'My book has no men because I am trying to tell a story about why women matter. I know how easy it is erase something, or someone, that the world has been trained to believe never existed in the first place. I refuse to be erased.' ✊🏼 mathangiwrites
by Manu Joseph, the women are, at best, supporting characters—serving as mostly as love interests, sex workers or older female relatives. Many are so inconsequential that they aren’t even named.
I’m a South Asian woman, and my gender is at least partly why I am interested in telling stories about women—stories that are true to my experience and upbringing, featuring women and girls that I rarely see on the page. The lack of fully developed, central female characters in Indian fiction, and in fiction in general, is a direct result of the barriers women of color face in publishing., the most recent on record, indicates that of the U.S.
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