TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
0:28 What is What Went Wrong?
0:44 Who is Amelie Wen Zhao?
1:13 What is Blood Heir about?
2:19 What was the controversy?
3:40 Why I’m still uncomfortable with how people spoke to L.L. McKinney
4:40 Zhao’s explanation
5:53 You can disagree with someone without dismissing Black voices. (* To be clear, Zhao didn’t do this. It was people on Twitter.)
7:03 What are the qualifications for writing about a fictional marginalized group?
7:47 Zhao’s apology (And what actions were taken)
9:04 What can we learn from this?

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