Yes, Karen, there is racism in romance: M. Jane Colette’s formal-gone-uninhibited CaRWA & RWA Resignation Letter

Below is my formal resignation letter from the Board and Membership of the Calgary Association of Romance Writers of America (CaRWA), embedded in which is my intent of resignation from the national Romance Writers of America (RWA) organization. For context,

“You’re welcome here. So long as you don’t remind us, too often, ever, that you’re not one of us.”

Almost a month has passed since the national leadership of the Romance Writers of America punished Chinese American author Courtney Milan for calling, on Twitter, a white author’s book “a fucking racist mess.” The resulting outrage in Romancelandia, the peeling