[queer lit, transmisogyny, and people who screw over their own for personal gain] patiently watches the development of an ongoing fucktrip

so, to explain the current shitshow, we need to talk about a past clusterfuck, for those who don't know it

This article goes indepth on what happened to one Isabel Fall, and the afteraffects

A sci-fi writer got meta about gender. The internet ...

but tldr - an author writes a scifi story about gender by twisting the ol' bullshit "identify as a helicopter" meme on its head, but as the story gets to be more known, more people start handwringing on

"but what if it was written by a CIS PERSON MOCKING US"

this is especially true of people who do not even read the story to see the careful care and thought that went into it. but the thing is that the author has little to no info about herself, and so people can't tell if she's trans or not, and clearly that is The Most Important Info to have

.............so quite a few people decide to start a harassment campaign so intense that it makes the author suicidal, and not go any further as "Isbael Fall"

I... geez, I can almost understand this? If you get punched in the face too many times you're liable to be wary of an outstretched hand-

NEVER MIND

Clearly I spoke too soon.

YEAH

YEAH.....

anyway. so one of the people who basically spearheaded this Absolute Fuckery was a nonbinary writer by the name of Neon Yang

There were a couple of names who also went heavy into the harassment. Notably, only one of these people even tried to give even a piss poor apology for what they did to a trans woman. Neon Yang wasn't that person.

~cut to the present time~

So there's a group called Neon Hemlock Press that's going to do a queer anthology series involving scifi, and robots. Sounds cool and interesting! Everyone wants more cool queer shit to do with robots.

This isn't a bad thing, and apparently Neon Hemlock has released good stuff in the past.

The problem arises when they do their little writer reveal of the nine people who are going to be involved in the anthology

Because one of them is Neon fucking Yang

again, the person who screwed over another trans writer who wrote a queer scifi story

So needless to say, people are kind of pissed at the gall of that move

and I'm just sitting here waiting to see what hemlock's move is

anyway, i really recommend reading the article to really take in the tragedy of isabel fall

Oh right, thing I forgot to mention -
But Neon Yang once wrote a thread on bullshit fauxpologies, right? That kind of "but both sides" nonsense.

Guess who tried to give a shitty fauxpology that hit every single one of the notes they'd mocked, and threw a fit when people pointed this out?

i think they also misgendered Isabel Fall - all "they", no "she"

thats so gross all of that

Every time I hear stories about harassment I get so exhausted thinking of all that wasted energy.