![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingScholastic wanted to feature my book, but ONLY if I censored the word RACISM from the author's note.
https://twitter.com/emteehall/status/1645907176421224448
While I stand with the author, I also totally get where the publisher is coming from, especially based on the screenshot included with the tweet. I'm not saying I agree with the publisher! But I get it.
As a sidenote, I do my best to scrub any possible controversy from my own published work, definitely including any instances of the words "racism," "gender," and "violence." I've sometimes had to get really creative about this, to be honest. I also conceal a lot of things I want to say in hyperlinks to essays that other people have written. Clearly this isn't ideal, but I just wanted to point out that there can actually be a great deal of thought and consideration that goes into these sorts of cost-benefit analyses. That being said, sometimes publishers aren't as sensitive as they could be, which definitely seems to be the case in this particular instance.
https://twitter.com/emteehall/status/1645907176421224448
While I stand with the author, I also totally get where the publisher is coming from, especially based on the screenshot included with the tweet. I'm not saying I agree with the publisher! But I get it.
As a sidenote, I do my best to scrub any possible controversy from my own published work, definitely including any instances of the words "racism," "gender," and "violence." I've sometimes had to get really creative about this, to be honest. I also conceal a lot of things I want to say in hyperlinks to essays that other people have written. Clearly this isn't ideal, but I just wanted to point out that there can actually be a great deal of thought and consideration that goes into these sorts of cost-benefit analyses. That being said, sometimes publishers aren't as sensitive as they could be, which definitely seems to be the case in this particular instance.
