Re: Amber's character. Please don't feel you have to rewrite the character just because you think you should. Seriously. Have a sensitivity reader give it a once over, because you might change things that are okay and overlook stuff that you might not think is not okay. There are groups on Facebook (Multicultural GLBTQ Literature is one) where you can have an open discussion about this stuff and get some really good advice. TBH when I asked the question about using the term "colored", all the POC were actually cool with it because they understood the historical relevance and that genuine representation is important. It was the non-POC people who thought I should put a disclaimer in the front of the book, or change it (I include myself in that group btw). So until you've had someone actually read the character in its context, I would just write it the way your character is asking to be written. The fact that you're not oblivious to these issues, that you've researched and are a general good egg is half the battle, Hun.
Also I was thinking about the difference between writing about and write as... I heard a great explanation of the difference between MM romance and gay romance. Gay romance being about the experience of being gay and MM being a romance where the protagonists happen to be gay. Anyway... ♥
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Re: Amber's character. Please don't feel you have to rewrite the character just because you think you should. Seriously. Have a sensitivity reader give it a once over, because you might change things that are okay and overlook stuff that you might not think is not okay. There are groups on Facebook (Multicultural GLBTQ Literature is one) where you can have an open discussion about this stuff and get some really good advice.
TBH when I asked the question about using the term "colored", all the POC were actually cool with it because they understood the historical relevance and that genuine representation is important. It was the non-POC people who thought I should put a disclaimer in the front of the book, or change it (I include myself in that group btw). So until you've had someone actually read the character in its context, I would just write it the way your character is asking to be written. The fact that you're not oblivious to these issues, that you've researched and are a general good egg is half the battle, Hun.
Also I was thinking about the difference between writing about and write as... I heard a great explanation of the difference between MM romance and gay romance. Gay romance being about the experience of being gay and MM being a romance where the protagonists happen to be gay. Anyway... ♥