The Guardian reports on a new study which has found that
The world of speculative fiction publishing is plagued by "structural, institutional, personal, universal" racism, according to a new report that found less than 2% of more than 2,000 SF stories published last year were by black writers.
The report, published by the magazine Fireside Fiction, states that just 38 of the 2,039 stories published in 63 magazines in 2015 were by black writers. With the bulk of the industry based in the US, more than half of all speculative fiction publications the report considered did not publish a single original story by a black author. "The probability that it is random chance that only 1.96% of published writers are black in a country where 13.2% of the population is black is 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000321%," says the report.
The editor of Fireside Fiction goes on to say...
"Fiction, we have a problem. We all know this. We do. We don't need numbers to see that, like everywhere in our society, marginalisation of black people is still a huge problem in publishing ... The entire system is built to benefit whiteness – and to ignore that is to bury your head in the flaming garbage heap of history."
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday August 13 2016, @10:28AM
Oh, you mean things that don't exist any more? Yeah, those totally have an effect on everyday life.
No, it does not. It takes a lot of missed sleep, a lot of ramen noodles, and a moderate amount of learning. That's tedious but not herculean. Absolutely anyone with a fully functional body and an IQ over 80 can do it.
I'll grant you it does help if you have at least a tiny bit of wisdom though. Like for example how every last car in front of the local low income housing is much nicer than mine and over half have huge ass aftermarket rims with ultra low profile tires. That's not hyperbole or even slight exaggeration. That, my cowardly friend, is what a toxic culture will do for you, teach you to put what should be savings into trivial bullshit because image maters more than getting to eat this month.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.