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"queer content by queer creators" is the laaaaaaaaast hill I will die on, especially in books
You can& #39;t just take the "POC content by POC creators" discourse and plaster it across other marginalizations. It doesn& #39;t work like that.
like...I& #39;m a queer guy who works in children& #39;s publishing. the issues facing queer books within the industry are very different from the issues POC books face
With queer books, the internal obstacles are often rooted in censorship--"we think this is a great book, but we& #39;re scared it won& #39;t sell in the midwest"--and as those sayings are proven untrue, it becomes easier to sell queer books, especially by white authors
There& #39;s not some flood of non-queer authors writing queer YA books for easy money. What there IS, is a lot of queer people discovering their queerness through writing, and other queers gatekeeping them
You don& #39;t need to prove your queerness to anyone in order to write a queer book. And no matter what, there& #39;s always some queers out there who claim you& #39;re not queer *enough* to count--ignore them
What frustrates me is how this is always applied under cissexist lines. The assumption “true” queerness only exists as dimorphic shades of gay/lesbian identity. Looking at someone’s profile picture and assuming that tells you what books they *should* write
