Is the Hashtag Being Used to Police and Pressure Marginalized Authors?

The hashtag is regularly weaponized against marginalized authors. I've seen this happen along pretty much every imaginable access of marginalization and I absolutely hate that hashtag that's supposed to uplift marginalized authors is being used to police and pressure them. Sometimes it forces authors to have to up themselves in terms of certain things. So again like sometimes authors don't want to come out as being bisexual or sometimes they don't wants to tell everyone that this is something they went through when they were younger too.

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