender theory classes that brainwash people into believing their gender is that of the aircraft they pilot or crew to make them better at operating it.
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Now that ICE has responded, I want to offer some context on the death of Johana Medina, the transgender asylum seeker from El Salvador who was in ICE custody for two months before dying at a hospital June 1.
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Kim Taehyung, the strict CEO of KTH Entertainment, got involved in a scandal when the camera took some pictures of him with a rival entertainment's idol, Jeon Jeongguk. So imagine the stress of people meddling in his personal life and his huge secret.

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