{"id":197,"date":"2020-01-16T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calamitycast.com\/dotw\/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=197"},"modified":"2020-01-16T19:30:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T19:30:01","slug":"dotw-rwa-its-not-awesome","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/calamitycast.com\/dotw\/podcast\/dotw-rwa-its-not-awesome\/","title":{"rendered":"DotW: RWA- It&#8217;s Not Awesome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Okay team, the first half of this Dick of the Week is Liz and Stephanie playing catch up with each other and their lives and plans for 2020. The second half is us trying to tackle the big giant mess that is the RWA (Romance Writers of America). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the holidays were upon us, a big mess of racism and unfair treatment to historical romance writer Courtney Milan. Race issues unfortunately is not a new problem in the organization but shit really hit the fan and still going on. 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