Those are interesting questions. Books with topics from currently contested discourse seem both low-hanging-fruit (good sell) and a risky terrain for the authors. Good for instagram today, maybe gone tomorrow.
Swimming in the rapidly changing currents of gender/race/class discourse is not easy.
I myself am hetero-male-white-genX with traditional east European upbringing - importance of family and all the rest. I have to admit that I often was disturbed by critique of patriarchy, the critique that ignored my contributions and saw how some of my friends drifted into the manosphere.
But I saw that things are much more complicated and luckily managed to escape their fate. Today I've realised that my recent bookshelf is predominantly female, including authors with fluid gender. Maybe we all just need a little more time.
It is not easy. And I'm not sure if it will ever be "fixed", or will be a continuous struggle toward which we make progress.
One of the theories as to why queer equality has progressed so much faster than race equality is that most people already knew someone who was queer, and so, queerness became acceptable rather than unknown. What I'm arguing for in my piece is to read literature that, rather than tells the reader what they already know or desire, instead introduces to the unknown, the not white, male, etc...which is the central idea behind my newsletter/blog.
Those are interesting questions. Books with topics from currently contested discourse seem both low-hanging-fruit (good sell) and a risky terrain for the authors. Good for instagram today, maybe gone tomorrow.
Swimming in the rapidly changing currents of gender/race/class discourse is not easy.
I myself am hetero-male-white-genX with traditional east European upbringing - importance of family and all the rest. I have to admit that I often was disturbed by critique of patriarchy, the critique that ignored my contributions and saw how some of my friends drifted into the manosphere.
But I saw that things are much more complicated and luckily managed to escape their fate. Today I've realised that my recent bookshelf is predominantly female, including authors with fluid gender. Maybe we all just need a little more time.
It is not easy. And I'm not sure if it will ever be "fixed", or will be a continuous struggle toward which we make progress.
One of the theories as to why queer equality has progressed so much faster than race equality is that most people already knew someone who was queer, and so, queerness became acceptable rather than unknown. What I'm arguing for in my piece is to read literature that, rather than tells the reader what they already know or desire, instead introduces to the unknown, the not white, male, etc...which is the central idea behind my newsletter/blog.