Top Tweets for #RethinkingDiversity
If any of you missed the #RethinkingDiversity event with us and @edbookfest - the YouTube video is now available to watch! Link in the tweet below!
For anyone who missed @edbookfest Business of Books event on: Rethinking 'Diversity' in Publishing, you can now watch it on our YouTube channel: https://t.co/SfkUuMntDV
and read more here https://t.co/CK2uTATt1u via @thebookseller
A brilliant panel with @Anamik1977, chaired by @epwa66 resulted in #rethinkingdiversity becoming one of the top #EdBookFest hashtags, as the industry was challenged to think about how publishing can make a real change for writers and readers of colour: https://t.co/TD6VpyvmqA
We are so excited to be joining @edbookfest this morning for the Rethinking 'Diversity': Lasting Change event as well as the wonderful speakers @epwa66, Margaret Busby, @CrystalMMorgan, @thisisbooklove & @Anamik1977 #RethinkingDiversity
Our #RethinkingDiversity event collab with @edbookfest yesterday was brilliant & you can now read a quick summary of some of the key points in this Bookseller article!
The recording will be available on the Book Fest YouTube soon & we’ll also publish a blog post summary end Aug
Publishing needs to move away from the "benign language of diversity" in favour of more "radical" solutions to ensure there is real change for writers and audiences of colour @Anamik1977 told @edbookfest audiences. Read more here: https://t.co/Xbv8XMNERt
Ahh! This is amazing! Check out this amazing article about the @edbookfest and @SYPScotland #RethinkingDiversity panel yesterday
Publishing needs to move away from the "benign language of diversity" in favour of more "radical" solutions to ensure there is real change for writers and audiences of colour @Anamik1977 told @edbookfest audiences. Read more here: https://t.co/Xbv8XMNERt
Publishing needs to move away from the "benign language of diversity" in favour of more "radical" solutions to ensure there is real change for writers and audiences of colour @Anamik1977 told @edbookfest audiences. Read more here: https://t.co/Xbv8XMNERt
A privilege to attend this powerful, inspiring event today courtesy of @SYPScotland and @edbookfest - #RethinkingDiversity beyond benign language and towards radical, ambitious action. Read the full thread for highlights!
We are so excited to be joining @edbookfest this morning for the Rethinking 'Diversity': Lasting Change event as well as the wonderful speakers @epwa66, Margaret Busby, @CrystalMMorgan, @thisisbooklove & @Anamik1977 #RethinkingDiversity
This conversation can sound pessimistic at times but I love working with my community and giving children content that they cannot always find easily - @thisisbooklove #RethinkingDiversity
...why is there not more focus on internal changes so that publishing companies are not having to look outside themselves so that any issues are picked up at the start of the process - Margaret Busby #RethinkingDiversity
On sensitivity readers - Why are these conversations not happening within the publishing companies, why are they having to rely on people outside the company to do this... - Margaret Busby #RethinkingDiversity
Margaret Busby said "why these conversations are not going on within the industry? Why these conversations are not happening before the book get published?"
#RethinkingDiversity
@edbookfest @SYPScotland
#RethinkingDiversity panel. It is such an important discussion going on. All the brilliant panelists are bringing up do many interesting points.
#publishing @SYPScotland @edbookfest
Publishers are scared now because audiences can now talk back to them, and when their privilege is challenged it provokes a very defensive reaction and their use of sensitivity readers is a way of dealing with that fear factor - @Anamik1977 #RethinkingDiversity
On sensitivity readers - my worry sometimes is that whilst these readers are helpful it offloads the burden from the publisher to someone else - @CrystalMMorgan #RethinkingDiversity
Bookshops don't always speak to all communities, they can feel like alien spaces...(taking books into different spaces) it really breaks down those barriers and opens up the audience - @thisisbooklove #RethinkingDiversity
we can't always be the ones to tell the mainstream wider industry what to do, we cant do all the work ourselves. We have to be hopeful but we have to build on the lessons and try and see the action taken on them - Margaret Busby #RethinkingDiversity
lol 'if I'm not invited to your party, why ask me about it?' Margaret Busby. #RethinkingDiversity @edbookfest
the tension of having to engage in these conversations about diversity...I don't just want to be the 'diverse' bookseller...it can be at times be suffocating and harder than a white person in the same position - @thisisbooklove #RethinkingDiversity
@epwa66 asks tough question on cultural, moral & economic aspects of publishing
UK MNCs export books to rest of world cuz of Commonwealth Rights — there’s definitely market for ‘diverse’ writing. That’s what my #PhD research looks at
#RethinkingDiversity @edbookfest @SYPScotland
publishers articulate the moral case for diversity, the need for inclusion and to reflect the world... the challenge is to show that there is an economic value to books by writers of colour and that they enrich our lives by what they represent @Anamik1977 #RethinkingDiversity
We have to try and make sure that the industry doesn't do us a favour because what we are arguing for is that it is better for us all...lets make the countries literature more relevant and dynamic for everyone - Margaret Busby #RethinkingDiversity
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