On diversity in the publishing industry, JK Rowling and echo chambers

[ChristinaXYZ]

"there is one area in which the political left appears to have an absolute clean sweep of the profession. In the book publishing industry 100% of respondents in the survey identify as being on the left, the sort of echo chamber that even academia can only look at with envy"

An essay on the publishing industry open letter that claims “transphobia is still perfectly acceptable in the British book industry”.

unherd.com/2021/05/publishing-is-now-a-leftist-bubble/

I still can't figure out who it is!

@FightingtheFoo

I still can't figure out who it is!

Google Kate Greenaway winners.

Dotty Detective.

Isn't the daughter an excellent example of your average, run of the mill, middle aged woman? Why is she so invested in queer theory claptrap?

A few seconds google and it is easy to work out. Just looked at the twitter. Ugh.

all of the authors are- its led by their children and their love for their children.
this makes it hard for friends/others to reject the ideology publicly because they think you are attacking their child.

It's also endemic in children's publishing generally. Which is deeply concerning.

@Helmetbymidnight

all of the authors are- its led by their children and their love for their children. this makes it hard for friends/others to reject the ideology publicly because they think you are attacking their child.

But when a parent builds such a public persona for herself on this platform, with all the 'likes' and adulation from the fashionable, it must make it even more difficult for a child to desist, should it wish to. It's like being one of those high-profile religious converts in the 2000s.

Thanks. I've never heard of either of the, but children who walk into a profession by riding their parents' coattails always get my back up. I hate nepotism.

A quick Google brought up this https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/17764/pdf/

That document makes for horrifying reading btw.

The utter cheek of writing this about a male bodied person when it is exactly what women fear is just too much:

"I would be frightened for my daughter if she could not access women-only spaces (for instance toilets and changing rooms): this would put her in the unacceptable position of either withdrawing from public spaces and life, or facing the potential dangers of men- only spaces."

And sets self against the spousal exit clause.

People should have the right to end relationships!

it must make it even more difficult for a child to desist, should it wish to.
Absolutely.

This article on the Bookseller letter is very powerful.
wildwomanwritingclub.wordpress.com/2021/05/05/on-transphobia-in-the-book-industry/
I don’t completely agree with all their points ( can’t get especially exercised about a trans woman being longlisted for the Women’s Prize) but in general I think it’s spot on. I am completely astonished that the children’s author Onjali Q Rauf has been attacked in this way. Her books, which I have read, are not only very readable but kind and inclusive. It is as the article says like a religious cult.