Aevee Bee’s 2016 piece “Against Representation” captured this well: “The marginalized who take risks in representing themselves must be taken seriously even when we do not agree, because the opinion of one of our own we disagree with is worth infinitely more than the bland asset of someone with no skin in the game.” The idea that queer creators need to moderate their stories to satisfy some abstract idea of “good representation” is unfortunately neither new, nor getting better.
