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db2a9079 | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag 
 These past few days / weeks have made me REALLY glad that 24 years ago, I decided to write in English and try to get published in the USA. The casual  racism and bigotry I've seen and (in regard to the bigotry) experienced among an overwhelmingly white cishet German author bubble is something else.
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Hannah Steenbock | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @c48aa580 

Fortunately, I haven't experienced it that much myself (being a German author), but then, I decided to write fantasy in English, after giving up representation by a German literary agency.

Being part of an English-language bubble has made me more aware of racism and bigotry, strangely enough. 

And yes, it's quite prevalent here in Germany. Very sad to see. We could know better...