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Authorial Authenticity in the age of social media
In the world of publishing, particularly genre and YA, the tag #ownvoices was popular from 2015 to 2021. It was “a shorthand way to tell agents, editors, and readers that a manuscript’s diverse main characters were authentic and drawn from a creator’s lived experience” (Swanson, 2021). A writer with a disability writing a disabled character,
