SILVIA'S WORLD

But when you’re marginalized, it doesn’t work that way. Almost every book recommendation I’ve gotten from Tumblr has been problematic, and I don’t mean “there were some poor word choices” problematic. I mean “sends me spiraling into a deep depression” problematic. I mean “leaves me wondering why the world hates me so much” problematic. I mean “considers giving up reading, my greatest past time for most of my life because I’m afraid I’ll never find a book that doesn’t hate the very essence of who I am problematic”.

And then we ask you all to be kind in what you rec, to listen to people who are hurt, and not support the boos that are hurting us, and what do we get? We get told we’re bullies. We get told we’re censoring. We get told to kill ourselves. I’m not even sure why we question the way publishing and books treat us when people on this website prove that’s just how the general populace feels.

Look, you want to have fun reading? So do I, but I don’t have that privilege when most books don’t even consider me human. Wanting. To. Ignore. Problematic. Books. Is. A. Privilege. If you can’t see that, maybe you should consider why your comfort is more important than ours. You should consider why your ability to enjoy a book matters more than the fact that people will use what’s written in these books to justify our genocide. Look at that scale. Look at it again. Now ask yourself why you want me quiet?

Those two separate thoughts can co-exist, despite everyone on this hellsite wanting you to think that if you’re sick of quarantine and want it to be over already, it means you’re a fat ass capitalist who wants poor people to die. 

Humans are social creatures. We need proper interaction and we are not designed to be isolated from each other for long periods of time. It’s ok to be frustrated at not being able to interact with your friends and family, whilst also knowing that it’s necessary at the moment.