I’m literally just trying to share my insight into the past few years of trying to figure out how to navigate these pitfalls.
And as a white person working on a fantasy book with a biracial protagonist and a variety of cultures, I feel for her and I certainly don’t claim a moral high ground.
I will state this once again: I do think Veronica Roth means well-based on what I’ve heard from her before, and on how the blog post opens and is generally phrased. To everyone else reading this: I invite you to read her blog post, for the sake of fairness. If somehow Ms Roth comes across this post…hopefully she can learn a thing from it. I’m not trying to have a conversation with Veronica Roth-I don’t think it would be very constructive, and as someone who doesn’t think authors should generally argue with their critics, I am not making this post in an attempt to bait her into doing that exact thing. The main source of what I’m going to be discussing here is this post from her blog, but this isn’t really a response to it or a breakdown of it, or even really a rebuttal. See, I wasn’t the only one to read racial connotations in that text, and Veronica Roth, a woman who every signs points to being pretty well-meaning and progressive, felt the need to address it. Remember Carve the Mark? Let’s talk about it again while we wait for me to get through my massive pile of work to do so I can get around to reading the sequel. So this post’s about a year in the making, which I think makes it my biggest act of procrastination on this blog-possibly in my entire life, although there’s another strong contender I still need to deal with right now.īut yeah.
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