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Who the fuck has midnight calls except vampires?
February 4, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Who the fuck has midnight calls except vampires?
This is an Order 66 level event, but instead of Jedi, it’s the civil servants who make the government work for the people that are being eradicated.
February 3, 2025 at 9:13 PM
This is an Order 66 level event, but instead of Jedi, it’s the civil servants who make the government work for the people that are being eradicated.
Inclusive language is only ever a burden if you see inclusivity as a burden.
February 3, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Inclusive language is only ever a burden if you see inclusivity as a burden.
What comes after that, the truly transformative stuff, is science fiction waiting to be written into reality, because we’ve never seen a truly equitable system in practice.
But we can take some solace in the fact that a more just world is not, ultimately, impossible.
But we can take some solace in the fact that a more just world is not, ultimately, impossible.
February 2, 2025 at 4:15 AM
What comes after that, the truly transformative stuff, is science fiction waiting to be written into reality, because we’ve never seen a truly equitable system in practice.
But we can take some solace in the fact that a more just world is not, ultimately, impossible.
But we can take some solace in the fact that a more just world is not, ultimately, impossible.
Supporting diversity with our voices and our wallets is the first step.
More Black bestsellers means more Black editors and more chances taken on Black stories and more equity in the boardrooms of publishing houses, more movie adaptations, more kids seeing diversity in every facet of media.
More Black bestsellers means more Black editors and more chances taken on Black stories and more equity in the boardrooms of publishing houses, more movie adaptations, more kids seeing diversity in every facet of media.
February 2, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Supporting diversity with our voices and our wallets is the first step.
More Black bestsellers means more Black editors and more chances taken on Black stories and more equity in the boardrooms of publishing houses, more movie adaptations, more kids seeing diversity in every facet of media.
More Black bestsellers means more Black editors and more chances taken on Black stories and more equity in the boardrooms of publishing houses, more movie adaptations, more kids seeing diversity in every facet of media.
Bookstores need to demand, stock, and celebrate diverse books, too. Black sci-fi didn’t start and stop with Octavia Butler.
When booksellers put the energy out there for black stories, publishers feel the pressure to provide support to capitalize on the enthusiasm.
When booksellers put the energy out there for black stories, publishers feel the pressure to provide support to capitalize on the enthusiasm.
February 2, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Bookstores need to demand, stock, and celebrate diverse books, too. Black sci-fi didn’t start and stop with Octavia Butler.
When booksellers put the energy out there for black stories, publishers feel the pressure to provide support to capitalize on the enthusiasm.
When booksellers put the energy out there for black stories, publishers feel the pressure to provide support to capitalize on the enthusiasm.
In the short term, the best way to change the ship’s course is to show publishers that diverse books create trade winds strong enough to overcome political headwinds.
Readers must demand, buy, celebrate diverse books. Shopping at indies and getting recs from booksellers, instead of algorithms.
Readers must demand, buy, celebrate diverse books. Shopping at indies and getting recs from booksellers, instead of algorithms.
February 2, 2025 at 4:15 AM
In the short term, the best way to change the ship’s course is to show publishers that diverse books create trade winds strong enough to overcome political headwinds.
Readers must demand, buy, celebrate diverse books. Shopping at indies and getting recs from booksellers, instead of algorithms.
Readers must demand, buy, celebrate diverse books. Shopping at indies and getting recs from booksellers, instead of algorithms.
Now, like in 1981, there is a cultural backlash to progress which conservatives have turned into a political scythe, reaping their electoral victory.
So, what is a lover of diverse books to do? Are we doomed to the dark before us?
So, what is a lover of diverse books to do? Are we doomed to the dark before us?
February 2, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Now, like in 1981, there is a cultural backlash to progress which conservatives have turned into a political scythe, reaping their electoral victory.
So, what is a lover of diverse books to do? Are we doomed to the dark before us?
So, what is a lover of diverse books to do? Are we doomed to the dark before us?
Despite conservatives shouting that YOU (read: white men) are being victimized by DEI, not much has changed in the 44 years of “progress” between Reagan’s landslide and Trump’s marginal victory: white authors dominate the publishing industry.
That is not the fault of any one author or editor.
That is not the fault of any one author or editor.
February 2, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Despite conservatives shouting that YOU (read: white men) are being victimized by DEI, not much has changed in the 44 years of “progress” between Reagan’s landslide and Trump’s marginal victory: white authors dominate the publishing industry.
That is not the fault of any one author or editor.
That is not the fault of any one author or editor.
But because white stories are (incorrectly) seen as universal or race-neutral, you’ll never see whiteness (or masculinity) presented as “little more than fads and curiosities.”
February 2, 2025 at 4:15 AM
But because white stories are (incorrectly) seen as universal or race-neutral, you’ll never see whiteness (or masculinity) presented as “little more than fads and curiosities.”