A version of this was included in the RWNZ Heart to Heart in 2023.

Here’s and amended version of the original submission.

In 2018, I participated in a book anthology called Kiss Me: An Asian Hero Boxed Set. While many may take issue with a ‘white woman’ writing about an ‘Asian hero’, I want to point out that I wrote my hero as a mixed-race man who just happened to be Australian and while during the worst of  the backlash, we were vilified for ‘fetis...