I mostly read (hard) sci-fi written by straight white dudes, so the tweet on the screenshot made me feel a bit defensive. In the replies and qrts people are patting themselves on the back for reading marginalized fantasy writers exclusively and this "consumption as activism" seems rad-libby to me, but maybe I'm wrong.

  • crime [she/her, any]
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    3 years ago

    Helen Oyeyemi's What is Not Yours is Not Yours is one of my favorite books, it's litfic/magical realism in a bunch of interconnected short stories

    I also enjoyed Nnedi Okorafor's Akata Witch, which is more YA fantasy and is set in Nigeria