Most were about her transphobia.”Īdichie writes in her essay that she was “very supportive of this writer”, because she believed that “we need a diverse range of African stories”. Last year, the non-binary transgender author Akwaeke Emezi tweeted that two days after their novel, Freshwater, was published, “ asked that her name be removed from my bio everywhere because of my tweets online. Quoting from emails sent at the time, Adichie’s essay recounts how she asked for her name to be removed from the book, detailing further attacks on social media and how “this person began a narrative that I had sabotaged their career”. Both later criticised her on social media for her comments about transgender people and feminism in a 2017 Channel 4 interview, saying “a trans woman is a trans woman”.Īt the time, Adichie rejected the claim that she did not believe trans women were women, saying: “Of course they are women but in talking about feminism and gender and all of that, it’s important for us to acknowledge the differences in experience of gender.”Īdichie was subsequently named in the author biography of the first novel by one of the writers. The essay goes into her interactions with two unnamed writers who attended Adichie’s Lagos writing workshop.
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