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Posted on 07/17/2025 6:05:30 AM PDT by dynachrome
A poet said his career skyrocketed within the liberal literary scene by taking on minority personas to promote his work to publishers.
Aaron Barry, 29, of Vancouver, experienced the most success when he posed as writers with identities far from his own, even if the poems were blatantly 'trash.'
His reasoning behind the scheme was simple - to prove the poetry world is more concerned with writers' identities than the quality of their work.
'My thinking was that, if the industry - from small magazines to full-on publishing imprints - could get away with showing a clear preference toward certain groups and, in that same vein, a clear bias against other groups,' Barry began to DailyMail.com.
'Then there was nothing to say that such power couldn't be abused in the future, whether it be to adhere to shifting trends or politics, or to discriminate against additional demographics.
'Such treatment would leave writers in a state of peril and anxiety, forever having to look over their shoulders while navigating their careers.'
From 2023 to 2024, Barry had managed to fool 30 respected literary journals around the globe and got about 50 of his 'nonsensical' poems published.
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No boobies?
I often say I’m only the boss and owner because I have the ability to actually speak to normies, including the legal department.
The other engineers concur with this as truthful and logical and do not envy my abnormality.
Not nobody. No one.
That’s the exception that proves the rule.
When we’re right, we’re right...
Fair point.
Could I get this one published?
Fragmented Echoes
Shatter/normative constructs,
binary shards bleed privilege.
Decenter the gaze—
whiteness splinters in polyvocal static.
Language frays,
threads of hegemony unravel,
knotting in queer interstices.
Trigger warnings bloom like bruises,
safe spaces collapse into paradox.
Performative allyship stutters,
authenticity drowned in neoliberal noise.
Yet, resistance hums—
a deconstructed hymn,
syllables of rage and love.
“Straight white author’s career finally takes off after he tells woke publishers he’s gender queer Nigerian”
i woulda sworn on a stack of Bibles that had to be a babylon bee headline ...
As a post-patriarchal polyamorous prairie furry.
He said, “’In the end, I hope people will see from this that there’s room for all types of writing and narratives in today’s literary world, if only we’d stop being so adversarial and moralistic about things.’”
Ha! FAT CHANCE!
Bfl
Having grown up in Vancouver, we were taught to refer to it as Vancouver, USA
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