![]() “I feel like there’s such a push for publishing works where it’s about Black people dealing with trauma, and there’s an appetite to read that,” said Robinson. ![]() On Black literature and where representation gets tunnel vision: “I think it makes the reader… also not take themselves too seriously, and remember, ‘Oh right, I can have fun, and I can poke fun at myself, and I can poke fun at the things that I believe in, because I’m confident enough to know that it won’t rattle me,’” said Robinson. ![]() And even if I’m talking about something serious like performative allyship, or the decision to be voluntarily child-free, I want to talk about it in a way that’s not only accessible but that is not taking myself too seriously, and instead is sort of being like, ‘We’re all in this together, let’s talk about it.’” ![]() “One of the things that I love about language and about writing is that there are a lot of times where literature, in general, can just come off as so pretentious and so snobby, and so I always want to reject that. ![]()
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