This post (or at least my discovery of it) was quite timely. I've been rather exhausted by having conversations of "I'm not saying you shouldn't write it just because you don't experience it, but that doesn't make you immune to criticism" lately, plus I'm setting myself up for intense scrutiny in a story I'm about to tackle, because even though I belong under the umbrella I'm writing about, the experience is a hugely touchy subject, even among those of us experiencing it.

Anyway, you don't know me, so that probably doesn't matter a lot to you *grin*, but thank you for the post, and I've passed it along to some other writers who care about writing about oppressed groups they don't belong to. Thank you for a well-said post.