Honestly, at this point, it'd be a rather epic way to protest. Especially if folks working there get in on it, and just obstruct whenever he tries to sign anything. I just fear it'd result in them using firearms and harming those that tried.

Because I see nothing on their site that shows they won't fall prey to the biases that current entrench publishing and harm marginalized authors. This software just sounds like a great way to make it incredibly difficult for marginalized authors to get seen by agents or publishers. Gross as hell.

Honestly, it's not possible for Inkbloom to not be biased as hell against marginalized authors. Do they reveal in detail HOW they determine what is "promising" and "marketable?" Do they have failsafes to make sure the software doesn't discriminate against BIPOC, Disabled, and/or LGBTQIA authors?

I don't expect anyone to read this. I yell my story into the void. I lift up the stories of fellow marginalized. I cry out for justice, for access, for a way to connect and build up solidarity and hope among one another. To not cede valuable tools like masks to our oppressors.

Our stories matter.

We must choose to fight for the right to exist and thrive. Fight for access and justice.

We need to choose to save as many lives as we can, to value one another's lives as worthy of respect, care, and dignity. To hold fast to our identity and our cultures.

Otherwise, what are we fighting for?

When people within Leftist movements fail to normalize infectious disease mitigations, fail to mask up, fail with centering access needs, they inadvertently (whether they realize it or not) have given in to normalizing death and disablement.

So we need to interrogate that. We need to unpack that.

We choose to try to save as many lives as we could, so that others may thrive in the present and future.

They choose to give in and normalize death and disablement, sacrificing others for a past that is gone.

And that's why I won't shut up about this in resistance movements.