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Colette ~ she / her, founder of WritingWithColor
Hey! I’m Colette Aburime, early 30s, and maybe a little too much into magic-realism, fairy tales, historical romance, and fantasy. Women’s fiction is my focus and I love exploring themes of self-discovery, self-love and romance, particularly interracial romance.
I’m Black and from the Midwest USA with experience in Black culture, Black female experience, PoC in predominantly white towns, American racism, eurocentric beauty standards and intersectional feminism.
I founded this blog because I want to help all writers who aim to write diversely and do it well, plus to form a resource for BIPOC writing information. This blog may not have all the answers or be the final word in your writing, though we hope it’ll somehow help it along!
For professional inquiries, search me on linkedin!
Alice ~ she/they
Hi there! I’m Alice, 30s and of mixed race (Black/white). Due to being born and raised in the Netherlands I’m familiar with Dutch racism and POC living in predominantly white environments, while other factors have made me experienced and/or knowledgable in feminism, sexuality, neurodiversity and interracial relationships.
I absolutely love speculative fiction and it is most of what I read and write. Especially creative and non-stereotypical fantasy, science-fiction, science fantasy and biopunk with complex, psychological and philosophical stories with heavy themes intrigue me.
Writing With Color is important to me, because throughout my life I’ve sorely missed faces like mine, and non-white faces in general in all forms of the media. I’d like to help anyone who wants to enrich their stories with characters who defy the stereotypical depiction of white, able-bodied, neurotypical, cishet man and to do so respectfully.
Jessica ~ she/her
Hi! I’m Jess, 30s, Chinese-Taiwanese-American and living in the Midwest. I write mostly SFF, though I love reading historical fiction and contemporary lit as well. Most of my writing features Asian protagonists either coming of age and/or going on adventures. My experiences lie in growing up Asian-American in the Midwest (from 1980s-2000s), along with Chinese culture, and having been to Taiwan on and off..
Lesya ~ they/she/he
Hello and welcome! I’m Lesya of the Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) and Wyandot (Huron) in Canada who only discovered my roots/got adopted back into the tribe in my 20s thanks to generations-old assimilation. A 20-something white passing individual who’s spent her whole life navigating a world of in betweens and wants to see more queer PoC on bookshelves. Best described as “spiritual”. I took a year of anthropology for the sole purpose of learning more effective researching, which was the main catalyst for connecting with the Native community.
I write primarily non-European fantasy and I spend far too much time analyzing everything literary, with a tendency to speak in TV Tropes. My specialty is breaking apart real world cultures and adapting them to fantasy worlds, along with researching to get society right. I’m still learning about my own culture but have a general knowledge about Canadian Natives, especially around the Great Lakes/Quebec region, with a touch of knowledge about Plains and costal Natives. Firm believer in Idle No More.
My tumblr: tropesaretools.tumblr.com/
Shira ~ she / her
Hallo! I’m Shira (she/her; cis, bisexual), shiraglassman.tumblr.com. I’m an Xennial freelance violinist and the author of fluffy queer Jewish fiction such as Knit One Girl Two, the superhero romance Cinnamon Blade: Knife in Shining Armor, and the Mangoverse fantasy series.
I’m ethnically Ashkenazi, descended half from the Eastern European to NYC wave of immigrants at the turn of the 20th century and half from Holocaust refugees from Germany. I’m Reform Jewish and very involved in my local synagogue.
My writing interests lay mostly in showing the importance of all types of connections between women – romantic, sisterly, motherly, friendship, leaders – and the everyday magic of “family of choice.” Oh, yeah, and dragons.