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The Problems #ownvoices Doesn't Solve
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The Problems #ownvoices Doesn't Solve

Whether use the word #ownvoices or not, we should pay attention to the problems that made it necessary - and the problems that are leading many to drop it again.

Ada Hoffmann
Jun 22, 2021
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The Problems #ownvoices Doesn't Solve
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(This essay is an expanded version of this Twitter thread.)

I'm still chewing over the talk Book Twitter had this month about #ownvoices. A major review website, "We Need Diverse Books," decided to stop using the #ownvoices label to describe works of fiction about marginalized characters by authors who share that marginalization, because the label has go…

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