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On Diversity and Reading: Amplifying BIPOC Authors and Voices
This post was also posted on my original blog, Reading Diversely. If you are here because of that, please consider subscribing for more updates. When I started the “Reading Diversely” book project in 2017, I was frustrated and I was aware that the “mainstream” books that received marketing money and were likely to be recommended and receive awards most often were dominated by white men. I wasn’t angry. Yet. Over the course of that year, I fell back in love with reading, but I also became increasingly aware that the problem was so much broader and so much more pervasive than I had realized. I was shocked by the number…
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Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019
I promise that at some point I will start actually posting about the books I am reading, but with so many awards out at the moment (and so many of the awards going to authors of color), I feel like this is important too! The shortlist for the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction was actually amazing – every book I have read off this list was great! Shortlist The Silence of Girls by Pat Barker – “There was a woman at the heart of the Trojan war whose voice has been silent – till now. Briseis was a queen until her city was destroyed. Now she is slave to Achilles,…
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