I want to thank you for this post and your previous one with the panel wrap-up, both of which are amazing.
Re: #3, I feel like this is spot-on, and also I'm wondering if you think there is a connection in terms of the way the panel (reflecting a very prevalent perspective, I think) set up a divide between "bad" cultural appropriation and "good"/no cultural appropriation: (speaking in the NorAm context with which I am familiar) white writers who appropriate and do not proceed in such a blundering way as to set off the "bad" cultural appropriation warning bells are praised for being sensitive/embracing/"creative"/"brave"/good researchers, whereas non-white writers who assimilate aspects of cultures not their own into their work are seen more as "showing they have 'mainstream' appeal," if that. It strikes me that there is this sort of disproportionate reward/back-patting which in many cases gives white writers a gold star for doing stuff they should be doing anyway (like reflecting reality by including non-white characters) and which is expected as a matter of course of non-white writers and also reinforces the idea that we don't need to approach the concept of "good" versus "bad" cultural appropriations as problematic.
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Re: #3, I feel like this is spot-on, and also I'm wondering if you think there is a connection in terms of the way the panel (reflecting a very prevalent perspective, I think) set up a divide between "bad" cultural appropriation and "good"/no cultural appropriation: (speaking in the NorAm context with which I am familiar) white writers who appropriate and do not proceed in such a blundering way as to set off the "bad" cultural appropriation warning bells are praised for being sensitive/embracing/"creative"/"brave"/good researchers, whereas non-white writers who assimilate aspects of cultures not their own into their work are seen more as "showing they have 'mainstream' appeal," if that. It strikes me that there is this sort of disproportionate reward/back-patting which in many cases gives white writers a gold star for doing stuff they should be doing anyway (like reflecting reality by including non-white characters) and which is expected as a matter of course of non-white writers and also reinforces the idea that we don't need to approach the concept of "good" versus "bad" cultural appropriations as problematic.