Back in 2008, the particular corner of the interwebs that I inhabited exploded. It exploded over issues of diversity in television and fandom, and that was when 50books_poc started. And ever since then, I've been far more aware of what I'm reading, and the authorship of what I'm reading. And as horrible as 50books_poc eventually became, it's been incredibly important to the way that I read.
So.
Here I sit at the end of 2012, noticing how UN-diverse my reading has actually been. Despite my supposed attempts at diverse reading, when I finally get around to posting my relevant statistics, you'll see that I didn't really succeed.
In 2013 I want things to be different. I want to make sure that my reading is diverse, isn't just meant to be so. I never have much of an issue making sure I read female authors over male: as far back as I can remember I've read more women than men. But reading even close to equal numbers of non/other-than-white authors to white authors, and something around 20% queer authors to straight is something I'd like to be able to say I'd done at the end of this year. I don't know that I'll manage it (although between my Rainbow Reads challenge, plus intentionally choosing at least a couple of queer authors for the other challenges, I should be okay for 20% for the year if not more) but I want to try.
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