I'm just popping on here to say hello to everybody, and to acknowledge the importance of what is going on in America (and globally) right now. What is happening is the climax of years and decades and centuries of oppression, with people finally refusing to take injustice for an answer. Now, more than ever, the voices of POC everywhere must be listened to.
So listen to them. Find their stories and read them and talk about them and lift them up. I'm so grateful that I wrote the Bronze stories when I did, because it has a lot of representation in them, and that is something we very much need nowadays, but my personal voice is white. I can tell stories about POC, but I can't tell stories about *being* a POC. There's a huge difference. So yes, read stories, and write stories, that have diversity in them, but also look into stories produced by POC. These are important. Read them, celebrate them, and most importantly, fight for their right to speak. This is bigger than all of us.