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https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/r...h/news-story/c37499d569110700e0bca9f8915c93a7
Author Natasha Tynes may lose her book deal after one tweet caused a massive backlash
When an author posted this photo to Twitter from her commute, the backlash came in thick and fast. Now she looks set to lose everything.
Author Natasha Tynes looks set to lose her book deal after a tweet criticising a Metro employee for eating on the train sparked an online backlash.
Tynes, a Jordanian-American writer and World Bank employee in Washington, tweeted a photo showing the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority employee in uniform, eating on the Red Line.
“When you’re on your morning commute & see @wmata employee in UNIFORM eating on the train,” Tynes tweeted. “I thought we were not allowed to eat on the train. This is unacceptable. Hope @wmata responds.”
Within an hour, transit officials had responded thanking her for “catching” the employee eating and “helping” to “make sure all Metro employees are held accountable”.
Eating, drinking, smoking and littering is banned on Metro buses or trains and in stations.
Officials asked Tynes to confirm the time she was on the train, the direction she was headed and the line she was on.
The writer provided those details, adding: “Thank you for responding. Appreciate it.”
Social media users immediately slammed the self-described “minority writer” over the post, accusing her of publicly shaming a black woman.
It also sparked the viral hashtag #EatingWhileBlack.
Tynes apologised, deleted the tweet and later set her account to private so that only her followers could see her posts. Her website was also been taken down.
After the controversy, publishing house Rare Birds Books, which was set to distribute Tynes’ upcoming novel, They Called Me Wyatt, released a statement condemning the author and vowing not to publish the book.
“Rare Bird is aware that an author distributed by us, Natasha Tynes, and published by an imprint that is sub-distributed by us, California Coldblood, did something truly horrible today in tweeting a picture of a metro worker eating her breakfast on the train this morning and drawing attention to her employer.
“Black women face a constant barrage of this kind of inappropriate behaviour directed toward them and a constant policing of their bodies.
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/r...h/news-story/c37499d569110700e0bca9f8915c93a7
Author Natasha Tynes may lose her book deal after one tweet caused a massive backlash
When an author posted this photo to Twitter from her commute, the backlash came in thick and fast. Now she looks set to lose everything.
Author Natasha Tynes looks set to lose her book deal after a tweet criticising a Metro employee for eating on the train sparked an online backlash.
Tynes, a Jordanian-American writer and World Bank employee in Washington, tweeted a photo showing the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority employee in uniform, eating on the Red Line.
“When you’re on your morning commute & see @wmata employee in UNIFORM eating on the train,” Tynes tweeted. “I thought we were not allowed to eat on the train. This is unacceptable. Hope @wmata responds.”
Within an hour, transit officials had responded thanking her for “catching” the employee eating and “helping” to “make sure all Metro employees are held accountable”.
Eating, drinking, smoking and littering is banned on Metro buses or trains and in stations.
Officials asked Tynes to confirm the time she was on the train, the direction she was headed and the line she was on.
The writer provided those details, adding: “Thank you for responding. Appreciate it.”
Social media users immediately slammed the self-described “minority writer” over the post, accusing her of publicly shaming a black woman.
It also sparked the viral hashtag #EatingWhileBlack.
Tynes apologised, deleted the tweet and later set her account to private so that only her followers could see her posts. Her website was also been taken down.
After the controversy, publishing house Rare Birds Books, which was set to distribute Tynes’ upcoming novel, They Called Me Wyatt, released a statement condemning the author and vowing not to publish the book.
“Rare Bird is aware that an author distributed by us, Natasha Tynes, and published by an imprint that is sub-distributed by us, California Coldblood, did something truly horrible today in tweeting a picture of a metro worker eating her breakfast on the train this morning and drawing attention to her employer.
“Black women face a constant barrage of this kind of inappropriate behaviour directed toward them and a constant policing of their bodies.