Meg Collett wrote: "Hey Ksenia! Fellow indie here. I wanted to know your take on culture appropriation and diversity within literature, i.e., if there are some stories that we simply cannot tell because they do not belong to us. I would love to know your thoughts or if you've already put them into a blog that I might have missed. Love what you do and how you do it. High fives to you lady."
Hey Meg! Thank you for this wonderful question. I did blog on diversity once, and it yanked me out of my ignorance and sparked a heated conversation, which was a good blow to my head to realize the sordid state of acceptance in America, regardless of your gender, race, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, class, disability, and so on. It tore the pink glasses off my face. You see, I came to America believing I have escaped a cesspool of human misery, but I was wrong. Our misery is everywhere, in every country.
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